[1][2][3] He was the son of organist Cristoforo Benvenuti and studied at the Liceo Musicale (now the Conservatorio Giovanni Battista Martini) in Bologna under Luigi Torchi (musicology) and Marco Enrico Bossi (organ).
[4] In 1919 his collection of songs for voice and piano accompaniment, Canti a una voce : con accompagnamento di pianoforte, was published in Bologna.
[5] In 1922 he published a collection of 17th-century art songs entitled 35 Arie di vari autori del secolo XVII.
[6] For the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma he adapted Claudio Monteverdi's L'Orfeo for a production which premiered on 27 December 1934.
[7] The adaptation was later used for the first recording of L'Orfeo in 1939,[8] which included a performance by the orchestra of La Scala Milan under conductor Ferrucio Calusio.