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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Italy – January 17, 1751, Venice) was a Venetian baroque composer. While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music, some of which is regularly recorded. Famous “Albinoni Adagio in G minor”, which is one of the most frequently recorded pieces of Baroque music, actually was composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto and based on the disputed discovery of a manuscript fragment from Albinoni.
Born to Antonio Albinoni (1634–1709), a wealthy paper merchant and nobleman in Venice, he studied violin and singing. Relatively little is known about his life, especially considering his contemporary stature as a composer and the comparatively well-documented period in which he lived. In 1694 he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian Pietro, Cardinal Ottoboni (grand-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII); Ottoboni was an important patron in Rome of other composers, such as Arcangelo Corelli.
Albinoni was employed in 1700 as a violinist to the Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua, to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces. In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany.
In 1705 he was married; Antonino Biffi, the maestro di cappella of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni’s.
Born to Antonio Albinoni (1634–1709), a wealthy paper merchant and nobleman in Venice, he studied violin and singing. Relatively little is known about his life, especially considering his contemporary stature as a composer and the comparatively well-documented period in which he lived. In 1694 he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian Pietro, Cardinal Ottoboni (grand-nephew of Pope Alexander VIII); Ottoboni was an important patron in Rome of other composers, such as Arcangelo Corelli.
Albinoni was employed in 1700 as a violinist to the Fernando Carlo, Duke of Mantua, to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces. In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to Grand Duke Ferdinand III of Tuscany.
In 1705 he was married; Antonino Biffi, the maestro di cappella of San Marco was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni’s.
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Steelvagina wrote:
Op. 10 is excellent. (2)
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3mb1tt3r wrote:
Oh My God Such A Wonderful Music *_*
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LordsOfTheStorm wrote:
Op. 10 is excellent.
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mikeedols wrote:
damn that adagio, so beautiful
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guntero wrote:
un verdadero placer escucharlo
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exoapollo wrote:
my niggah
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DolceManabu wrote:
Magnifique
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Nivanee wrote:
^^
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ritsuka1988 wrote:
Touched for the Divinity <3
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Shrink125 wrote:
I'm with Grosseteste Tomaso Albinoni is more than sufficient, but then we also live on lastFM with Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber and many other inflated and conflated names. What I'm most interested in achieving is some sort of convergence regarding classical listening which gets fragmented all over the place due to idiosyncratic tagging.
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rasen-virus wrote:
oboe concertos<3
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Grosseteste wrote:
Given that he's most commonly known as "Tomaso Albinoni", and that the unnecessary use of his mifddle name seems confined largely to a handful of CD covers, it's odd (and not a little irritating) that the correct version directs here and not vice versa. The power of streamable tracks on Last.fm, again.
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sharwashere wrote:
<3
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arsennazaryan wrote:
eternity
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Beav wrote:
Is it true that Albinoni is taking over vocals for Heaven and Hell now that Dio is dead? [2]
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Borglanarg wrote:
Is it true that Albinoni is taking over vocals for Heaven and Hell now that Dio is dead?
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GINnoImoto wrote:
The best of the best! Pure catarsis!
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MelomanD wrote:
"Adagio in G minor" - на мой взгляд, одна из самых лучших и сильнейших композиций в мировой музыке. Хотя и печальна и навевает грусть. По эмоциональному накалу и содержанию можно сравнить с моцартовским "Реквием".
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Fe4nor wrote:
hey creeping death. on one hand i see clearly your point, but consider, it's more the pleasure to create than to earn recognition. that's my imagination of art. no, i won't lie. i admit it's a beautiful thing to have people who take them hat off to you. but if i had to choose between these two, i would take giazotto's destiny.
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Anjamascha wrote:
I agree that this one should be Tomaso Albinoni - classical tags are already too long without adding a never-used middle name.
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