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By :Manuel ErreaCarlos Carrillo

Index• About his life• More About His Life• Most famous works• Other• Interesting things

Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

• Venice, June 8, 1671 • Was an Italian Baroque

composer. • In his time he was famous

as an opera composer• But now is best known for

his instrumental music. • His father was a wealthy

paper merchant in Venice.

More About His Life• Death: Venice, 17 January

1751• He studied violin and

singing. • Relatively little is known of

his life• Taking into account its

contemporary significance as a composer and the fact that he lived for a relatively well documented.

• In 1694 he dedicated his Opus 1 to his fellow-Venetian Pietro, Cardinal Ottoboni.

Most famous works

• 36 Sonata (Sonate da camera, da chiesa, Balleti e Canoni) a tre

• 18 Sonate a due

• 6 Sonate a cinque

• 42 Concerti a cinque

other• Zenobia (1694) • Il prodigio dell'Innocenza (1695) • Zenone (1696) • Tigrane (1697) • Primislao (1697) • L'ingratitudine castigata (1698) • Il Radamisto (1698) • Diomede punito da Alcide (1700

) • L'inganno innocente (1702) • L'arte in gara con l'arte (1702) • La Griselda (libreto de Apostolo

Zeno, 1703) • La fede tra gl'inganni (1707) • Elio Seiano (1707) • Astarto (1708) • Pimpinone (intermezzo, 1708) • Tradimento tradito (1708)

Interesting things.• He's reaching fame

and soon he'll be as famous as Vivaldi

• When he was 70 years old, his health became deteriorating, abandoning its public activities.

• He died 2 years later.

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