I was 16 years old and performing my first violin solo on live television. I stood in a cavernous cathedral holding my violin as the organ played a mournful introduction as I prepared to play the centuries-old violin solo in Tomasso Albinoni’s Adagio in G Minor. Except as it turns out, the piece likely was written in the 1950s by Remo Giazotto, a musicologist who claimed it was reconstructed from manuscript fragments found in Dresden after WWII. While the Adagio's content is beautiful a performer's interpretation may change when the true context of its provenance is revealed. Content and context also matter in legal documents, and sometimes context requires that a document be backdated. Read our newest blog article to learn when backdating is appropropriate -- and when it isn't.
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