Remo Giazotto
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Remo Giazotto was an Italian
musicologist, music critic, and composer, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni
. He wrote biographies of Albinoni and other composers, including Vivaldi
.
Giazotto served as a music critic (from 1932) and editor (1945-1949) of the Rivista musicale italiana and was appointed co-editor of the Nuova rivista musicale italiana in 1967. He was a professor of the history of music at the University of Florence (1957-69) and in 1962 was nominated to the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia.
In 1949 Giazotto became the director of the chamber music programs for RAI (Radio Audizioni Italiane) and in 1966 its director of the 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 is famous for his publication of a work called Adagio in G minor
, which he claimed to have transcribed from a manuscript fragment of an Albinoni sonata that he had received from the Saxon State Library
. He stated that he had arranged the work but not composed it. He subsequently revised this story, claiming it as his own original composition. The fragment has never appeared in public; Giazotto stated that it contained only the bass line, and the work was copyrighted by Giazotto.
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musicologist, music critic, and composer, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Albinoni
Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni was an Italian Baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, such as the concertos, some of which are regularly recorded.-Biography:Born in Venice, Republic of Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a...
. He wrote biographies of Albinoni and other composers, including Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...
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Giazotto served as a music critic (from 1932) and editor (1945-1949) of the Rivista musicale italiana and was appointed co-editor of the Nuova rivista musicale italiana in 1967. He was a professor of the history of music at the University of Florence (1957-69) and in 1962 was nominated to the Accademia Nazionale di S. Cecilia.
In 1949 Giazotto became the director of the chamber music programs for RAI (Radio Audizioni Italiane) and in 1966 its director of the international programs organized through the European Broadcasting Union
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...
. He was also the president of RAI's auditioning committee and editor of its series of biographies on composers.
Giazotto is famous for his publication of a work called Adagio in G minor
Adagio in G minor
The Adagio in G minor for violin, strings and organ continuo, is a neo-Baroque composition popularly attributed to the 18th-century Venetian master Tomaso Albinoni, but composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the disputed discovery of a...
, which he claimed to have transcribed from a manuscript fragment of an Albinoni sonata that he had received from the Saxon State Library
Saxon State Library
The Saxon State Library in Dresden is the Staatsbibliothek of Saxony and the academic library of the Technische Universität Dresden. It is one of the main public archival centers of Germany. Its treasures, collected over four centuries, were located in the Japanisches Palais and in temporary...
. He stated that he had arranged the work but not composed it. He subsequently revised this story, claiming it as his own original composition. The fragment has never appeared in public; Giazotto stated that it contained only the bass line, and the work was copyrighted by Giazotto.
Writings
- Il melodramma a Genova nei secoli XVII e XVIII (Genoa, 1941)
- Tomaso Albinoni, 'musico violino dilettante veneto' (1671-1750) (Milan, 1945)
- Busoni: la vita nell opera (Milan, 1947)
- La musica a Genova nella vita pubblica e privata dal XIII al XVIII secolo (Genoa, 1952)
- Poesia melodrammatica e pensiero critico nel Settecento (Milan, 1952)
- Il Patricio di Hercole Bottrigari dimostrato practicamente da un anonimo cinquecentesco', CHM, i (1953), 97-112
- Harmonici concenti in aere veneto (Rome, 1955)
- La musica italiana a Londra negli anni di Purcell (Rome, 1955)
- Annali Mozartiani (Milan, 1956)
- Giovan Battista Viotti (Milan, 1956)
- Musurgia nova (Mila, 1959)
- Vita di Alessandro Stradella (Milan, 1962)
- Vivaldi (Milan, 1965)
- La guerra dei palchi, NRMI, i (1967), 245-86, 465-508; iii (1969), 906-33; v (1971), 1304-52
- 'Nel CCC anno della morte di Antonio Cesti: ventidue lettere ritrovate nell' Archivio di Stato di Venezia', NRMI, iii (1969), 496-512