Adagio in g minor for flute, strings and organ (arr. James Strauss) by Tomaso Albinoni Sheet Music for Orchestra at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Tomaso Albinoni

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Tomaso Albinoni

Arranger James Strauss

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 28

Arrangement Orchestra

Publisher James Strauss

Product ID 1131398

Genre Baroque

Performance Group String Orchestra

Product Description

The composition is often referred to as "Albinoni's Adagio" or "Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, arranged by Giazotto", but the attribution is incorrect. The ascription to Albinoni rests upon Giazotto's purported discovery of a manuscript fragment (consisting of a few opening measures of the melody line and basso continuo portion) from a slow second movement of an otherwise unknown Albinoni trio sonata.Musicologist Muska Mangano, Giazotto's last assistant, claimed to have discovered a modern but independent manuscript transcription of the figured bass portion and six fragmentary bars of the first violin, "bearing in the top right-hand corner a stamp stating unequivocally the Dresden provenance of the original from which it was taken". The scholarly consensus is that the Adagio is Giazotto's composition, whatever source may have inspired him.The piece is most commonly orchestrated for string ensemble and organ, or string ensemble alone, but with its growing fame has been transcribed for other instruments, like here with flute soloist.

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