Fiorenzo Carpi (19 October 1918 – 21 May 1997) was an Italian composer and pianist, probably best known for the "Pinocchio" theme.
Fiorenzo Carpi | |
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| Born | 19 October 1918 |
| Died | 21 May 1997 (aged 78) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | composer |
Biography
editMy theater ... is held together by the notes of Fiorenzo Carpi. Very often his music has give me, since the beginning or during the work, the inner "clarification" I needed, the lighting of an "everything" that I did not understand ..
Born in Milan as Fiorenzo Carpi De Resmini, in 1945 he graduated at the Milan Conservatory, pupil of Arrigo Pedrollo and Giorgio Federico Ghedini;[2][3] then he was a stable member of Piccolo Teatro di Milano since its founding (1947).[2][4] He also collaborated with the Nobel laureate playwright Dario Fo on all his plays between 1953 and 1967, then sporadically until Carpi's death in 1997.[5][6][7] Fo's 1997 play Il diavolo con le zinne (The Devil with Boobs) featured an homage to Carpi following his death.[8]
Carpi was a prolific film score composer, well known for his long collaboration with the director Luigi Comencini. In 1981 he won the David di Donatello for Best Score for Comencini's Voltati Eugenio.[9] He also composed numerous pop songs, television scores, commercial jingles, symphonic and chamber opera works.[2][3]
Selected filmography
edit- Fugitive in Trieste (1951)
- Zazie dans le Métro (1960)
- Leoni al sole (1961)
- A Very Private Affair (1962)
- Parigi o cara (1962)
- I cuori infranti (1963)
- I 4 tassisti (1963)
- Misunderstood (1966)
- Death on the Run (1967)
- Italian Secret Service (1968)
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)
- The Howl (1970)
- Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale (1970)
- Million Dollar Eel (1971)
- Without Family (1972)
- The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)
- A White Dress for Marialé (1972)
- Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
- Simona (1974)
- La Chair de l'orchidée (1975)
- The First Time on the Grass (1975)
- Salon Kitty (1976)
- Traffic Jam (1979)
- Voltati Eugenio (1980)
- Piso pisello (1981)
- The Wounded Man (1983)
- Cuori nella tormenta (1984)
- La Storia (1986)
- Italian Night (1987)
- Merry Christmas... Happy New Year (1989)
- The Amusements of Private Life (1990)
- The End Is Known (1993)
Further reading
edit- Mitchell, Tony (1999), Dario Fo: People's Court Jester (Updated and Expanded), London: Methuen, ISBN 0-413-73320-3.
References
edit- ^ "...Il mio teatro è tenuto insieme dalle note di Fiorenzo Carpi. Molto spesso la sua musica ha dato, all'inizio o durante il lavoro, la "chiarificazione" interna di cui avevo bisogno, l'illuminazione di un "tutto" che non riuscivo ad afferrare..", cited from the book Strehler dirige, Giancarlo Stampalia, Marsilio, 1997
- ^ a b c Silvio D'Amico. Enciclopedia dello spettacolo , Volume 3. Unedi-Unione editoriale, 1975.
- ^ a b Felice Cappa; Piero Gelli; Marco Mattarozzi. Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900. Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 1998.
- ^ Angelo Fortunato Formiggini. Chi è?. A.F. Formíggini, 1961.
- ^ Mitchell 1999, p. 57
- ^ Mitchell 1999, p. 146
- ^ Mitchell 1999, pp. 221–222
- ^ Mitchell 1999, pp. 227–229
- ^ Enrico Lancia (1998). I premi del cinema. Gremese Editore, 1998. ISBN 8877422211.
External links
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