He was 94. The first shop in Corso D’Azeglio in 1956: the House of Music. He created Elettronica 2000 and a shower box factory in Borgofranco d’Ivrea
IVREA
“No one is a prophet in his homeland” is a Latin phrase that certainly does not fit Gaudenzio Mussano, self made man and a successful man, who was a prophet in his Canavese homeland, thanks to his talent, business flair, uncommon resourcefulness and a good dose of courage, always striving to improve and improve himself and open to new adventures and professional goals. It was like this throughout his long life which ended on Thursday 18 March, at the age of 94, when he died at home, after a short illness following a fall, his hand in that of his wife Rosanna who had been to him. next to the last. A well-known person, Mussano was one of those men who contributed to making the history of the Ivrea trade. “Originally from Pavone – says his daughter Luisa, Mugnaia 1982 – my father began his professional career as an employee of the Burzio shop, hardware and household items in Corso Nigra, rounding up his income with the home sale of razors, alongside a service for duplication and delivery of keys directly to customers’ homes. In 1956, the first reckless act: the House of music, the shop with which he decided to set up his own business, in Corso Massimo d’Azeglio, and above which we went to live. Televisions, radios, records and appliances: a commercial success and a paradise for me who, every afternoon, after school, went down to the shop to listen to records and radio programs and, often, to draw on the old crank cash register, the change for my small expenses in via Palestro ». “About twenty years later – he continues – it was the turn of another enterprise: the creation, with some partners, around the mid-seventies, of Elettronica 2000, based in Palazzo Fiat, in the current via IV Alpini Regiment , a well-stocked warehouse where it was possible to find everything, from discs to electrical equipment, from home accessories to pots, from glassware to silver, at the time second only to Turin’s Caudano. The latest creation was the shower box factory, the Cristal Box, in Borgofranco, which was sold about twenty years ago, as none of the partners ‘children had expressed an intention to continue their parents’ work. Alongside these achievements, he also completed a series of profitable, although less striking, initiatives ».
Among his passions, music, so much so that he created an orchestra with which, until the age of 30, he toured the Canavese. He was also a women slayer, but, as often happens to the great conquerors, having known what would become his wife, Rosanna, still beautiful and elegant today, lost her head and had no more eyes than for her. “I like to remember him – concludes, moved, the daughter – as a deeply good man, always affable, upright and altruistic”. Mussano’s funeral took place on Saturday 27, in the church of San Lorenzo. –