{{Short description|Italian composer}} {{Infobox person |image = |imagesize = | name = Armando Fragna | birth_date = {{Birth date|1898|8|2|df=y}} | birth_place = Torre Annunziata, Naples | height = | death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1972|8|15|1898|8|2}} | death_place =Livorno | birth_name = | othername = | website = }}
'''Armando Fragna''' (2 August 1898 – 15 August 1972) was an Italian composer, conductor and musician.
== 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.<ref name=music>{{cite book|last=Eddy Anselmi|title=Festival di Sanremo: almanacco illustrato della canzone italiana|year=2009 |publisher=Panini Comics, 2009|isbn=978-8863462296}}</ref><ref name=Radio>{{cite book|last=Peppino Ortoleva, Barbara Scaramucci|title=Radio|year=2003 |publisher=Garzanti Libri, 2003|isbn=881150497X}}</ref> In 1930 he started a career as a film score composer.<ref name="music"/><ref name="Radio"/> In 1942 he entered EIAR as the conductor of its "Orchestra Nostrana".<ref name="Radio"/> He also composed several pop songs, and two of them entered the competition at the Sanremo Music Festival.<ref name="music"/> Among his most successful songs, "I pompieri di Viggiù" and "I cadetti di Guascogna".<ref name="music"/>
==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)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * {{IMDb name|0289589}} * [http://www.discogs.com/artist/Armando+Fragna Armando Fragna] at Discogs {{Authority control}}
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