Francesco Carotenuto studied at the music school in Pesaro and received a diploma in band arranging in 1919. He directed the Guard ... 71 additonal characters for paid subscriptions ... 22-1923). He later led bands in Petritoli (1927-1933), the Banda Ond in Comunanza (from 1933), and, at the end of the 1940’s, the band in Mesagne.