Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8th 1671 - January 17th 1751), born and died in Venice, is a Violoniste and a Italian Compositeur .

Biography

It is a Violoniste and a Maître of famous song, but one is unaware of which was its formation (certain musicologists advance the name of Legrenzi). Resulting from a very easy family - paper merchants -, Albinoni can be devoted to the Musique without fear of money worries. It describes itself as dilettante veneto . As an oldest son, his father intends it to take again the interests of the family company. However, after the death of this one in 1709, Tomaso gives up the responsibility for the company to his/her two younger brothers, and is devoted only to the Musique, being qualified this time of musico di violino . He marries the Cantatrice operas Margherita Raimondi, deceased in 1721. Starting from 1741, ten years before its death, there does not exist any more any document relating to it - perhaps because of a disease.

Bach was interested in its compositions, and even borrowed musical topics to him. It also let realize by its pupils of the partitions of Albinoni containing only the low one quantified.

Works

Albinoni composed approximately 80 opera S of which there remain practically nothing. Indeed, nearly 70 of these partitions were destroyed during the Bombardement of Dresden, in February 1945. One knows however that his operas were frequently represented out of Italy in the years 1720, in particular in Munich. In addition to about thirty Cantata S of which only one was published (Amsterdam, about 1701), it is its instrumental work which reached us, thanks to a printed publication:

• COp 1: 12 Suonate has tre, published in Venice in 1694

• COp 2: 6 Sinfonie & 6 concerti have 5, published in Venice in 1700
• COp 3: 12 Baletti has tre, published in Venice in 1701
• COp 4: 6 Sonata da chiesa for violin & B.C., published at Roger in Amsterdam towards 1709
• COp 5: 12 Concerti cinque (& B.C.), published in Venice in 1707
• COp 6: 12 Trattenimenti armonici per camera for violin, violone and harpsichord, published in Amsterdam towards 1712
• COp 7: 12 Concerti has cinque for one or two oboes & cords, published in Amsterdam in 1715
• COp 8: 6 Balletti E 6 Sonata has tre, published in Amsterdam in 1722
• COp 9: 12 Concerti has cinque for one or two oboes & cords, published in Amsterdam in 1722
• COp 10: 12 does Concerti have cinque for 3 violins, viola, violoncello & B.C., published in Amsterdam (? 1735-36)

as well as a score of other works without number of opus, whose majority remain in the form of manuscripts.

The Adagio of Albinoni , very known of the general public, is actually a made up work in 1945 by Remo Giazotto, starting from a fragment of movement of Sonate in trio found among the ruins of the library of Dresden.

Partitions on line

• 6 sonatas da chiesa, 12 sonatas of room, the adagio and a continuation

See too

• List of the Violonist S.