ADAGIO IN SOL MINORE

Created on 04/05/2007
Latest update on 22/04/2023

Artist: Tomaso Albinoni
Author: Tomaso Albinoni
Year: 1720s

Venetian violinist and barok composer (1671-1751). Bach was a fan. At least two of his fugues were inspired by Albinoni themes.

Covers:

1945:

Remo Giazotto [world famous adaptation for organ and strings (see footnote)]

1961:

Tino Rossi [as Tout le bonheur du monde]

1961:

Danielle Darrieux [idem]

1963:

France Gall [as J'entends cette musique]

1965:

Wilma Goich [as Il Diritto Di Amare]

1966:

Liesbeth List [as De Kinderen Van De Zee]

1966:

Ken Dodd [as Dreams]

1968:

Udo Jürgens [as Adagio]

1969:

Colette Deréal [as Tout le bonheur du monde]

1970:

Ekseption

1970:

Brian Auger & The Trinity [as Adagio Per Archi E Organo]

1972:

Karel Gott [as Nütze deine Zeit]

1974:

Renaissance [as Cold Is Being]

1976:

Procol Harum [as Adagio d'Albinoni]

1978:

Thijs van Leer [on Introspection 3]

1989:

Sigue Sigue Sputnik [as Albinoni vs. Star Wars; small hit UK]

1991:

Mireille Mathieu [as Enfants d'amour et d'avenir]

1994:

Nana Mouskouri [as Adagio]

1999:

Lara Fabian [as Adagio, power ballad with own English lyrics; hit Fr & B; also cut an Italian version]

The authentic sheet music didn't survive the bombing of Dresden at the end of WW II. The local State Library stocked all of Albinoni's later manuscripts, so we're not sure when exactly he wrote it. In any case later than the mid 1720s. In need for a chronological list of Albinoni's later work, Milanese musicologist Remo Giazotto desperately seeked the Dresden rumble, only to find a bass part and six melody lines of an unknown trio sonata, which he used to reconstruct what he called Adagio In G Minor. And so Albinoni wouldn't even recognize his own masterpiece.

Contact


If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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