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 – 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, and served as maestro di cappella of the Lucca Cathedral.Biography at Treccani
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 La collana di Pasqua (Naples, 1896) Marie Lacroix (In 1902, his friend G. Martinelli from Brescia organised a libretto by Nicola Daspuro, which comprised four acts) later presented as Nora with three acts (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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