Giovanni Gaetano Luporini (1865–1948) was an Italian composer. A native of

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 ...

, he studied there with before transferring to the

Milan Conservatory The Milan Conservatory (''Conservatorio di Milano'') is a college of music in Milan, Italy. History The conservatory was established by a royal decree of 1807 in Milan, capital of the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. It opened the following year ...

, where he studied with Anselmi and Alfredo Catalani.Liner notes to ''Gaetano Luporini – Lamberto Landi'', Bongiovanni, recorded 1990 He served as director of Lucca's Pacini Institute between 1902 and 1937. As a composer, he was active in the field of

sacred music Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as ritual. Relig ...

, and served as ''

maestro di cappella (, also , ) from German ''Kapelle'' (chapel) and ''Meister'' (master)'','' literally "master of the chapel choir" designates the leader of an ensemble of musicians. Originally used to refer to somebody in charge of music in a chapel, the term ha ...

'' of the

Lucca Cathedral Lucca Cathedral ( it, Duomo di Lucca, Cattedrale di San Martino) is a Roman Catholic cathedral dedicated to Saint Martin of Tours in Lucca, Italy. It is the seat of the Archbishop of Lucca. Construction was begun in 1063 by Bishop Anselm (later P ...

. Luporini also composed orchestral and vocal music. He wrote a number of operas, including: *''Marcella'' (Milan, 1891) *''I dispetti amorosi'' (Turin, 1894) – libretto by

Luigi Illica Luigi Illica (9 May 1857 – 16 December 1919) was an Italian librettist who wrote for Giacomo Puccini (usually with Giuseppe Giacosa), Pietro Mascagni, Alfredo Catalani, Umberto Giordano, Baron Alberto Franchetti and other important Italian co ...

*''La collana di Pasqua'' (Naples, 1896) later presented as ''Nora'' *''Marie Lacroix'' (Lucca, 1908) He also composed an operetta, ''L'aquila e le colombe''. A Mass for mixed chorus and orchestra, and an ''Andante religioso'', have been recorded on the Bongiovanni label, coupled with a Mass and ''Andante'' by Lamberto Landi. His grandson Gaetano Giani Luporini was also a classical composer.

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