Artist: FRANK ZAPPA
Album: FRANCESCO ZAPPA RE-ISSUE (CD)

Release date: 1984/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 0824302387221
Media type: CD

Francesco Zappa is a 1984 album by Frank Zappa. It features chamber music by the Italian composer Francesco Zappa, who composed between 1763 and 1788. This is Official Release #42.

David Ocker played a piece of Francesco Zappa's music for Frank Zappa because it was popular with some college music students. Because Francesco Zappa's music was not published and could only be found in the Mormon library, Frank Zappa decided to publish it. He then decided to program some of these pieces into his new Synclavier synthesizer.

Frank Zappa found an entry for Francesco Zappa in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and then researched his sheet music in the library at UC Berkeley. According to The Real Frank Zappa Book, the two musicians are not related.

Francesco Zappa was the first album that Frank Zappa used the Synclavier on, but it was not the first one he released, as synclavier pieces performed by him appear on "The Perfect Stranger" and on "Thing-Fish" as well.

All selections composed by Francesco Zappa

TRACKLIST:

1.     "Opus I: No. 1 First Movement: Andante"       3:32
2.     "Opus I: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro con brio"       1:27
3.     "Opus I: No. 2 1st Movement: Andantino"       2:14
4.     "Opus I: No. 2 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso"       2:04
5.     "Opus I: No. 3 1st Movement: Andantino"       1:52
6.     "Opus I: No. 3 2nd Movement: Presto"       1:50
7.     "Opus I: No. 4 1st Movement: Andante"       2:20
8.     "Opus I: No. 4 2nd Movement: Allegro"       3:04

9.     "Opus I: No. 5 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso"       2:29
10.     "Opus I: No. 6 1st Movement: Largo"       2:08
11.     "Opus I: No. 6 2nd Movement: Minuet"       2:03
12.     "Opus IV: No. 1 1st Movement: Andantino"       2:47
13.     "Opus IV: No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro assai"       2:02
14.     "Opus IV: No. 2 2nd Movement: Allegro assai"       1:20
15.     "Opus IV: No. 3 1st Movement: Andante"       2:24
16.     "Opus IV: No. 3 2nd Movement: Tempo di minuetto"       2:00
17.     "Opus IV: No. 4 1st Movement: Minuetto"       2:10

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Performed by The Barking Pumpkin Digital Gratification Consort (Frank Zappa, conductor)
Produced and orchestrated by Frank Zappa