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From 1932 he worked as a music critic for the Rivista musicale italiana moving on to become the editor in 1945 and retaining the position for 4 years until 1949. That year he was taken on by Radio Audizioni Italiene and appointed the Director of Chamber Music Programs. He also edited a series on biographies of composers and was made the President of the auditioning committee. In 1966 he became the Director of International Programs for the RAI, working on programs that were arranged by the European Broadcasting Union. In 1967 he returned to Rivista musiale italiana but this time as the co-editor of the Nuova rivista musicale italiana.

In the field of education he held the position of Professor of History of Music at the University of Florence from 1957 to 1969 and in between those years received a nomination for the Acedemia Nazionale di S. Cecilia in 1962.

In 1958 it is claimed that he managed to acquire a very small section of just a bass line of a compositional work by the composer Tomaso Albinoni from the Saxon State Library in Dresden. Arranging it into a piece that could be performed he created “Adagio in Sol Minore” popularly known as “Adagio in G Minor” for strings and organ. This piece has now become of the most popular classical pieces to be performed from Italy and it is often attributed to Remo Giazotto as the true composer. It has even been suggested by some that this may actually even have been his composition and not an original work by Albinoni at all, but just a clever way to get the piece distributed.

Throughout the time from the 1940s until his death he wrote several books, biographies and catalogues of composers works including Tomaso Albinoni, ‘musico violino dilettante veneto (1671-1750), Busoni: la vita nell opera, Harmonia concenti in aere veneto, Annali mozartiani, Giovan Battista Viotti and Vivaldi.

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields (ASMF) recordings

EMI Classics 5 66400 (CD: Baroque for Dummies)

Conductor - Neville Marriner

Violin - Iona Brown

Seraphim 5 73289 2 (CD: Classical Favorites)

Conductor - Neville Marriner

Violin - Iona Brown

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra recordings

Deutsche Grammophon DG 419 046-2 (CD: Albinoni/Pachelbel/Corelli & Manfredini/Vivaldi)

Conductor - Herbert Von Karajan

Organ - Wolfgang Meyer

Deutsche Grammophon DG. 445 282-2 (CD: Adagio - Karajan)

Conductor - Herbert von Karajan

Organ - David Bell

Violin - Leon Spierer

Deutsche Grammophon DG. 449 724-2 (CD: Respighi: Fontane Di Roma. Pina Di Roma etc.)

Conductor - Herbert von Karajan

Organ - Wolfgang Meyer

Cologne Chamber Orchestra recordings

Naxos 8.557124 (CD: Best of Baroque Music)

Conductor - Helmut Muller-Bruhl

Harpsichord - Harald Hoeren

Violin - Lisa Stewart

Violin - Christine Pichlmeir

Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra

Laserlight 15 688 (CD: Meditation - Classical Relaxation, Vol. 3)

Conductor - Herbert Kegel

English Chamber Orchestra recordings

London 425 201 (CD: Joy: Timeless Classics from the Guitar of Michael Conn)

Conductor - Leslie Williams

Guitar - Michael Conn

English String Orchestra recordings

Nimbus NI 7019 (CD: Orchestral Favourites Vol. 1: Pachelbel's Canon)

Conductor - William Boughton

The Eroica Trio recordings

EMI 57906 (CD: The Best of the Eroica Trio)

Hokan Hardenberger and Simon Preston recordings

Philips 434 074-2 (CD: Trumpet and Organ Spectacular)

Trumpet - Hokan Hardenberger

Organ - Simon Preston

I Solisti Veneti recordings

Erato ECD 15681 (CD: Albinoni's Adagios)

Conductor - Claudio Scimone

Lucerne Festival Strings recordings

Deutsche Grammophon DG 413 248 2 (CD: Adagio)

Conductor - Rudolf Baumgartner

Violin - Zino Francescatti

Violin - Regis Pasquier

Violin - Walter Prystawksi

Organ - Eduard Kaufman

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra recordings

Deutsche Grammophon 429 390-2 GH (CD: Albinoni: Adagio, Pachelbel: Canon)

Jean-Francois Paillard Chamber Orchestra recordings

Erato 2292 45200 2 (CD: Pachelbel Canon; Albinoni: Adagio)

Sara Sant'Ambrogio recordings

Sebastian Records 8 24611 02002 (CD: Dreaming)

Cello - Sara Sant'Ambrogio

Piano - Anyssa Neuman

Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra recordings

Decca 475 8073 (CD: Ultimate Baroque)

Conductor -Karl Munchinger

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