Editing Henry Mancini (section)

==Early life==
Henry Mancini was born Enrico Nicola Mancini in [[Cleveland, Ohio]], and raised in [[West Aliquippa, Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sony.com/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-music-entertainment/2014/sonylegacy-recordings-launch-yearlong-celebration-of-henry-mancini-with-50th-anniversary-limited-edition-of-the-pink-panther-soundtrack-album-pressed-on-12-pink-vinyl-for-record-store-day-2014.html|title= Sony/Legacy Recordings Launch Year-Long Celebration of Henry Mancini with 50th Anniversary Limited Edition of The Pink Panther Soundtrack Album, Pressed on 12" PINK VINYL for Record Store Day 2014|publisher=Sony Music Entertainment|date=April 16, 2014|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name=pabook>{{cite web|url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Mancini__Henry|title=Henry Mancini|publisher=Pennsylvania Center for the Book, Penn State University|access-date=June 7, 2019|date=2005|last=Klemick|first=Valerie Anne}}</ref> Both his parents were Italian immigrants. Originally from [[Scanno, Abruzzo]], his father Quintiliano "Quinto" Mancini was a laborer at the [[Jones and Laughlin Steel Company]] and amateur musician who first came to the U.S. as a teenager around 1910.{{sfnp|Caps|2012|p=5}}<ref name=Scanno>{{cite web|url=https://italoamericano.org/story/2018-9-7/scanno|title=Mystical allure of scenic Scanno|last=Radaelli|first=Marielle|work=L'Italo-Americano|date=September 7, 2018|access-date=June 7, 2019|archive-date=June 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607183342/https://italoamericano.org/story/2018-9-7/scanno|url-status=dead}}</ref> His mother Anna ({{née|Pece}}) came to the U.S. from [[Forlì del Sannio]], [[Molise]], as an infant.{{sfnp|Caps|2012|p=5}}

At age eight, Mancini began learning the [[piccolo]].{{sfnp|Mancini|Lees|2001|p=3}}<ref name=pc23>{{cite AV media |title=John Gilliland's Pop Chronicles: Show 23 – Smack Dab in the Middle on Route 66. [Part 2], The Music Men. [Part 1] |medium=Radio |date=February 1969 |url=https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19778/m1/ |publisher=University of North Texas Digital Library}}</ref> Mancini said that hearing Rudolph G. Kopp's score in the 1935 [[Cecil B. DeMille]] film ''[[The Crusades (1935 film)|The Crusades]]'' inspired him to pursue film music composition despite his father's wishes for him to become a teacher.{{sfnb|Caps|2012|p=7}}<ref name="Severo">{{cite news|last=Severo |first=Richard |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/06/15/obituaries/henry-mancini-dies-at-70-composer-for-films-and-tv.html |title=Henry Mancini Dies at 70; Composer for Films and TV|work=The New York Times|date=June 15, 1994|access-date=June 8, 2019}}</ref>

At age 12, he began studying piano and orchestral arrangement under Pittsburgh concert pianist and Stanley Theatre (now [[Benedum Center]]) conductor Max Adkins. Not only did Mancini produce arrangements for the Stanley Theatre bands, but he also wrote an arrangement for [[Benny Goodman]], an up-and-coming bandleader introduced to him by Adkins.<ref name=pabook />{{sfnb|Caps|2012|pp=9-10}} According to Mancini biographer John Caps, the young Mancini "preferred music arranging to any kind of musical performance, but taking apart a [[Chopin]] [[mazurka]] or [[Schumann]] [[sonata]] in order to play it helped him see...how the puzzle of form, meter, melody, harmony, and counterpoint had been solved by previous composers."{{sfnb|Caps|2012|p=9}}

After graduating from [[Aliquippa Junior/Senior High School|Aliquippa High School]] in 1942, Mancini first attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now [[Carnegie Mellon University]]) in Pittsburgh.<ref name=Oliver>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-henry-mancini-19940615-20160609-snap-htmlstory.html|last=Oliver|first=Myrna|title=Henry Mancini, Composer of Elegant Music, Dies|work=Los Angeles Times|date=June 15, 1994|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref><ref name=Britannica>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Mancini|title=Enrico Mancini|date=April 12, 2019|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=June 7, 2019}}</ref> Later that year, Mancini transferred to the [[Juilliard School of Music]] in New York City following a successful audition in which he performed a [[Beethoven]] sonata and improvisation on "[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]" by [[Cole Porter]].{{sfnb|Caps|2012|pp=10-11}}<ref name=pabook /> Because he could only take orchestration and composition courses in his second year, Mancini studied only piano in his first year at Juilliard, in a condition Caps called "aimless and oppressed—a far cry from Adkins's enabling protective environment."{{sfnb|Caps|2012|p=10}}

After turning 18, Mancini enlisted in the [[United States Army Air Forces]] in 1943. While in [[Military recruit training|basic training]] in [[Atlantic City Training Center|Atlantic City, New Jersey]], he met musicians being recruited by [[Glenn Miller]]. Owing to a recommendation by Miller, Mancini was first assigned to the 28th Air Force Band before being reassigned overseas to the 1306th Engineers Brigade in France. In 1945, he helped liberate the [[Mauthausen concentration camp|Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp]] in Austria.{{sfnb|Caps|2012|pp=10-11}}