Tomaso AlbinoniAdagio

Transcription for guitar byMauro Henrique Pavanelli

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Biographical note:

Tomaso Albinoni, oldest son of a wealthy papermerchant, was born in Venice in 1671. At an early agehe became proficient as a singer and, more notably, as aviolinist, soon turning his hand to composition. Until hisfather's death in 1709, he was able to cultivate musicmore for pleasure than for profit, referring to himself as“dilettante”, - a term which in 18th century Italy wastotally devoid of unfavorable connotations. Under theterms of his father's will he was relieved of the duty(which he would normally have assumed as oldest son)to take charge of the family business, and this taskdevolved on to his younger brothers. Henceforth he wasto be a full-time musician, who according to one report,at one time ran a successful academy of singing. Heresided in Venice all his life, though visits to Florence(1703) and Munich (1722) are recorded. After a longperiod of inactivity he died in 1751.

In his youth Albinoni flirted unsuccessfully with thecomposition of church music. He first came to publicnotice as a composer when, in 1694, his first opera,“Zenobia, regina de Palmireni”, was produced in Veniceand his first collection of instrumental music (“Sonata atre, op.1”) appeared. Thereafter he divided his attentionalmost equally between vocal composition (operas,serenatas and cantatas) and instrumental composition(sonatas and concertos). His vocal music circulated onlyin manuscript, apart from twelve cantatas published in1702 as his op.4 and one cantata that appearedelsewhere, and was comparatively little known outsideItaly. His instrumental music (108 works published asop. 1-3 and 5-10, plus 17 works published inunauthorized; collections and about 50 authenticatedworks remaining in manuscript) enjoyed a vogue innorthern Europe, particularly through the activity ofpublishing houses in Amsterdam and London.

The Albinoni´s Adagio

This peace is based on a fragment of manuscriptdiscovered in the Dresden State Library after the SecondWorld War by Remo Giazotto, a Milanese musicologistwho was at that time completing his biography ofAlbinoni and his listing of Albinoni's music. Only thebass line and six bars of melody had survived, possiblyfrom the slow movement of a Trio Sonata. Giazotto"reconstructed" the now-famous Adagio in about 1945,based on the surviving fragment.

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AdagioTomaso Albinoni 1671 - 1751

Transcription for guitar by:Mauro Henrique Pavanellisologuitarsociety@mpavanelli.comBrasil - 2002

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