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{{Infobox classical composer<br />
| name = Tomaso Albinoni<br />
| image = Albinoni.jpg<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1671|06|08}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Venice]], [[Republic of Venice]]<br />
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1751|01|17|1671|06|08}}<br />
| death_place = Venice, Republic of Venice<br />
| list_of_works = [[List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni]]<br />
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'''Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni''' (8 June 1671 – 17 January 1751) was an Italian composer of the Baroque era. His output includes operas, concertos, sonatas for one to six instruments, sinfonias, and solo cantatas.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Norwich|first=John Julius|title=Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia Of The Arts|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordillustrate00norw|url-access=limited|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1990|isbn=978-0198691372|location=USA|pages=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordillustrate00norw/page/11 11]}}</ref> While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos.<ref name="britannica">{{Britannica|13006|Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni}}</ref> He is best remembered today for a work called "[[Adagio in G minor]]", attributed to him but largely written by [[Remo Giazotto]], a 20th-century [[musicologist]] and composer, who was a cataloguer of the works of Albinoni.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.classicfm.com/composers/albinoni/music/tomaso-albinoni-adagio-g-minor/|title=Tomaso Albinoni: Adagio in G minor}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Albinoni was born in [[Venice]], at the time part of the [[Republic of Venice]], but now in Italy. His father was Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant. Tomaso studied violin and singing; in 1694, he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian, Cardinal [[Pietro Ottoboni (cardinal)|Pietro Ottoboni]] (grand-nephew of [[Pope Alexander VIII]]). His first opera, ''[[Zenobia (Albinoni)|Zenobia, regina de Palmireni]]'', was produced in Venice in 1694. Albinoni was possibly employed in 1700 as a violinist to [[Charles IV, Duke of Mantua]], to whom he dedicated his Opus 2 collection of instrumental pieces. In 1701 he wrote his hugely popular suites Opus 3, and dedicated that collection to [[Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany]].<ref name="britannica" /><br />
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In 1705, he married Margherita Rimondi. At the ceremony, Antonino Biffi, the ''maestro di cappella'' of [[San Marco di Venezia|San Marco]] was a witness, and evidently was a friend of Albinoni. The Albinonis had six children but their names are not recorded.<br />
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Albinoni achieved his early fame as an opera composer in many cities in Italy, including Venice, [[Genoa]], [[Bologna]], [[Mantua]], [[Udine]], [[Piacenza]], and [[Naples]]. During this time, he was also composing instrumental music in abundance: prior to 1705, he mostly wrote [[trio sonata]]s and [[violin concerto]]s, but between then and 1719 he wrote solo [[sonata (music)|sonatas]] and [[oboe concertos|concertos for oboe]].<ref name="britannica" /><br />
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Unlike most contemporary composers, he appears never to have sought a post at either a church or [[noble court]], but rather had independent means through which he could afford to compose music without a salaried position. In 1722, [[Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria]], to whom Albinoni had dedicated a set of twelve concertos, invited him to direct two of his operas in [[Munich]].<br />
Part of Albinoni's work was lost in [[World War II]] with the destruction of the [[Saxon State Library|Dresden State Library]]. As a result, little is known of his life and music after the mid-1720s.<br />
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Around 1740, a collection of Albinoni's [[violin sonata]]s was published in France as a posthumous work, and scholars long presumed that meant that Albinoni had died by that time. However, it appears he lived on in Venice in obscurity; a record from the parish of San Barnaba indicates Tomaso Albinoni died in Venice in 1751, of [[diabetes mellitus]].<ref>Giazotto, Remo (1945) Tomaso Albinoni : musico di violino dilettante veneto : (1671–1750) : con il catalogo tematico delle musiche per strumenti, 197 esempi musicali e 14 tavole fuori testo; Milano : F.lli Bocca.</ref> He was 79 years old.<br />
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==Music and influence==<br />
{{further|List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni}}<br />
[[File:Albinoni - Egizio - Colla by Pietro Bettelini.png|thumb|Engraving of Italian composers Tomaso Albinoni, [[Domenico Gizzi]] (Egizio) and Giuseppe Colla by [[Pietro Bettelini]], after a drawing by Luigi Scotti]]<br />
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Most of his operatic works have been lost - either because they were never published or because they were destroyed. However, nine collections of instrumental works were published. These met with considerable success and consequent reprints. He is therefore today better known as a composer of instrumental music (99 sonatas, 59 concerti and 9 sinfonie). In his lifetime these works were compared favourably with those of [[Arcangelo Corelli]] and [[Antonio Vivaldi]]. His nine collections published in Italy, Amsterdam, and London were either dedicated to or sponsored by an impressive list of southern European nobility. Albinoni wrote at least fifty operas, of which twenty-eight were produced in Venice between 1723 and 1740. Albinoni himself claimed 81 operas (naming his second-to-last opera, in the libretto, as his 80th).<ref name="Grove1">.Michael Talbot, "Tomaso Albinoni", Grove Music On-line. Oxford Music On-line, http://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/subscriber/article/grove/music/00461 (accessed 30 December 2011).</ref><ref name="baroquemusic.org">{{cite web| url = http://www.baroquemusic.org/bqxalb.html| title = Baroque Composers and Musicians: Tomaso Albinoni}}</ref> In spite of his enormous operatic output, today he is most noted for his instrumental music, especially his oboe concerti (from ''12 Concerti a cinque'' op. 7 and, most famously, ''[[12 Concerti a cinque (Albinoni)|12 Concerti a cinque]]'' op. 9). He is the first Italian known to employ the oboe as a solo instrument in concerti (c. 1715, in his op. 7) and publish such works,<ref>George J. Buelow, [https://books.google.com/books?id=aw1TTtpp4FwC&pg=PA467 ''A history of baroque music''], Indiana University Press, 2004, p. 467.</ref> although earlier concerti featuring solo oboe were probably written by German composers such as [[Telemann]] or [[Handel|Händel]].<ref name="baroquemusic.org"/> In Italy, [[Alessandro Marcello]] published his well-known oboe concerto in D minor a little later, in 1717. Albinoni also employed the instrument often in his [[Chamber music|chamber works]] and operas.<br />
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His instrumental music attracted great attention from [[Johann Sebastian Bach]], who never visited Italy but had access to Italian music, particularly when working in [[Weimar]] for the ducal court. Bach wrote [[List of fugal works by Johann Sebastian Bach#Fugues and fughettas (BWV 944–962)|at least two fugues on Albinoni's themes]] (''Fugue in A major on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni,'' [[Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis|BWV]] 950, and ''Fugue in B minor on a theme by Tomaso Albinoni'', BWV 951) and frequently used his [[Bass (sound)|basses]] for harmonic exercises for his pupils. <br />
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The famous ''Adagio in G minor'', the subject of many modern recordings, is thought by some to be a [[musical hoax]] composed by [[Remo Giazotto]]. However, a discovery by musicologist Muska Mangano, Giazotto's last assistant before his death, has cast some doubt on that belief. Among Giazotto's papers, Mangano discovered a modern but independent manuscript transcription of the [[figured bass]] portion, and six fragmentary bars of the first violin, "bearing in the top right-hand corner a stamp stating unequivocally the [[Dresden]] provenance of the original from which it was taken". This provides support for Giazotto's account that he did base his composition on an earlier source.<ref>Nicola Schneider, "La tradizione delle opere di Tomaso Albinoni a Dresda", tesi di laurea specialistica (Cremona: Facoltà di musicologia dell'Università degli studi di Pavia, 2007): pp. 181–86.</ref><br />
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==References==<br />
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*Eleanor Selfridge-Field, ''Venetian Instrumental Music, from Gabrieli to Vivaldi.'' New York, Dover Publications, 1994. {{ISBN|0-486-28151-5}}<br />
*Michael Talbot: "Tomaso Albinoni", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed June 25, 2005), [http://www.grovemusic.com (subscription access)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516041031/http://www.grovemusic.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }}<br />
*Franco Rossi: ''Catalogo Tematico delle composizioni di Tomaso Albinoni Tomo I – Le 12 opere strumentali a stampa'' – edition "[[I Solisti Veneti]]", Padova 2002<br />
*Franco Rossi: ''Catalogo Tematico delle composizioni di Tomaso Albinoni Tomo II – Le opere strumentali manoscritte – Le opere vocali – I libretti'' – edition "[[I Solisti Veneti]]", Padova 2003<br />
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