Remo Giazotto

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Remo Giazotto (born in Rome, Italy 4 Sept. 1910, died in Pisa, 26 Aug. 1998) was an Italian musicologist, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of Tomaso Albinoni. He wrote biographies of Albinoni and other composers, including Vivaldi.

Giazotto served as a music critic (from 1932) and editor (1945-1949) of the Rivista musicale italiana and was appointed co-editor of the Nuova rivista musicale italiiana in 1967. He was a professor of the history of music at the University of Florence (1957-69) and in 1962 was nominated to the Acedemia Nazionale di S. Cecilia.

In 1949 Giazotto became the director of the chamber music programs for RAI (Radio Audizioni Italiane) and in 1966 its director of the international programs organized through the European Broadcasting Union. He was also the president of RAI's auditioning committee and editor of its series of biographies on composers.

He also arranged the famous Adagio in G minor based on a fragment of the composition by Albinoni in 1945, discovered in Dresden State Library shortly after the Second World War (at that time, he was also completing his biography and catalogue). The fragment contained only the bass line and six bars of the melody and is believed to have been the slow movement of a trio sonata.

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Il melodramma a Genova nei secoli XVII e XVIII (Genoa, 1941)

Tomaso albinoni, 'musico violino dilettante veneto' (1671-1750) (Milan, 1945)

Busoni: la vita nell opera (Milan, 1947)

la musica a Genova nella vita pubblica e privata dal XIII al XVIII secolo (Genoa, 1952)

peosia melodrammatica e pensiero critico nel Settecento (Milan, 1952)

'Il Patricio di Hercole Bottrigari dimostrato practicamente da un anonimo cinquecentesco', CHM, i (1953), 97-112

Harmonici concenti in aere veneto (Rome, 1955)

La musica italiana a Londra negli anni di Purcell (Rome, 1955)

Annali mozartiani (Milan, 1956)

Giovan Battista Viotti (Milan, 1956)

Musurgia nova (Mila, 1959)

Vita di Alessandro Stradella (Milan, 1962)

Vivaldi (Milan, 1965) La guerra dei palchi, NRMI, i (1967), 245-86, 465-508; iii (1969), 906-33; v (1971), 1304-52

'Nel CCC anno della morte di Antonio Cesti: ventidue lettere ritrovate nell' Archivio di Stato di Venezia', NRMI, iii (1969), 496-512