Adagio in G minor [SEP] instrumentation
Adagio in G minor
The 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 20th-century musicologist and Albinoni biographer Remo Giazotto, purportedly based on the discovery of a manuscript fragment by Albinoni. There is a continuing scholarly debate about whether the alleged fragment was real, or a musical hoax perpetrated by Giazotto, but there is no doubt about Giazotto's authorship of the remainder of the work.
Gallimathias musicum
A typical performance of this piece lasts twenty minutes.
Instrumentation and structure.
The work is scored for strings, two horns, two oboes, bassoon and harpsichord and consists of seventeen movements:
1. Molto allegro
2. Andante in D minor
3. Allegro
4. Pastorella in G major
5. Allegro
6. Allegretto in A major
7. Allegro
8. Molto adagio in G major
9. Allegro in C major
10. Largo in D