Armando Fragna
Armando Fragna (2 August 1898 – 15 August 1972) was an Italian composer, conductor and musician.
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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)
- 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)
- Il padrone del vapore (1951)
- Toto the Third Man (1951)
- The Ungrateful Heart (1951)
- Accidents to the Taxes!! (1951)
- The Piano Tuner Has Arrived (1952)
- Inganno (1952)
- Ivan, Son of the White Devil (1953)
- If You Won a Hundred Million (1953)
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References
- Eddy Anselmi. Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana. Panini Comics, 2009. ISBN 8863462291.
- Peppino Ortoleva, Barbara Scaramucci. Radio. Garzanti Libri, 2003. ISBN 881150497X.
External links
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