2 cellos, string
orchestra and basso
continuo (3 Violine I - 3
Violine II - 2 Viola - 3
Violoncello/Kontrabass -
1 Basso continuo) -
intermediate
SKU:
HL.49019633
Urtext. Composed
by Antonio Vivaldi.
Edited by Wolfgang
Birtel. This edition:
Saddle stitching. Sheet
music. String Ensemble.
Softcover. 28 pages.
Schott Music #CON267.
Published by Schott Music
(HL.49019633).
ISBN
9790001191289. UPC:
841886019614.
9.25x12.0x0.13
inches.
The genre
of the violoncello
concerto was born in
17th-century Italy.
Thanks to the Venetian
composer Antonio Vivaldi
(1678-1741), there exists
today not only a wealth
of magnificent violin
concertos but also quite
a number of cello
concertos to whose
development he
contributed considerably.
More than two dozens of
his concertos are
dedicated to the
violoncello, including
the probably most famous
double concerto: the
'Concerto for Two
Violoncellos, String
Orchestra and Basso
continuo in G minor (RV
531)' written after 1770.
The sonorous work with
its playful outer
movements and expressive
largo is published in
this critical new edition
on the basis of the
sources.