- His occasional pseudonym "Viostel" was an anagram of his first name.
- He was an Italian composer, mostly of motion picture soundtracks.
- At the age of 14, he played in cruise ship bands, enabling him to meet Dave Brubeck.
- Cipriani attended the Santa Cecilia Conservatory starting at the age of 14.
- Though not raised with a strong musical upbringing, as a child Cipriani was fascinated by his church's organ. His priest gave Cipriani his first music lessons and encouraged the boy and his family.
- Cipriani's first soundtrack was for the Spaghetti Western The Bounty Killer (1966). This was followed by his more widely known score for The Stranger Returns (a 1967 film, also known by the alternate titles A Man, a Horse, a Gun and Shoot First, Laugh Last, starring Tony Anthony).
- In 2017 he took part in some chapters of the episodic docufilm "Diario Di Bordo, Inside the Outsider," promoted by international recording artist Veronica Vitale.
- The main theme of the movie La polizia sta a guardare (The Great Kidnapping) was recycled by Cipriani in 1977 for the score to Tentacoli. This track was brought to the public's attention again in 2007 when it was featured in Quentin Tarantino's Death Proof.
- Cipriani was also noted for his score of the 1979 film The Concorde Affair.
- Some of the themes from La polizia sta a guardare (1973) were also used by Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani in the soundtrack for their first feature Amer (2009).
- One of Cipriani's most famous scores would come about in 1973, the soundtrack for La polizia sta a guardare (The Great Kidnapping).
- In 2014 he released his original composition "Anonimo Veneziano" ("To Be the One You Love") with the voice of International Recording Artist Veronica Vitale.
- Cipriani became prolific in the Italian film world, eventually garnering a Nastro d'Argento for Best Score award for The Anonymous Venetian (1970).
- After his succes in 1967 Cipriani would go on to compose other Spaghetti Western scores and also began composing poliziottesco ( subgenre of crime and action films that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s) soundtracks.
- In a 2007 interview, Cipriani said that he had composed music for Pope John Paul II and was working with Pope Benedict XVI.
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