ALBINONI - Adagio (Death Triumphal)

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra directed by Jaime Laredo (1985, Innovative Music Products Ltd.-Hallmark Classics-Carlton Music) - Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (8 June 1671, Venice, Republic of Venice 17 January 1751, Venice, Republic of 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.
The Albinoni Adagio in G minor is a 1958 composition entirely composed by Remo Giazotto, which Giazotto claimed to have based on fragments from a slow movement of an Albinoni trio sonata he had been sent by the Dresden State Library.
The Adagio in G minor for strings and organ continuo is a neo-baroque composition by Remo Giazotto first published in 1958. It is usually referred to as "Albinoni's Adagio", or "Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, arranged by Giazotto", but it has been established as an entirely original work by Giazotto.
It was supposedly based on a fragment of a second-movement continuo from a "Sonata in G minor" by Tomaso Albinoni purportedly found among the ruins of the old Saxon State Library, Dresden, after it was firebombed by the Allies during World War II, but since Giazotto's death in 1998 it has emerged that the piece is all his composition, as no such fragment has been found or recorded to have been in possession by the Saxon State Library.
The piece is most commonly orchestrated for string ensemble and organ, or string ensemble alone, but has achieved a level of fame such that it is commonly transcribed for other instruments. The piece has also permeated popular culture, having been used as background music for such films as Gallipoli (1981 dir. Peter Weir), television programmes and in advertisements to the point of becoming a cliché for self-consciously "sad" moments.
(inf. from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

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[Annetje99]

It's not from Albinoni. It's from Remo Giazotto. He fraudulously attributed this to Albinoni.

More info at Wikipedia: Adagio in G minor

[ensimon]

@Annetje99 The extract from Wilipedia about the real composer of Adagio is already included in my comments above...

[sailingsam]

beautiful version by Jamie Laredo

[BeezoHow]

This video has thoroughly bummed me out. Now I need to go watch cat videos. :(

[desertstormpawnage]

@Annetje99 Haha.. Wikipedia.

[alexairlie]

Excellent !