Francesco Zappa (album)

Francesco Zappa
Studio album by Frank Zappa
Released	November 21, 1984
Recorded	UMRK, February – April 1984
Genre	Chamber music, electronic
Length	37:29
Label	Barking Pumpkin
Producer	Frank Zappa
Frank Zappa chronology
Thing-Fish (1984) Francesco Zappa (1984) Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention (1985)

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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. 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 him in the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians and then researched his sheet music in the library at UC Berkeley. The two musicians are not related.^{[citation needed]}

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.

Track listing

All selections composed by Francesco Zappa and performed by Frank Zappa on the Synclavier.

Side one

1. "Opus I: No. 1 First Movement: Andante" – 3:32
2. "No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro con brio" – 1:27
3. "No. 2 1st Movement: Andantino" – 2:14
4. "No. 2 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso" – 2:04
5. "No. 3 1st Movement: Andantino" – 1:52
6. "No. 3 2nd Movement: Presto" – 1:50
7. "No. 4 1st Movement: Andante" – 2:20
8. "No. 4 2nd Movement: Allegro" – 3:04
9. "No. 5 2nd Movement: Minuetto grazioso" – 2:29
10. "No. 6 1st Movement: Largo" – 2:08
11. "No. 6 2nd Movement: Minuet" – 2:03

Side two

1. "Opus IV: No. 1 1st Movement: Andantino" – 2:47
2. "No. 1 2nd Movement: Allegro assai" – 2:02
3. "No. 2 2nd Movement: Allegro assai" – 1:20
4. "No. 3 1st Movement: Andante" – 2:24
5. "No. 3 2nd Movement: Tempo di minuetto" – 2:00
6. "No. 4 1st Movement: Minuetto" – 2:10

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