Remo Giazotto

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Remo Giazotto (4 September 1910, Rome - 26 August 1998, Pisa) 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.

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He also claimed to have received a fragment of a composition by Albinoni from the hands of the Saxon State Library from which in 1958 he created a composition for strings and organ known as the Adagio in G minor. He stated that the fragment contained only the bass line which served as starting point for his arrangement, yet the composition's copyright note referring to his own name, and the fact that the Albinoni fragment has never appeared in public, suggest that this was in fact an ingenious way to distribute the piece, but not an original by Albinoni himself.[1]

[edit] Writings

  • 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

[edit] References

  1. ^ Letter from the Saxon State Library (consultant Marina Lang), 24 September 1990, reproduced in facsimile by Wulf Dieter Lugert and Volker Schütz, „Adagio à la Albinoni“, Praxis des Musikunterrichts 53 (February 1998), pp. 13–22, here 15.