Scholars who initially took an interest in these works because of their influence on Bach were led to discover a great deal more of Vivaldi's music and make it available to the public. It was indeed Bach's interest in Vivaldi, and particularly in the concertos of L'Estro armonico, that helped spur the Vivaldi revival in the early twentieth century. 8 and 11), and, most famously, he transformed one concerto for four solo violins into a concerto for four harpsichords and strings (no. 3, 9 and 12), two of the double violin concertos as organ pieces (nos. Bach transcribed three of the solo violin concertos as pieces for harpsichord alone (nos. Over time, many arrangements for other instruments were made of this popular music, the most important being the six transcriptions by J. Other editions in London and Paris, as well as pirated editions made Vivaldi's concertos some of the most influential music of the time, alongside that of Corelli.Īs presented by Roger, the twelve concertos in L'Estro armonico are organized in four groups of three concertos, each group having one concerto for four violins, one for two violins, and a solo violin concerto. Roger's publication circulated widely in Europe and was reprinted twenty times over the next several decades.

Indeed, the concertos would certainly have been first played by the girls and by Vivaldi himself at the Ospedale della Pietà. It is dedicated to Ferdinando de' Medici of Florence, one of the distinguished patrons of the girls orphanage in Venice where Vivaldi taught music for a good part of his career. L'Estro armonico, the title of Vivaldi's first published collection of concertos, is perhaps best translated as 'Harmonic Fancy' or 'Whim.' The collection of twelve concertos was published in 1711, not in Italy but by Estienne Roger in Amsterdam.

Vivaldi solo violin