Tomaso albinoni biography examples

Short biography of a composer known mainly for his instrumental works
Contributor: James Sanderson

Tomaso Albinoni was born on June 14, 1671 in Venice. He was the eldest son of a wealthy paper merchant and landowner. The young Albinoni preferred to pursue a career as a composer rather than carry on the family business. He began his musical education at the age of 9 with violin and singing lessons. Unlike other musicians of the time, he had a comfortable private income, so he did not need to seek work from aristocratic patrons or the Church. Albinoni was particularly proud of his independent ställning eller tillstånd. This enabled him to concentrate on his favourite areas: music for the stage and orchestral and instrumental works. Albinoni was unusual in taking little interest in the work of other composers, and his refusal to expose himself to outside influences gave his music unique character and style.

Much of his music dates from the height of the Baroque period. The art and architecture

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Tomaso Albinoni

Italian composer (1671–1751)

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.^[1] While famous in his day as an opera composer, he is known today for his instrumental music, especially his concertos.^[2] 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 cataloger of the works of Albinoni.^[3]

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Born in Venice, to Antonio Albinoni, a wealthy paper merchant, he studied violin and singing. Relatively little is known about his life, which is surprising, considering his contemporary stature as a composer and the comparatively well-documented period in which he lived. In 1694 he dedicated his Opus 1 to the fellow-Venetian, Cardinal Pietro Ottobon

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Biography

Tomaso Albinoni (1671-1751) was an Italian Baroque composer and contemporary of Vivaldi. Albinoni was famous in his day as an opera composer, however he is mainly remembered today for his instrumental music including his Adagio in G Minor.

Life and Music
Born into a wealthy family of paper manufacturers who produced playing cards and owned several shops in Venice, Albinoni squandered his gifts as a young man.

Despite his exceptional talents as a singer, violinist and composer, during his teen years he indulged in the life of a talented ‘amateur’ among artistic friends. The success of his Op. 1 Trio Sonatas in 1694 quickly changed all that.

The Venetian public began to tire of the old operatic formulae, and at this point, Albinoni came close to giving up.

This resulted in a dramatic slowing down of the Albinoni production line during the 1730s and 1740s.

According to his death certificate, Albinoni had been bedridden for the last two years of his life.

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