Armando Fragna
Italian composer
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Armando Fragna (2 August 1898 – 15 August 1972) was an Italian composer, conductor and musician.
Born2 August 1898
Died15 August 1972 (aged 74)
Armando Fragna | |
|---|---|
| Born | 2 August 1898 |
| Died | 15 August 1972 (aged 74) |
Life and career
Born in Torre Annunziata, Naples, at just 18 years old Fragna started a long collaboration with Ettore Petrolini as the score composer of his theatrical works.[1][2] In 1930 he started a career as a film score composer.[1][2] In 1942 he entered EIAR as the conductor of its "Orchestra Nostrana".[2] He also composed several pop songs, and two of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival.[1] Among his most successful songs, "I pompieri di Viggiù" and "I cadetti di Guascogna".[1]
Selected filmography
- The Haller Case (1933)
- Just Married (1934)
- The Little Schoolmistress (1934)
- Those Two (1935)
- The Phantom Gondola (1936)
- The Amnesiac (1936)
- The Castle Ball (1939)
- Red Tavern (1940)
- The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)
- Totò Tarzan (1950)
- The Count of Saint Elmo (1950)
- The Cadets of Gascony (1950)
- The Steamship Owner (1951)
- Toto the Third Man (1951)
- I'm the Capataz (1951)
- The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
- Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
- The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
- Deceit (1952)
- Sardinian Vendetta (1952)
- Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
- If You Won a Hundred Million (1953)