Vivaldi uses an imitative, sonata-da-chiesa (church sonata) style for the third movement of RV 46. Gavotta: 47, IV 43, IV 45, II 44, IV, 39, IVĪs with the Manchester Sonatas, each cello sonata could open with a “Preludio” movement. While Vivaldi does not use dance titles in most of the cello sonatas, we can surmise which dances he had in mind, comparing the style in this set to his Manchester Sonatas and other sonatas for violin.Īllemanda: 41, II 43, II 40, II 46, II 44, II 39, II 42, II However, when the Ricordi edition published the complete edition of Vivaldi’s works, Gian Francesco Malipiero and Fritz Zobeley were much lighter on the realization.Īll nine of Vivaldi’s surviving cello sonatas are in the sonata da camera (chamber sonata) genre, meaning that the sonatas consist of dance movements, although, for the most part, unmarked. This kind of keyboard realization continued into the 1970s with the Ariston edition of the three sonatas (RV 44, 39, 42). The famous orchestrators include Vincent D’Indy (complete), Luigi Dallapiccola (complete), Gaspar Cassadó (RV 40), Paul Bazelaire (RV 40), and others.Ī typical, twentieth-century keyboard realization had the style of Romantic-era piano writing, which was thick and rich almost the entire time. Ironically, cellists who played the orchestrated sonatas did not play the original concertos. Several twentieth-century composers orchestrated these sonatas to be performed as concertos. In the twentieth century, six of Vivaldi’s cello sonatas gained popularity as pedagogical works. Vivaldi was quite generous with cellists, gifting them no fewer than twenty-five solo concertos, ten solo sonatas, a concerto for two cellos, three with violin, and many other concertos grosso where the cello plays a concertante role. One would be hard-pressed to name many other composers who accomplished this. In this aspect, he passed on the torch to Paul Hindemith. Vivaldi composed for practically every instrument available during his lifetime. Introducing the new edition of Vivaldi's 9 Cello Sonatas, published by Artistic Score Engraving.Īntonio Vivaldi (1678 – 1741) was a prolific composer, someone many composers, including J.S.
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