He began his career directing main companies in the Eden and La Fenice theatres in Naples.
During the First World War he started an orchestra giving concerts for the troops and composing patriotic songs like "Italia mia".
In 1926 he started the musical publishing house La bottega dei Quattro (The Workshop of the Four) with the authors Bovio, Lama and Valente.
He settled down in Torre del Greco with his wife Lucia D'Orlando, sister-in-law of tenor Francesco Albanese.
The poet Libero Bovio expressed the funeral oration in the plaza of Torre del Greco.