Mario Gorlero

Mario Gorlero Pedrazza was born on 8 September 1900 in Verona (Italy). He studied in his hometown at the Liceo Musicale under Pietro Marconi (violin) and Pietro Bottagisio (composition, counterpoint, harmonics) and later completed his studies in Venice under Ampelio Bettero (orchestration). He then attended a teacher training course in Bozen and then returned to Verona.
After his studies Mario Gorlero worked as a music critic for the Verona newspaper "L'Arena". He was a member of the Regia Accademia di Bologna with a diploma in choral singing and music education. Since 1932 Mario Golero was a member of the board of trustees of the Sindacato Interprovinciale dei Musicisti. The same year he co-founded the music festival "Musiche Nuove" that took place in the castle Castelvecchio in Verona. The goal of the festival was to support contemporary classical music by Verona and Italian composers. Mario Golero contributed several own compositions to the festival over the years and participated as a violinist and conductor. The festival also presented renowned Italian composers like Gabriele Bianchi, Lino Liviabella, Nino Sanzogno or Gino Tagliapietra. In 1938 the times had changed so much - Great Depression, rise of Fascism - that there was no place for modern classical music and the festival was stopped. After World War II Mario Gorlero worked as a teacher at a music school in Citta della Pieve and was director of the music school in Montepulciano.
Mario Gorlero died on 11 April 1972 in Verona (Italy).

The work catalogue of Mario Golero contains the triptych for voice and orchestra "Melodie gardesane" (awarded first price by the musicians and artists society of Verona, Trient and Bozen in 1935), "Plenilunio" for men's choir (awarded first price in the choir composition competition of the Opera Nazionale Dopolavoro in 1936), "Sei liriche" for voice, piano and orchestra, the musical melodramas "Ghino di Tacco" (1948) and "Porsenna" (1952), the operas "Speranze e memorie" (1952) and "Zelindo il garibaldino" (1960) and "Canzone triste e Minuetto" for harp quintet.