Salvatore Minichini was an American bandmasters and composer. As conductor of the Italian Royal Marine Band he made several recordings of Italian marches and operatic transcriptions between 1923 and 1929, and composed 22 marches for band including I Zingari ("The Gypsies"), Chimes of America, and New Frontier. The Salvatore Minichini Music Collection consists Minichini’s extensive collection of manuscript scores and Italian band music. The collection contains 9,447 items and spans the years 1874 to 1973.
