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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).
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725). The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year.
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.
La cetra (Vivaldi) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione; Concerto alla rustica; Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531; Concerto for Two Trumpets (Vivaldi) Concerto in C major, RV 558; Concerto in C major, RV 559
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)
Vivaldi composed a few concertos specifically for L'estro armonico, while other concertos of the set had been composed at an earlier date. Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot described the set as "perhaps the most influential collection of instrumental music to appear during the whole of the eighteenth century".
Title page Dedication page. La stravaganza [literally 'Extravagance'] (The Eccentricity), Op. 4, is a set of concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1712–1713. The set was first published in 1716 in Amsterdam and was dedicated to Venetian nobleman Vettor Delfino, [1] who had been a violin student of Vivaldi's. [2]
Concerto a cinque in A major, for violin, strings, and continuo; Concerto a cinque in D major, for violin, strings, and continuo; Concerto a otto strumenti in D major, for violin solo, two trumpets, two oboes, strings, and continuo (1711) Henri Vieuxtemps. Violin Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 10 (1840)