Aurelio's parents had him tutored privately at home until, at age 13, he attended Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music and studied piano with Maestro Giovanni Sgambati and Ferruccio Busoni from 1909 to 1911.

His success was all the more marked because an unfortunate accident had happened to the piano, and the young musician was obliged to play without the use of the pedals.

Madame Giorni sang arie & remanse by Haendel, Sgambati, Tschaikovsky, Brahms & Strauss, as well as compositions by Aurelio Giorni, who accompanied his mother on the piano.Aurelio graduated from Santa Cecilia before he turned 15, enabling him to enter the Meisterschule für Komposition (Master School for Composition) in Berlin in 1911.

In 1918, after America entered World War I, Aurelio enlisted at Fort Hamilton, N.Y., exiting as a private in the U.S. Army.

It was not until Helen talked to "Aunt Hattie" (Mrs. Charles Harrington), an elderly clairvoyant she would visit who'd been friends with her parents.

When Helen relayed the information given her to the Pittsfield police, they are able to find his body on September 30 in the Housatonic River, 1000 feet south of the Pomeroy Avenue bridge.

He was notified just 10 days before his death that his services at Smith College would not be required for the coming term, and was also disappointed when none of his compositions was given place on the South Mountain program, nor was he among the festival performers.

Several months prior, on April 25, Aurelio and his family went to Carnegie Hall for the first performance of his Symphony in D Minor, being given that night by the National Orchestral Association under the leadership of conductor Léon Barzin.

Aurelio Giorni was laid to rest in the family plot at Rosedale Cemetery, Orange, New Jersey, on October 3, 1938.

There was no singing but Laurens Seelye (childhood friend of Helen) read several poems which Aurelio set to music.

The musicians were Max Hollaender (violin), Sterling Hunkins (cello), and Eugene Kusmiak (piano), performing the Trio in C Major, a mastery of harmonic and contrapuntal technique characteristic of the composer's mature work.

The Elshuco Trio was formed in 1918 with founding members Samuel Gardner (violin), Willem Willeke (violincello), and Richard Epstein (piano).

[12] Other known appearances reported where: The last performance of the Elshuco Trio was their final concert of their 15th season on March 7, 1933, in the United Engineering Societies auditorium (New York), and was augmented for the occasion by Conrad Held, violinist.

Stanford University (CST) also has annotated copies of pages from the Brunswick catalogs of 1923 and 1925, where it is noted that these selections were chosen for popular appeal rather than a representative sampling of their repertoire.

The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (NYPLPA) has numerous scores from the Giorni estate cataloged under call number JPB 83-61.