SONATA FOR VIOLIN AND BASSO CONTINUO RV 829

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Series: CRITICAL EDITIONS
Publisher: Ricordi
Format: Softcover
Composer: Antonio Vivaldi
Arranger: Fabrizio Ammetto, Javier Lupianez

In a miscellaneous manuscript in the Este Music Collection belonging to the Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna, a new sonata for violin and basso continuo by Antonio Vivaldi has recently been identified. Although it has until now been attributed by default to the Bolognese Giuseppe Aldrovandini, by virtue of a heading written (but subsequently rubbed out) by the copyist of the manuscript on one of the pages of the violin part, this sonata has been recognized as an authentic composition by the Red Priest. This work - which can be placed chronologically no later than the middle of the 1710s - represents the most clear-cut example in Vivaldi's music of a Sonate auf Concertenart: more specifically, a kind of solo sonata for violin that the Red Priest could perform in order to show off his prowess on that instrument, as signalled by the presence of many passages featuring double stoppingor the use of the ultra-high register.

Item #: 050606939
UPC: 196288207344
MPN or ISBN: 9788881921225
Size: 10.75"  x  8"
Pages: 56
Stock #: HL50606939