He married Winifred Moss in 1934, having two children: Kenneth (born 12 July 1935) and Paula Irene (born 11 April 1939). After graduation, he formed his own orchestra, which played in and around Birmingham.
The family moved to England in 1912, where young Annunzio studied at Trinity College of Music in London. His father, Benedetto Paolo 'Bismarck' Mantovani, was a violinist and served as the concertmaster of La Scala opera house's orchestra in Milan, under the baton of Arturo Toscanini. Mantovani was born in Venice, Italy, into a musical family.
the first act to sell over one million stereo albums and six albums simultaneously in the US Top 30 in 1959'. The book British Hit Singles & Albums stated that he was 'Britain's most successful album act before the Beatles. You may hear Annunzio Mantovani conducting his Mantovani Orchestra in Elizabethan Serenade by Ronald Binge in 1971 Here on Īnnunzio Paolo Mantovani ( Italian: 15 November 1905 – 29 March 1980) was an Anglo-Italian conductor, composer and light orchestra-styled entertainer with a cascading strings musical signature.
