Adagio in g minor

Composer: ALBINONI, Tomaso
  • This Adagio was actually composed by Albinoni scholar Remo Giazotto (1910-98). At first Giazotto claimed that the piece was realized from a fragment by Albinoni; later Giazotto claimed it as his own original work.
  • Giazotto claimed he “found” this fragment by Albinoni in Saxon State Library in Dresden after the city was firebombed during the Second World War.1

Sources

  1.  “Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor,” ClassicFM, accessed July 10, 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/albinoni/music/tomaso-albinoni-adagio-g-minor/.

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