The resulting composition, known as Albinoni's Adagio, bears little resemblance to most of Albinoni's work and is considered fraudulent by most scholars.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'

He believed these notes were the work of the seventeenth-century Venetian composer Tomaso Albinoni, and spent the next twelve years reconstructing a larger piece from the charred manuscript fragment.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'

If, after several hours, this hope doesn't return, he will pause to gather himself, and then he and his cello will coax Albinoni's Adagio out of the firebombed husk of Dresden and into the mortar-pocked, sniper-infested streets of Sarajevo.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'

He'll play Albinoni's Adagio.

NPR: Excerpt: 'The Cellist Of Sarajevo'