Gaetano Giani Luporini (28 May 1936 – 27 February 2022) was an Italian composer and academic.
Life and career
Born in
Lucca
Lucca ( , ) is a city and ''comune'' in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. The city has a population of about 89,000, while its province has a population of 383,957.
Lucca is known as one o ...
, the grandson of the composer
Gaetano Luporini
Giovanni Gaetano Luporini (1865–1948) was an Italian composer. A native of Lucca, he studied there with before transferring to the Milan Conservatory, where he studied with Anselmi and Alfredo Catalani.Liner notes to ''Gaetano Luporini – L ...
, after studying violin he enrolled at the
Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini
The Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini is located in piazza delle Belle Arti in Florence. The conservatory, among the most important in Italy, is named after the Florentine composer Luigi Cherubini (1760–1842).
History
The conservatory occupies p ...
in
Florence
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, graduating in composition under
Roberto Lupi
Roberto Lupi (28 November 1908 – 17 April 1971) was an Italian composer, conductor, and music theorist. Born in Milan and trained at the conservatory there, he began his conducting career in 1937. His compositions of experimental music include ...
.
Between 1968 and 1986 he was professor of Harmony and Counterpoint at his
alma mater, and between 1986 and 2003 he directed the
Luigi Boccherini
Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini (, also , ; 19 February 1743 – 28 May 1805) was an Italian composer and cellist of the Classical era whose music retained a courtly and ''galante'' style even while he matured somewhat apart from the major European ...
Conservatory in his hometown.
Luporini composed chamber, opera, symphonic and choral music.
He was also active as a composer of
incidental music
Incidental music is music in a play, television program, radio program, video game, or some other presentation form that is not primarily musical. The term is less frequently applied to film music, with such music being referred to instead as t ...
, and was well known as a faithful collaborator of
Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene, known as Carmelo Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002), was an Italian actor, poet, film director and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian experimental theatre, avant-garde thea ...
for about twenty years.
Luporini died from complications of
COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
in
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People
* Barga Mongols in the early 20th century
Places
* Barga (department), Burkina Faso
* Barga, Tuscany
Barga is a medieval town and ''comune'' of the province of Lucca in Tuscany, central Italy. It is home to around 10, ...
,
Province of Lucca
The province of Lucca ( it, provincia di Lucca) is a province in the Tuscany region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Lucca.
It has an area of and a total population of about 390,000. There are 33 ''comuni'' (singular: ''comune'') in the pro ...
, on 27 February 2022, at the age of 85.
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1936 births
2022 deaths
20th-century classical composers
20th-century Italian composers
20th-century Italian male musicians
Italian classical composers
Musicians from Lucca
Italian opera composers
Italian male opera composers
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Tuscany