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First name: Mario
Last name: Pilati
Dates: 1903-1938
Category: Quintet
Nationality: Italian
Opus name: Piano Quintet in re (1925)
Publisher: Ricordi
Peculiarities: http://www.ricordi.it/catalogue/products/quintetto/; cd:http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.572628
Information: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Mario Pilati (June 2, 1903 – December 10, 1938) was an Italian composer. Pilati was born in Naples, and his natural musical talent showed itself when he was very young. He entered the Conservatoiro di Musica San Pietro a Majella at the age of fifteen, studying under Antonio Savasta. In 1925, on the advice of Ildebrando Pizzetti, he went to Milan, where he worked as a teacher, music critic and an arranger of vocal scores for Casa Ricordi until 1930, when he moved back to Naples to take up a professorship at the conservatory where he had been a student. In 1933 he accepted a post at the conservatory in Palermo, returning to Naples in 1938, where he became ill and died just before the outbreak of World War II. Pilati's output is considerable given his few years of compositional maturity, but it includes a Concerto for Orchestra (1932), premiered by Dmitri Mitropoulos at the Venice Biennale in 1938, which shows modal influences of Respighi as well as a Mahlerian ländler in the finale. Other compositions include a Suite for Strings and Piano of 1925 and several chamber works. At his death he was working on an opera, Piedigrotta, to a libretto in Neapolitan dialect. Only the first act was completed.