- Like “Albinoni’s” Adagio in g minor, this work appears to be something of a musical forgery. Current scholarship indicates that it is not the work of Paradis, but probably a composition by violinist Samuel Dushkin, who claimed to have discovered it.1
- Coincidentally, the real composer of “Albinoni’s” famous Adagio was Remo Giazotto, who claimed to have discovered it.2
- According to Paradis’s Oxford Music Online article, Dushkin probably based this piece on Carl Maria von Weber’s Violin Sonata Op.10, No.1.3
Sources
- Rudolph Angermüller, Hidemi Matsushita, and Ron Rabin, “Paradis [Paradies], Maria Theresia,” Grove Music Online (2001), accessed Aug. 5, 2021, https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000020868.
- “Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor,” ClassicFM, accessed July 10, 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/albinoni/music/tomaso-albinoni-adagio-g-minor/.
- Angermüller, Matsushita, and Rabin, “Paradis [Paradies], Maria Theresia,” Grove Music Online.
Cut IDs
48543