TIL that Albinoni (1671–1751) didn’t compose the famous ‘Adagio in G minor’; it was written in 1945 by Italian musicologist Remo Giazotto (1910–1998), who said he based it on fragments found in the Dresden State Library. The manuscript didn’t exist, so the piece is now credited entirely to Giazotto.

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