Mantovani, the Glossary
Annunzio Paolo Mantovani (15 November 1905 – 30 March 1980) was an Italian British conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature.[1]
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98 relations: A Heart Full of Music, Adult Contemporary (chart), Andrew Lloyd Webber, Around the World (1956 song), Arturo Toscanini, BBC, BBC Bitesize, Billboard Hot 100, Birmingham, Brian May, British dance band, British Hit Singles & Albums, Broadcast syndication, Camptown Races, Cara Mia, Cascading strings, Cats (musical), Charade (1963 song), Charmaine (song), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song), Christmas Carols (Mantovani album), Colin Larkin, Come prima, Composer, Concertmaster, Conducting, David McCallum, David McCallum Sr., David Whitfield, Decca Records, Don Black (lyricist), Echo, Elizabethan Serenade, Fascination (1905 song), French Without Tears (film), Games That Lovers Play (song), George Martin, Guinness World Records, Guitars of Love, High fidelity, Hit song, I Could Have Danced All Night, I Left My Heart in San Francisco, It Happened in Monterey, Italians in the United Kingdom, J. B. Fagan, Kent, La cumparsita, La Scala, Lara's Theme, ... Expand index (48 more) »
- Dance band bandleaders
- Entertainments National Service Association personnel
- Italian classical musicians
- Italian light music composers
A Heart Full of Music
A Heart Full of Music (German: Ein Herz voll Musik) is a 1955 West German musical romantic comedy film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring Vico Torriani, Ina Halley and Ruth Stephan.
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Adult Contemporary (chart)
The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber, (born 22 March 1948) is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre.
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Around the World (1956 song)
"Around the World" is the theme tune from the 1956 movie Around the World in 80 Days.
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Arturo Toscanini
Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor. Mantovani and Arturo Toscanini are 20th-century Italian conductors (music), 20th-century Italian male musicians and Italian male conductors (music).
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BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
BBC Bitesize
BBC Bitesize, also abbreviated to Bitesize, is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the United Kingdom.
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Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands in England.
Brian May
Sir Brian Harold May (born 19 July 1947) is an English musician, songwriter, record producer, animal rights activist and astrophysicist.
British dance band
British dance band is a genre of popular jazz and dance music that developed in British dance halls and hotel ballrooms during the 1920s and 1930s, often called a Golden Age of British music, prior to the Second World War. Mantovani and British dance band are dance band bandleaders.
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British Hit Singles & Albums
British Hit Singles & Albums (originally known as The Guinness Book of British Hit Singles and The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums) was a music reference book originally published in the United Kingdom by the publishing arm of the Guinness breweries, Guinness Superlatives.
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Broadcast syndication
Broadcast syndication is the practice of content owners leasing the right to broadcast television shows or radio programs to multiple television stations or radio stations, without having an official broadcast network to air on.
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Camptown Races
"De Camptown Races" or "Gwine to Run All Night" (nowadays popularly known as "Camptown Races") is a minstrel song by American Romantic composer Stephen Foster.
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Cara Mia
"Cara Mia" is a popular song published in 1954 that became a UK number 1, and US number 10 hit and Gold record for English singer David Whitfield in 1954, and a number 4 hit for the American rock group Jay and the Americans in 1965.
Cascading strings
Cascading strings (also sometimes known as "tumbling strings") is an arrangement technique of British light music.
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Cats (musical)
Cats is a sung-through musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Charade (1963 song)
"Charade" is a Parisian waltz with music by Henry Mancini and lyrics by Johnny Mercer performed in the 1963 film of the same name starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn.
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Charmaine (song)
"Charmaine" is a popular song written by Ernö Rapée and Lew Pollack.
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (song)
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" is an Academy Award-nominated song from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the 1968 musical motion picture.
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Christmas Carols (Mantovani album)
Christmas Carols is an album of Christmas music by Mantovani and His Orchestra.
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Colin Larkin
Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.
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Come prima
"Come prima" (English: "As Before") is an Italian song, with lyrics by Mario Panzeri and music by Vincenzo Di Paola and Sandro Taccani.
Composer
A composer is a person who writes music.
Concertmaster
The concertmaster (from the German Konzertmeister), first chair (U.S.) or leader (U.K.) is the principal first violin player in an orchestra (clarinet or oboe in a concert band).
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Conducting
Conducting is the art of directing a musical performance, such as an orchestral or choral concert.
David McCallum
David Keith McCallum (19 September 1933 – 25 September 2023) was a Scottish actor and musician, based in the United States.
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David McCallum Sr.
David Fotheringham McCallum (26 March 1897 – 21 March 1972) was the Scottish leader (principal first violinist) of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Scottish National Orchestra.
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David Whitfield
David Whitfield (2 February 1925 – 15 January 1980) was a popular British male tenor vocalist from Hull.
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Decca Records
Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis.
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Don Black (lyricist)
Donald Blackstone (born 21 June 1938), known professionally as Don Black, is an English lyricist.
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Echo
In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound that arrives at the listener with a delay after the direct sound.
Elizabethan Serenade
Elizabethan Serenade is a light music composition by Ronald Binge.
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Fascination (1905 song)
"Fascination" is a popular waltz song with music (1904) by Fermo Dante Marchetti and lyrics (1905) by Maurice de Féraudy.
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French Without Tears (film)
French Without Tears is a 1939 British comedy film directed by Anthony Asquith and starring Ray Milland.
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Games That Lovers Play (song)
"Games That Lovers Play" is a popular song composed by James Last which became a hit for multiple artists in 1966 and 1967.
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George Martin
Sir George Henry Martin (3 January 1926 – 8 March 2016) was an English record producer, arranger, composer, conductor, and musician.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Guitars of Love
Guitars of Love (Gitarren der Liebe) is a 1954 West German musical film directed by Werner Jacobs and starring Vico Torriani, Elma Karlowa and Harald Juhnke.
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High fidelity
High fidelity (often shortened to Hi-Fi or HiFi) is the high-quality reproduction of sound.
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Hit song
A hit song, also known as a hit record, hit single or simply hit, is a recorded song or instrumental that becomes broadly popular or well-known.
I Could Have Danced All Night
"I Could Have Danced All Night" is a song from the musical My Fair Lady, with music written by Frederick Loewe and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, InternetBroadwayDatabase, accessed August 23, 2011 published in 1956.
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I Left My Heart in San Francisco
"I Left My Heart in San Francisco" is a popular song, best known as the signature song of Tony Bennett.
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It Happened in Monterey
"It Happened in Monterey" or "It Happened in Monterrey" is a 1930 song composed by Mabel Wayne, with lyrics by Billy Rose and performed by Paul Whiteman and his orchestra.
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Italians in the United Kingdom
Italians in the United Kingdom, also known as Italian Brits (italo-britannici) are citizens and/or residents of the United Kingdom who are fully or partially of Italian descent, whose ancestors were Italians who emigrated to the United Kingdom during the Italian diaspora.
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J. B. Fagan
James Bernard Fagan (18 May 1873 – 17 February 1933) was an Irish-born actor, theatre manager, producer and playwright active in England.
Kent
Kent is a county in the South East England region, the closest county to continental Europe.
La cumparsita
"La cumparsita" (little street procession, a grammatical diminutive of la comparsa) is a tango written in 1916 by the Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodríguez, with lyrics by Argentines Pascual Contursi and.
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La Scala
La Scala (officially italics) is a historic opera house in Milan, Italy.
Lara's Theme
"Lara's Theme" is the name given to a leitmotif written for the 1965 film Doctor Zhivago by composer Maurice Jarre.
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Light music
Light music is a less-serious form of Western classical music, which originated in the 18th and 19th centuries and continues today.
London Recordings
London Recordings (or London Records and London Music Stream) is a British record label that marketed records in the United States, Canada, and Latin America for Decca Records from 1947 to 1980 before becoming semi-independent.
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Mantovani (TV series)
Mantovani is an early American television series which aired in NTA Film Network syndication during 1959.
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Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Mononym
A mononym is a name composed of only one word.
Moon River
"Moon River" is a song composed by Henry Mancini with lyrics by Johnny Mercer.
Naughty Marietta (operetta)
Naughty Marietta is an operetta in two acts, with libretto by Rida Johnson Young and music by Victor Herbert.
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Noël Coward
Sir Noël Peirce Coward (16 December 189926 March 1973) was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time magazine called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer, songwriter and musician who gained worldwide fame with the Beatles, for whom he played bass guitar and shared primary songwriting and lead vocal duties with John Lennon.
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Prelude in C-sharp minor (Rachmaninoff)
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Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1970 by Freddie Mercury (lead vocals, piano), Brian May (guitar, vocals), and Roger Taylor (drums, vocals), later joined by John Deacon (bass).
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Reverberation
Reverberation (commonly shortened to reverb), in acoustics, is a persistence of sound after it is produced.
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Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
The Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43, (Рапсодия на тему Паганини, Rapsodiya na temu Paganini) is a concertante work written by Sergei Rachmaninoff for piano and orchestra, closely resembling a piano concerto, all in a single movement.
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Ronald Binge
Ronald Binge (15 July 1910 – 6 September 1979) was a British composer and arranger of light music.
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Royal Tunbridge Wells
Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London.
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Sing as You Swing
Sing as You Swing is a 1937 British musical film directed by Redd Davis and starring Charles Clapham, Bill Dwyer and Claude Dampier.
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Some Enchanted Evening
"Some Enchanted Evening" is a show tune from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific.
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Sous le ciel de Paris (song)
"Sous le ciel de Paris" is a song initially written for the 1951 French film Sous le ciel de Paris, directed by Julien Duvivier.
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Space music
Space music, also called spacemusic or space ambient, is a subgenre of ambient music and is described as "tranquil, hypnotic and moving".
Stereophonic sound
Stereophonic sound, or more commonly stereo, is a method of sound reproduction that recreates a multi-directional, 3-dimensional audible perspective.
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Stranger in Paradise (song)
"Stranger in Paradise" is a popular song from the musical Kismet (1953), credited to Robert Wright and George Forrest.
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String orchestra
A string orchestra is an orchestra consisting solely of a string section made up of the bowed strings used in Western Classical music.
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String quartet
The term string quartet refers to either a type of musical composition or a group of four people who play them.
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Summertime (George Gershwin song)
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
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Swedish Rhapsody No. 1
Swedish Rhapsody No.
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Tales from the Vienna Woods
"Tales from the Vienna Woods" (italic, occasionally) is a waltz by Johann Strauss II.
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Tell Me on a Sunday
Tell Me on a Sunday is a musical with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Don Black.
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The Blue Danube
"The Blue Danube" is the common English title of "An der schönen blauen Donau", Op. 314 (German for "By the Beautiful Blue Danube"), a waltz by the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II, composed in 1866.
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music is an encyclopedia created in 1989 by Colin Larkin.
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The Green Leaves of Summer
"The Green Leaves of Summer", composed by Dimitri Tiomkin with lyrics by Paul Francis Webster, was written for the 1960 film The Alamo.
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The Kinks
The Kinks were an English rock band formed in London in 1963 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies. Mantovani and The Kinks are London Records artists.
The Song from Moulin Rouge
"The Song from Moulin Rouge", sub-titled "Where Is Your Heart", is a popular song that first appeared in the 1952 film Moulin Rouge (in which it was titled "It's April Again").
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Theme of Exodus
"Theme of Exodus" is a song composed and performed by Ernest Gold.
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Top 40
In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre.
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is a music and dance conservatoire based in Greenwich, London, England.
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Tulips from Amsterdam
"Tulips from Amsterdam" is a popular romantic song, best known in the 1958 hit version by British entertainer Max Bygraves.
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UK singles chart
The UK Singles Chart (currently titled the Official Singles Chart, with the upper section more commonly known as the Official UK Top 40) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.
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Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Venice
Venice (Venezia; Venesia, formerly Venexia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.
Vera Lynn
Dame Vera Margaret Lynn (20 March 1917 – 18 June 2020) was an English singer and entertainer whose musical recordings and performances were very popular during World War II. Mantovani and vera Lynn are Entertainments National Service Association personnel and London Records artists.
Vivian Ellis
Vivian John Herman Ellis, CBE (29 October 1903 – 19 June 1996) was an English musical comedy composer best known for the song "Spread a Little Happiness" and the theme "Coronation Scot". Mantovani and Vivian Ellis are 20th-century classical musicians.
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What Kind of Fool Am I?
"What Kind of Fool Am I?" is a popular song written by Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley and published in 1962.
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White Christmas (song)
"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting.
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Wiener Blut (waltz)
Wiener Blut ('Viennese Blood', 'Vienna Blood' or 'Viennese Spirit') Op.
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World War II
World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.
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Yesterday (song)
"Yesterday" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and credited to Lennon–McCartney.
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You Only Live Twice (song)
"You Only Live Twice", performed by Nancy Sinatra, is the theme song to the 1967 James Bond film of the same name.
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(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story
"(Where Do I Begin?) Love Story" is a popular song published in 1970, with music by Francis Lai and lyrics by Carl Sigman.
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See also
Dance band bandleaders
- Ambrose (bandleader)
- Archibald Joyce
- Billy Cotton
- Billy Ternent
- British dance band
- Carroll Gibbons
- Charlie Kunz
- Charlie Spivak
- Debroy Somers
- Earl Fuller
- Edmundo Ros
- Fred Elizalde
- George Scott-Wood
- Geraldo (bandleader)
- Hal Kemp
- Harry Roy
- Henry Hall (bandleader)
- Jack Hylton
- Jack Jackson (radio personality)
- Jack Payne (bandleader)
- Jay Wilbur
- Joe Loss
- Lew Stone
- Lou Preager
- Mantovani
- Maurice Winnick
- Max Jones (journalist)
- Nat Gonella
- Oscar Rabin
- Percival Mackey
- Ray Noble
- Ronnie Aldrich
- Roy Fox
- Victor Silvester
- Ziggy Elman
Entertainments National Service Association personnel
- Adelaide Hall
- Basil Dean
- Beatrice Lillie
- Betty Paul
- Harry Lauder
- Jack Hawkins
- John Ruddock
- Joyce Grenfell
- Lanchester Marionettes
- Leslie Henson
- Mantovani
- Molly Raynor
- Muriel Lanchester
- Paul Eddington
- Seymour Hicks
- Stanley Baxter
- Stephen Arlen
- Vera Lynn
Italian classical musicians
- Abramo Basevi
- Alessandro Scarlatti
- Alfredo D'Ambrosio
- Andrea Liberovici
- Antonio Bertali
- Aquilino Coppini
- Cesare Dobici
- Domenico Cimarosa
- Dorina Frati
- Dynamis Ensemble
- Ezio Bosso
- Federico Favali
- Gian Marco Ciampa
- Giovanni Gabrieli
- Girolamo Frescobaldi
- Giuseppe Gallignani
- Julian Gargiulo
- Mantovani
- Marco I. Benevento
- Mario Marzi
- Marzio Conti
- Matteo Messori
- Mauro Maur
- Oreste Ravanello
- Paolo Longo
- Salvatore Di Vittorio
- Sergio Azzolini
- Severino Gazzelloni
Italian light music composers
- Adalgiso Ferraris
- Mantovani
- Nicola Piovani
- Pasquale Troise
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantovani
Also known as Annunzio Mantovani, Annunzio Paolo Mantovani, Lonely Ballerina, Mantovani Orchestra, Mantovani and His Orchestra, Mantovanian, Tulio Trapani.
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