Claudio Capponi is an Italian

Italy

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 film

Film

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 composer

Composer

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, music arranger, orchestrator, music producer and violist

Violist

-Notable violists:A* Julia Rebekka Adler * Sir Hugh Allen , conductor* Kris Allen * Johann Andreas Amon * Paul Angerer , composer* Steven Ansell * Atar Arad * Cecil Aronowitz...

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Biography

Capponi began his musical career at a young age and graduated from the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia in Rome, Italy, with high honours in piano

Piano

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, viola

Viola

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 and composition

Musical composition

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. He then became First Solo Violist in the most important Italian orchestras, including, among others, the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

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, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

Teatro dell'Opera di Roma

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, Teatro di San Carlo

Teatro di San Carlo

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 in Naples

Naples

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, with conductors such as Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein

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, Claudio Abbado

Claudio Abbado

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, Lorin Maazel

Lorin Maazel

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, Riccardo Muti

Riccardo Muti

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, Carlo Maria Giulini

Carlo Maria Giulini

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 and Giuseppe Sinopoli

Giuseppe Sinopoli

-Biography:Sinopoli was born in Venice, Italy, and later studied at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice under Ernesto Rubin de Cervin and at Darmstadt, including being mentored in composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen...

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An accomplished classical musician, he has also performed with chamber music ensembles such as I Musici, I Virtuosi di Roma, Complesso da camera di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra da camera di Santa Cecilia, Quartetto Filarmonico di Roma and has toured such music theatres as the Accademia Musicale Chigiana

Accademia Musicale Chigiana

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 in Siena

Siena

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 and the Mozarteum University of Salzburg, with soloists such as Mstislav Rostropovich

Mstislav Rostropovich

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 and Uto Ughi

Uto Ughi

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In Italy he has also taught at the Conservatorio di Roma, Pescara and Terni.

In the pop and rock world he has performed live with Angelo Branduardi

Angelo Branduardi

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, Riccardo Cocciante

Riccardo Cocciante

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, Richie Havens

Richie Havens

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 and Stephen Stills

Stephen Stills

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Capponi's credits as a film score

Film score

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 composer include Voices of Dissent by Carlo Nero

Carlo Nero

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, The Fever

The Fever (2004 film)

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 by Carlo Nero

Carlo Nero

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, produced by HBO Films

HBO Films

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, My House in Umbria

My House in Umbria

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 by Richard Loncraine

Richard Loncraine

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, produced by HBO Films

HBO Films

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, Jane Eyre

Jane Eyre (1996 film)

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 by Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

 (Miramax), Sparrow by Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

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 (CGG), Dio vede e provvede, a miniseries

Miniseries

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 by Enrico Oldoini and P. Costella (LuxVide), Va’ dove ti porta il cuore, by Cristina Comencini (Videa), La fine è nota by Cristina Comencini (RAI 2), Italia-Germania 4-3 by Andrea Barzini (RAI 2), Croce e delizia by Luciano De Crescenzo

Luciano De Crescenzo

Luciano De Crescenzo is an Italian writer, film actor, director and engineer.Born in Naples, he graduated in engineering and worked for IBM Italy until 1976, when he published the bestseller Così parlò Bellavista , a collection of facts and anecdotes about his city which sold 600,000 copies in...

 (Airoldi/DeDionisio), Toscana by Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

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 (produced by the Region of Tuscany), Cervellini fritti impanati by Maurizio Zaccaro

Maurizio Zaccaro

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 (IIF), La valle di pietra by Maurizio Zaccaro

Maurizio Zaccaro

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 (PentaFilm), L’Articolo 2 by Maurizio Zaccaro (ReteItalia/Mikado), E non se ne vogliono andare, miniseries by Giorgio Capitani

Giorgio Capitani

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 (Clesi), Ma se poi se ne vanno? miniseries by Giorgio Capitani

Giorgio Capitani

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, (Clesi).

His theatre career includes original music for Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....

's Sei personaggi in cerca d’autore.

Capponi is also a writer of music for commercials

Television advertisement

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, having scored the TV advertisements for Telecom Italia, Enel, Alfa Romeo etc.

Labels: Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon

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, EMI

EMI

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, Philips

Philips

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, Sony

Sony

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 and BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

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External links

• Claudio Capponi at the Internet Movie Database
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• Claudio Capponi's MySpace
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• Jane Eyre Soundrack on iTunes
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