Fiorenzo Carpi | |
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Died | 21 May 1997
Rome, Italy | (aged 78)
Occupation | composer |
Fiorenzo Carpi (19 October 1918 – 21 May 1997) was an Italian composer and pianist, probably best known for the " Pinocchio" theme.
My 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]
Fiorenzo Carpi | |
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Born | |
Died | 21 May 1997
Rome, Italy | (aged 78)
Occupation | composer |
Fiorenzo Carpi (19 October 1918 – 21 May 1997) was an Italian composer and pianist, probably best known for the " Pinocchio" theme.
My 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]