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{{Short description|Italian composer and scholar}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date|2 October 1935}}
| birth_place =  [[Nuoro]], Italy
| death_date =   {{Death-date and age|14 January 2016|2 October 1935}}
| death_place =  [[Cagliari]], Italy
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'''Franco Oppo''' (2 October 1935 – 14 January 2016) was an Italian composer and scholar.
Born in [[Nuoro]], Oppo studied at the Conservatory of [[Cagliari]], graduating in piano (1958), choral music and choral conducting (1960), and composition (1961).<ref name=bio>{{cite news|last1=Francesca Figus|title=Musica sarda in lutto: è morto a 80 anni il compositore Franco Oppo|url=http://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/spettacoli/2016/01/14/musica_sarda_in_lutto_morto_a_80_anni_il_compositore_franco_oppo-7-457781.html|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[L'Unione Sarda]]|date=14 January 2016|archive-date=19 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160119005744/http://www.unionesarda.it/articolo/spettacoli/2016/01/14/musica_sarda_in_lutto_morto_a_80_anni_il_compositore_franco_oppo-7-457781.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> Since 1965 he won several  international composition competitions.<ref name="bio"/> He was professor of composition and experimental composition at the Conservatory of Cagliari and professor of music theory at the [[Cagliari University]].<ref name=Treccani>{{cite news|title=Òppo, Franco|url=http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/franco-oppo/|accessdate=20 January 2016|work=[[Treccani]]|publisher=Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana}}</ref>
Oppo published various studies and essays, particularly about [[music semiology]]  and [[ethnic music]].<ref name="bio"/> His studies mainly focused on [[aleatoric music]] and on testing new types of [[notation]].<ref name="Treccani"/>
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[[Category:People from Nuoro]]
[[Category:Italian composers]]
[[Category:Italian essayists]]
[[Category:Italian male essayists]]
[[Category:Academic staff of the University of Cagliari]]
[[Category:Italian male non-fiction writers]]
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