Francesco ‘Franco’ Tamponi was born in Modane Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France on January 18, 1928. He was an violinist, conductor, arranger and composer of film music. Franco began studying the violin at the age of 5, graduating from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory at the age of 17 with honors, later achieving the same score in the violin and chamber music specialization courses.
In 1944 he won an audition at Rai which entrusted him with a series of "live" broadcasts crowned by a concert by Paganini with the symphony orchestra conducted by a very young Carlo Maria Giulini.
Since then for many years he carried out an intense solo and was active in chamber music; in 1954 he won the competition for the chair of ensemble music and quartet (an activity that lasted 40 years, 30 of which at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory) and had the merit, among other things, of being one of the founders of the I Musici ensemble with which he plays in the most important concert venues in the world.
Since 1947 he had been a member of the SIAE and had been a full member since 1970.
His son Carlo Tamponi, who graduated in flute, also at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, is the Principal Flute of the National Orchestra of Santa Cecilia.
Franco Tamponi worked on two Spaghetti westerns: “For a Few Dollars More” in 1965 as a musician and he was the orchestra conductor for the score for Tomas Milian’s “They Call Me Providence” in 1972.
TAMPONI, Franco (aka
Francesco Valgrande) (Francesco Tamponi) [1/18/1928, Modane, Savoie,
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France – 12/30/2010, Modane, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes]
– violin, married to ? father of musician Carlo Tamponi, he founded I Musici.
For a Few Dollars
More – 1965 [musician]
They Call Me
Providence – 1972 [orchestra conductor]
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