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Vivaldi used the cello as a solo instrument in several compositions, which was a new trend during the period. He composed 27 concertos for cello, string orchestra and basso continuo. [2] Among these cello concertos, RV 531 is the only one for two cellos. [3] Vivaldi composed it possibly in the 1720s in Venice. [4]
For example, Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons, made up of four violin concertos (not sequentially numbered because they are in different keys), and his famous lute concerto are named and numbered as follows: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 – "La primavera" (Spring) Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 – "L'estate" (Summer)
A set of twelve concertos was published by Estienne Roger in 1716-1717 under Antonio Vivaldi's name, as his Opus 7. They were in two volumes, each containing concertos numbered 1-6. They were in two volumes, each containing concertos numbered 1-6.
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon la Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8) The following is a list of compositions by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741).
First movement of Vivaldi's 5th concerto from Agrell's Easy Genteel Lessons for the Harpsichord. Selfridge-Field describes these as replacing "the virile acrobatics of Vivaldi's violino principale [by] the gentle graces of virginal ornamentation: shakes, coulées, long apoggiaturas, and so forth".
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène’s edition of Vivaldi’s Op. 8, 1725) Title page, 1725. Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) is a set of twelve concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi and published in 1725 as Op. 8.
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Vivaldi. Antonio Vivaldi wrote a set of concerti, Op. 11, in 1729. Concerto No. 1 for violin, strings and continuo in D Major, RV 207; Allegro Largo Allegro. Concerto No. 2 for violin, strings and figured bass in E minor, "Il favorito", RV 277; Allegro Andante Allegro. Concerto No. 3 for violin, strings and figured bass in A Major, RV 336 ...