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Name
  
Armando Fragna

Role
  
Composer

Movies
  
I cadetti di Guascogna


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Born
  
2 August 1898 (
1898-08-02
)
Torre Annunziata, Naples

Died
  
August 15, 1972, Livorno, Italy

Music director
  
The Firemen of Viggiu, Toto Tarzan, I cadetti di Guascogna, Papa Pacifico, Toto sceicco

Similar People
  
Vittorio Metz, Nino Rastelli, Cesare Andrea Bixio, Marcello Marchesi, Mario Mattoli

Armando fragna un uomo un mito


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. In 1930 he started a career as a film score composer. In 1942 he entered EIAR as the conductor of its "Orchestra Nostrana". He also composed several pop songs, and two of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival. Among his most successful songs, "I pompieri di Viggiù" and "I cadetti di Guascogna".

Selected filmography

  • The Haller Case (1933)
  • Those Two (1935)
  • The Phantom Gondola (1936)
  • 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)

    • References

    Armando Fragna Wikipedia
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