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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]
Concerto No. 8 for violin, strings and basso continuo in G major, RV 299; Allegro assai Largo, cantabile Allegro. Concerto No. 9 for violin, strings and basso continuo in B-flat major, RV Anh. 153 (inauthentic) Allegro Grave Alla breve. Concerto No. 10 for violin, strings and basso continuo in F major, "Il Ritiro", RV 294a; Allegro Adagio Allegro
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)
In each consecutive group of three concertos, the first is a concerto for four violins, the second for two violins, and the third a solo violin concerto. The cello gets solistic passages in several of the concertos for four and two violins, so that a few of the concertos conform to the traditional Roman concerto grosso format where a concertino ...
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.
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).
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 ...
Grosso mogul, also Il grosso mogul, or capitalised [Il] Grosso Mogul ([The] Great Moghul), RV 208, is a violin concerto in D major by Antonio Vivaldi. [1] [2] [3] The concerto, in three movements, is an early work by the Venetian composer. [4] Around the mid-1710s Johann Sebastian Bach transcribed the concerto for organ, BWV 594, in C major. [5]