Remo Giazotto
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Remo Giazotto (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. Giazotto 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. Giazotto composed the now-famous Adagio in 1945.