Sunday, August 10, 2014

Musical Moments: Adagio in G Minor

Famous adagio...


 
Autumn Leaves, youtube.com
 
 
 
 
Musical Moments:  Adagio in G Minor
 
 
Musical Moments features music and artists I've enjoyed over the years.
 
This week's selection is the famous Adagio in G Minor. 
 
 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 actually composed by the 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment of Albinoni, according to Wikipedia.
 
It has been the background music for a number of  films, including Rollerball, Gallipoli and Flashdance, Wikipedia reports.
 
 

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