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| Composer : | Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741) | ||
| Instrumentation : | Viola and Strings | ||
| Style : | Baroque | ||
| Arranger : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||
| Publisher : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL | ||
| Copyright : | Public Domain | ||
| Added by magataganm, 06 Dec 2014 Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678. Though ordained a priest in 1703, according to his own account, within a year of being ordained Vivaldi no longer wished to celebrate mass because of physical complaints ("tightness of the chest") which pointed to angina pectoris, asthmatic bronchitis, or a nervous disorder. It is also possible that Vivaldi was simulating illness - there is a story that he sometimes left the altar in order to quickly jot down a musical idea in the sacristy.... In any event he had become a priest against his own will, perhaps because in his day training for the priesthood was often the only possible way for a poor family to obtain free schooling. Vivaldi's Concerto per Anna Maria alla Pietà exists in two distinct versions. One edition is based exclusively on a partly autograph manuscript preserved in Paris, (RV 223) and giving the work in D major. The other version of the work (RV 762 arranged here), in E major is the original work. This arrangement is a variation for Viola of the Allegro movement 3 of RV 762, I is in its original key and in an edition based on an authoritative source. It is one of numerous concertos by Vivaldi known to have been played by Anna Maria, the most celebrated of the many remarkable performers produced by the Ospedale della Pietà, the Venetian charitable institution with which the composer was associated for much of his career. And yet it is, besides RV 286 in F major, the only violin concerto of his for which a source inscribed with the name of the virtuosa has survived complete. Although originally written for violin, strings and basso continuo, I created this arrangement of the Allegro Movement 3 for Solo Viola and Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). | |||
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