Remo Giazotti
Remo Giazotti (born in
Rome,
Italy in
1910) is an Italian musicologist, mostly known through his systematic catalogue of the works of
Tomaso Albinoni. He also wrote a biography of Albinoni. He is also the composer of the famous
Adagio that is always wrongly attributed to Albinoni. Giazotti based it on a fragment of music by Albinoni that he discovered in the
Dresden State Library shortly after the Second World War (at that time, he was also completing his biography and catalogue). The fragment only contained the bass line and six bars of melody. It is believed to have been the slow movement of a trio
sonata. Giazotti composed the now-famous Adagio in
1945.