Gaetano Giani Luporini
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{{Short description|Italian composer and academic (1936–2022)}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth-date|28 May 1936}}
| death_date = {{Death-date and age|27 February 2022|28 May 1936}}
| death_place = Barga, Province of Lucca, Italy
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Gaetano Giani Luporini (28 May 1936 – 27 February 2022) was an Italian composer and academic.
Life and career
Born in Lucca, the grandson of the composer Gaetano Luporini, after studying violin he enrolled at the Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini in Florence, graduating in composition under Roberto Lupi.{{cite news |title=Lucca, musica in lutto: è morto il maestro Gaetano Giani Luporini |url=https://iltirreno.gelocal.it/lucca/cronaca/2022/02/27/news/musica-in-lutto-e-morto-il-maestro-gaetano-giani-luporini-1.41262086 |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=Il Tirreno |date=27 February 2022 |language=it-IT}} 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 Conservatory in his hometown.
Luporini composed chamber, opera, symphonic and choral music. He was also active as a composer of incidental music, and was well known as a faithful collaborator of Carmelo Bene for about twenty years.{{cite news |last1=Dinelli |first1=Simone |title=Gaetano Giani Luporini muore all'età di 85 anni: mondo della cultura in lutto a Lucca |url=https://corrierefiorentino.corriere.it/firenze/notizie/cronaca/22_febbraio_27/gaetano-giani-luporini-muore-all-eta-85-anni-mondo-cultura-lutto-lucca-515624a2-97d9-11ec-b60b-e1381342432e.shtml |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=Corriere Fiorentino |date=27 February 2022 |language=it}}
Luporini died from complications of COVID-19 in Barga, Province of Lucca, on 27 February 2022, at the age of 85.{{cite news |title=Musica in lutto, è morto il maestro Giani Luporini |url=https://www.lanazione.it/lucca/cronaca/gaetano-giani-luporini-1.7410793 |access-date=28 February 2022 |work=La Nazione |date=27 February 2022 |language=it}}
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |last1=Cresti |first1=Renzo |title=Gaetano Giani Luporini: musica fra utopia e tradizione |date=2005 |publisher=Antiqua |isbn=978-88-88326-02-3 |language=it|ref=none}}
- {{cite book |last1=Caselli |first1=Gianmarco |title=Suono, segno, gesto nella musica per pianoforte di Gaetano Giani Luporini |date=2009 |publisher=ETS |isbn=978-88-467-1925-6 |language=it|ref=none}}
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Category:20th-century Italian classical composers
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Category:20th-century Italian male musicians
Category:Italian opera composers