Juozas Rimas <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >What can you say about Vivaldi's music? Like many, I know the Four Seasons >and I like them. However, after finding out Vivaldi has written the total >of almost 50 concerti, 39 operas, 23 symphonies etc, I started to worry >about the relation of quantity and quality. Vivaldi is a good composer to me in that sence that he mastered that ubiquitous melodic invention. He almost always - na, I haven't heard *all* his works, but anyway - has a nice melody basing his movements on, and there are after all composers who complain they have difficulties to invent a good melody. Maybe he wrote the same concerto 600 times... I would rahter say he invented a good melody 600 times, and thats a great work! All who has tried composing knows that a good melody doesn't invent itself, although there might be as many potential melodies as there are stars in the universe, and to be able to always invent a good melody is a certain talent IMO, a talent, that deservs appreciation. >Could you please assure me the seasons are his best work and I don't have >to bother digging deeper? I could give a few examples on what I find are true gems in the Vivaldi collection. Pardon me for don't including any opera, but I don't know much about them. * Sinfonia in C * Concerto for 2 Flutes, Strings and Cembalo * Concerto for 2 Trumpets and Orchestra * "Il Gardellino" * "Del Ritico" * Concerto for 2 Oboes, Basson, 2 Trumpets, Strings and Organ * Glorias One theme in the sinfonia in C has is very close to that G.F. Haendel uses in Fireworks Music; La Rejouissance. Whom borrowed from whom? (I have no date on the Vivaldi...) Mats Norrman [log in to unmask]