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He immediately embarked on a career as a pianist in the late 1950s with a number of pop music ensembles in Italy and abroad, including: the "LITTLE BAND" in 1958, the "CAMIS," from 1959 to 1961, the "CLAUDIO DELL'ADRIA QUARTET" in 1960 and the "5 KINGS" from 1960 to 1964.

The "LITTLE BAND" orchestra, founded by guitarist Raoul Casadei, consisted of seven elements: Tiberio Marani (piano), Sauro Rocchi (drums) and his brother Ilario Rocchi (clarinet), Marino Gori (trumpet), Alberto Casadei (lead vocals) and a saxophonist. The orchestra entertained audiences on summer weekends in 1958 to the rhythm of rock and swing.

After his experience with "CAMIS," Giorgio Fabbri became one of singer Fred Bongusto's orchestral musicians, while Franco Righi remained in Romagna running two record stores between Cesena and Milano Marittima.

Piero Focaccia, on the advice of Tiberio Marani, moved to the Capital and began performing with the "5 KINGS" band in a number of night clubs, particularly at the Rupe Tarpea in Via Veneto.

The band members, in addition to Piero Focaccia: Tiberio Marani on piano, Luigi "Gigi" Nori on guitar, Sauro Rocchi on drums, and his brother Ilario Rocchi on clarinet and saxophone.

His passion and love for the accordion led Tiberio Marani to make a name for himself in the musical scene of his homeland, coming into contact with the great Maestro CARLO BAIARDI, one of the historic saxophonists of dance music in Romagna, who had been part of Maestro Secondo Casadei's orchestra, replacing Primo Lucchi, until 1962, when he decided to form his own orchestra.

The musicians who make up the first lineup are: Giovanni Fantini (guitar and vocals), Delvolto Argelli (clarinet), Tiberio Marani (piano and accordion), Paolo Bersani (trumpet), Pino Zampa (drums and vocals), Sante "Jack" Montanari (flute and bass). The first singers were Maria, Marylin, Lidia Strada and Marisa Paganelli, who remained until 1967.

Over the 30 years of the "FOLKLORE DI ROMAGNA" Orchestra's activity, Maestro Tiberio Marani writes so many compositions. So many have danced to the notes of these hits published for Peer Southern Productions, Ricordi, D.E.M. Edizioni Musicali:

"THE HORSES ARE TIRED," "SUPERSONIC," "ANDREA," "ON A ROLL," "TRIUMPH," "PAGODA," "ROMAGNA MIO AMOR," "OSSOBUCO," "TRAMPALINI," "I VAGABONDI," "MONTE BIANCO," "SBIRULINA," "PARABOLICA," "CAMPIONISSIMO." "GATTONA", "SCHERZANDO COL SAX", "TIRAMI SU", "BIRBONA", "SUPER SETTE", "LA SCOSSA", "FIOCCO DI NEVE", "CONCERTO PER DUE CUORI", "ALFIO", "NOTTURNO D'AMORE", "LA GNOCCA", "UMORESCA", "GAMBA LUNGA".

As the years passed, Tiberio Marani's name became increasingly popular among orchestras in Emilia-Romagna and outside the region, especially in Piedmont, Lombardy, Liguria, Veneto, and Sicily.

This resulted in a high increase in requests for the sheet music of his songs to the point that, on May 23, 1981, he decided to establish the publishing house "MARANI EDIZIONI MUSICALI."

Since that time he has carried on his primary activity as an editor, publishing light and folk music pieces for orchestra, pieces for solo accordion, alto sax, clarinet and especially music for band.

Editorial proposals designed and programmed for band ensembles include brilliant and symphonic marches, transcriptions of classical pieces, arrangements of pieces in rhythmic versions, original concert pieces of a modern character, operatic fantasies, marchable potpourri, marchable parodies, national and patriotic anthems, dance entertainment, religious and funeral music, fantasies, ensemble music for chamber groups, music for choir, band librettos, didactics and recordings.

From an idea of Ezio Rizzoli, patron of the Piteco Club in Godo di Russi and Luciano Monti, the glorious new musical lineup of the "FOLKLORE DI ROMAGNA" Orchestra will restart on November 7, 2016, with some of the original musicians and the addition of new ones. Among them:

Silvano Silvani (alto saxophone), Andrea Chiarabini (drums), Giorgio Fabbri (bass guitar), Piero Brasini (guitar), Tiberio Marani (accordion), Giuseppe Gili (alto saxophone), Gabriele Fussi (clarinet), Mirco Gramellini (clarinet), Dedo Baldassarri (keyboards), Enzo D'Asmara (violin), Antonella Nuti (viola and vocalist), Tony Pierotti (vocalist).

The repertoire included hits by the great masters of Romagna folklore: Secondo Casadei, Tiberio Marani, Ferrer Rossi, Vittorio Borghesi, Carlo Baiardi, Delvolto Argelli, Ivano Nicolucci and Franco Bergamini.

The evenings scheduled at Piteco Club on the first Monday of each month ended with the last one on May 15, 2017.

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