Paolo Agostino Sperati (March 26, 1821 – May 20, 1884) was an Italian conductor, musician, and composer that was active in the theater and opera life of Christiania (now Oslo), Norway in the 19th century.

[1] Sperati became perhaps best known as the conductor of the 2nd Brigade Military Band (1854–1882), and in 1862 he was made a captain,[1] in which capacity he enlisted the young Johan Halvorsen in 1881.

Sperati worked at the Christiania People's Theater and the newly started Tivoli Opera (1882) until his death from a stroke on Easter Sunday, 1884.

[citation needed] His original production of organ music is less known, including the series Tre Pastorali published by Vismara in Milan in Collection of Pieces for the Modern Organist by Renowned Authors / Transcribed and Varied by Paolo Sperati.

[1] While living in Copenhagen, they had two sons: Robert Ferdinand Arnold (1847–1884), who became a conductor and was later married to the actress Octavia Sperati,[1] and Emmanuel (born 1850).