Adagio in G minor for strings and organ is a piece arranged by Remo Giazotto and supposedly based on fragments from a Sonata in G minor by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni which were found amongst the ruins of the old Saxon State Library, Dresden, after it was firebombed by the Allies during World War II. The Adagio was first published in 1958. A string instrument (also stringed instrument) is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. ... Organ in Katharinenkirche, Frankfurt am Main, Germany The organ is a keyboard instrument played using one or more manuals and a pedalboard. ... Remo Giazotto (born in Rome, Italy 4 Sept. ... Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni (June 8, 1671, Venice, Italy – January 17, 1751, Venice) was an Italian baroque composer. ... The Saxon State Library ( Sächsische Landesbibliothek), Dresden is one of the main archival centers of Germany. ... Dresden (Sorbian: Drježdźany; etymologically from Old Sorbian Drežďany, meaning people of the riverside forest, Czech: ) is the capital city of the German Federal Free State of Saxony. ... The bombing of Dresden, led by the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and involving the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) between February 13 and February 15, 1945, remains one of the more controversial Allied actions of World War II. Historian Frederick Taylor says: The destruction of Dresden has an... Look up ally in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

The piece was repeatedly used as an underlying score for Orson Welles' adaption of Kafka's "The Trial". The piece has been used most notably in the 1981 Peter Weir film Gallipoli, which was themed around the famous World War I battle of the same name. The piece was also used throughout the episode "Dragon's Domain," from the first season of the mid-1970s sci-fi TV series Space: 1999, and later included on the expanded double-CD Year 1 soundtrack released in 1998. The Adagio has been used as background music in many television programmes and advertisements, including most recently, the popular BBC sitcom, Butterflies. Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language fiction writers of the 20th century. ... Peter Lindsay Weir (born August 21, 1944) is an Australian film director. ... Gallipoli is a 1981 Australian film, directed by Peter Weir and starring Mel Gibson, about several young men from rural Western Australia who enlist in the Australian Imperial Force during the First World War. ... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Dragons Domain was an episode of the science fiction television series Space 1999. ... Left to right: Barbara Bain, Catherine Schell and Martin Landau from Space:1999s second season. ... Butterflies was a situation comedy written by Carla Lane and shown on BBC 2 between 1978 and 1983. ...

It is most commonly orchestrated for string ensemble and organ, or string ensemble alone.

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Versions and appearances

• One example of a transcription is the recording of the Adagio by classical guitarist Dominic Miller, an Argentine-born musician who tours with Sting.
• The Doors 1978 album An American Prayer made use of the theme from the Adagio in G Minor, in addition to recording a version which was recently released as part of the Perception box set. During the 1980s Swedish-born guitarist Yngwie J. Malmsteen used the same work in the composition "Icarus Dream Suite", which he later used live during the intro for "Far Beyond the Sun", which can be heard on the Trial by Fire album. Recently Muse have played the theme as an intro to "Time Is Running Out" on their Black Holes and Revelations Tour.
• The piece was also used as a theme for the song Graveyard Angel by Louise Tucker and Charlie Skarbek for their rock/opera collaboration Midnight Blue.
• The piece is featured in the original Rollerball movie.
• In 1985, the Spanish singer Camilo Sesto made a heavily modified version of this piece, with lyrics, called "Mientras mi alma sienta" (While my soul can feel).
• It is also featured in the film Flashdance.
• The piece is sampled heavily by the trance group Rollerball. It was called Albinoni and it was released in 2003 on the Anjunabeats Record label.
• The piece was sampled in Tiësto's song Athena.
• The piece is also used in the Swedish Film Fucking Åmål (1998).
• An international singer Lara Fabian released English and Italian versions of the song in her 1999 single Adagio. Both versions appear in her self-titled album Lara Fabian (2000).
• An arranged version of this piece is also used in the Japanese animation Negima!? (2006).
• Pianist/keyboardist Bradley Joseph introduced his arrangement of Albinoni's "Adagio in Gm" on the 2005 album, For the Love of It.
• A remix of it (arranged by Lee Jackson) can be found as one of the songs of the computer game Rise of the Triad (1994). Since the game has a fairly big amount of songs, it's advisable to use the song selection cheat (type DIPSTICK to enable cheats, then type MAESTRO) to choose it directly.
• The Adagio in G minor forms the musical component of Sarah Brightman's song Anytime, Anywhere.

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See also

Other notable Adagios in G minor include:

• Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso Op 6 No. 8
• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Pieces (29) for Mechanical Clock, Wq 193, H635 No.28