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Adagio in G minor for strings and organ is a piece composed by Remo Giazotto and first published in 1958.
It was supposedly based on a fragment from a Sonata in G minor by Tomaso Albinoni purportedly found amongst the ruins of the old Saxon State Library, Dresden, after it was firebombed by the Allies during World War II. It is usually referred to as "Albinoni's Adagio", or "Adagio in G minor by Albinoni, arranged by Giazotto", but it is Giazotto's original work, and contains no Albinoni material1.
The Adagio is most commonly orchestrated for string ensemble and organ, or string ensemble alone.
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Contemporary performances and popular culture use
The Adagio in G minor has achieved a level of fame such that it is commonly transcribed for other instruments, and used in popular culture, for example as background music for films (Gallipoli, 1981, which is set in 1915–1916 during the World War I battle of the same name) and television programs and in advertisements.
The piece was used in pop music by
- Renaissance, in their song Cold Is Being on the album Turn Of The Cards (1974) [1]
- The Doors, in the title song of the album An American Prayer (1978)
- Yngwie Malmsteen, in Icarus Dream Suite Op. 4
- DJ Tiesto, in Athena on the album Parade of the Athletes (2004)
Use in film
The Adagio was used:
- as an underlying score for Orson Welles' film adaption of Kafka's The Trial (1962)
- in the original version of the film Rollerball (1975)
- in the 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli, which was themed around the famous World War I battle of the same name.
- as a recurring theme in Rudolf Thome's film Rote Sonne from 1969.
- in the animted film Captain Harlock - Arcadia of My Youth from 1982.
- in the 1983 film "Flashdance" starring Jennifer Beals and Michael Nouri.
- in the 1989 classic Russian animated film "Adagio" by Garry Bardin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG-TL0S3sN8).
- in the 1998 film "Show Me Love" (Fucking Åmål) by Lukas Moodysson
Use in television
- as background music in the '70s sci-fi series Space 1999 (1975-77)
References
- ^ 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.
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