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Six Flute Concertos, Op. 10, in Full Score: With Related Concertos for Other Wind Instruments
One of the most prolific and influential composers of the Baroque era, Vivaldi is especially noted for his compositions for violin, e.g., The Four Seasons. He was equally at home in composing for other instruments, however, including the flute, recorder, and bassoon. This volume comprises a selection of his finest compositions for wind instruments, including six concertos for flute and Concerto No. 1 in F Major, "The Tempest" (RV 433); Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, "Night" (RV 439); Concerto No. 3 in D Major, "The Bullfinch" (RV 428); Concerto No. 4 in G Major (RV 435); Concerto No. 5 in F Major (RV 434); and Concerto No. 6 in G Major (RV 437). Also here are four "related" Concerto No. 1b, variant (RV 570) for Flute, Oboe, Bassoon, and Strings; Concerto No. 2c, variant (RV 501) for Bassoon and Strings; Concerto RV 422 for (Soprano) Recorder in F Minor; and Concerto RV 444 for Sopranino Recorder in C Major. Musicians and music lovers will appreciate this convenient compilation of rewarding works by the Italian master, edited and with an introduction by Italian Baroque music expert Eleanor Selfridge-Field
192 pages, Paperback
First published October 22, 2002
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Antonio Vivaldi
2,208 books12 followersPeople best know Italian composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi particularly for
The Four Seasons
(1725), a set of violin concertos.
People recognized the greatness of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, a Baroque red-haired priest and virtuoso, whose influence spread widely over Europe during his lifetime.
Vivaldi began studying for the priesthood at the age of 15 years in 1693, and the bishop ordained him ordained at 25 years of age in 1703 but due to a health problem gave him dispensation to no longer say public Mass.
This Venetian virtuoso and impresario wrote Baroque music. People regard Vivaldi alongside Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel of the greatest Baroque, and his widespread influence during his lifetime across Europe gave origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, technique, and programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging form into a widely accepted and paramount followed idiom in the development of instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Antonio Vivaldi wrote much for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children and his employer from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also succeeded some with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua, and Vienna. Vivaldi mainly developed and wrote a variety of especially sacred choral or instrumental music and more than forty of fifty operas. He worked a series.
After meeting Charles VI Habsburg, the emperor, Vivaldi moved to Vienna and expected preferment and royal support. After arrival of Antonio Vivaldi, however, the emperor quickly died. Impoverished Vivaldi died within less than a year.
People received music of Vivaldi during his lifetime, but his musical reputation later declined in popularity for more than two centuries until it underwent a vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century. Today, Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded of Baroque. Scholars devoted much research to his work.
People once lost many works of Vivaldi but rediscovered them in one case as recently as 2006. People regularly and widely play his music in the present day over the world.
People recognized the greatness of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, a Baroque red-haired priest and virtuoso, whose influence spread widely over Europe during his lifetime.
Vivaldi began studying for the priesthood at the age of 15 years in 1693, and the bishop ordained him ordained at 25 years of age in 1703 but due to a health problem gave him dispensation to no longer say public Mass.
This Venetian virtuoso and impresario wrote Baroque music. People regard Vivaldi alongside Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel of the greatest Baroque, and his widespread influence during his lifetime across Europe gave origin to many imitators and admirers. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, technique, and programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging form into a widely accepted and paramount followed idiom in the development of instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Antonio Vivaldi wrote much for the all-female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for abandoned children and his employer from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740. Vivaldi also succeeded some with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua, and Vienna. Vivaldi mainly developed and wrote a variety of especially sacred choral or instrumental music and more than forty of fifty operas. He worked a series.
After meeting Charles VI Habsburg, the emperor, Vivaldi moved to Vienna and expected preferment and royal support. After arrival of Antonio Vivaldi, however, the emperor quickly died. Impoverished Vivaldi died within less than a year.
People received music of Vivaldi during his lifetime, but his musical reputation later declined in popularity for more than two centuries until it underwent a vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century. Today, Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded of Baroque. Scholars devoted much research to his work.
People once lost many works of Vivaldi but rediscovered them in one case as recently as 2006. People regularly and widely play his music in the present day over the world.
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