Adagio di remo giazotto biography

Italian composer (–)

Remo Giazotto
Born	()4 September Rome
Died	26 August () (aged&#;87) Pisa

Musical artist

Remo Giazotto (4 September , Rome – 26 August , Pisa) was an Italian musicologist, music critic, and composer, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni.

The Armenian composer and pianist has reimagined a perform close to her heart, the Adagio once credited solely to Tomaso Albinoni. Listen to the track here. Thanks to the recollections of the physicist Adalberto Giazotto, documented before his death inwe know that his father, the musicologist, critic and composer Remo Giazotto —98began researching the life and work of Albinoni in Remo threw himself into the project, acquiring huge amounts of material from libraries across Europe.

He wrote biographies of Albinoni and other composers, including Antonio Vivaldi.

Giazotto served as a music critic (from ) and editor (–) of the Rivista musicale italiana and was appointed co-editor of the Nuova rivista musicale italiana in He was a professor of the history of music at the University of Florence (–69) and in was nominated^{[clarification needed]} to the Accademia Nazionale di S.

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In , Giazotto became the director of the chamber music programs for Italian express broadcaster RAI and in was appointed director of its international programs organized through the European Broadcasting Union. He was also the president of RAI's auditioning committee and editor of its series of biographies on composers.

Giazotto was the father of physicist Adalberto Giazotto.

Adagio in G minor

Giazotto is famous for his publication of a operate called Adagio in G minor, which he claimed to include elaborated from a fragment of an Albinoni trio sonata that he had received from the Saxon State Library.

Remo Giazotto biography: Adagio in G trivial for strings and organ, also known as Adagio in Sol minore per archi e organo su due spunti tematici e su un basso numerato di Tomaso Albinoni (Mi 26), is a neo-Baroque composition often misattributed to the 18th-century Venetian composer Tomaso Albinoni.

According to Giazotto, it contained the bass line in print and six bars from the first violin part in manuscript. However, the fragment has never appeared in widespread, and the work was ed by Giazotto.^[1][2]

Writings

• Il melodramma a Genova nei secoli XVII e XVIII (Genoa, )
• Tomaso Albinoni, 'musico violino dilettante veneto' (–) (Milan, )
• Busoni: la vita nell opera (Milan, )
• La musica a Genova nella vita pubblica e privata dal XIII al XVIII secolo (Genoa, )
• Poesia melodrammatica e pensiero critico nel Settecento (Milan, )
• Il Patricio di Hercole Bottrigari dimostrato praticamente da un anonimo cinquecentesco, CHM, i (), 97–
• Harmonici concenti in aere veneto (Rome, )
• La musica italiana a Londra negli anni di Purcell (Rome, )
• Annali Mozartiani (Milan, )
• Giovan Battista Viotti (Milan, )
• Musurgia nova (Mila, )
• Vita di Alessandro Stradella (Milan, )
• Vivaldi (Milan, )
• "La guerra dei palchi", Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, i (), –86, –; iii (), –33; v (), –52
• "Nel CCC anno della morte di Antonio Cesti: ventidue lettere ritrovate nell' Archivio di Stato di Venezia", Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana, iii (), –

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