Sunday, February 17, 2013

Music #338 - Tomaso Albinoni

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751)
"a Venetian Baroque composer" 
     
Adagio in G minor  
* a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to Albinoni
* but actually composed in 1945 by musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto (1910-1998, Italian), based on a manuscript fragment by Albinoni, uncovered from the ruins of the Saxon State Library at Dresden, caused by Allied bombing in WWII.


(L) @ Basilica of the Pannonhalma Archabbey, Hungary
 
(R) Sissel

Il Divo


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