Roy Ellefsen ([log in to unmask]) wrote: >I heard, and therefore don't know the source or the exact wording, that >Stravinsky once commented that Vivaldi wrote the same concerto a thousand >times. If the he (Stravinsky) didn't say it, and nobody knows of a more >certain source, then I'd like credit for it. Vivaldi is greatly overrated - a dull fellow who could compose the same form over and so many times over. Stravinsky from Conversations with Robert Craft (1958). Sounds better as usually misquoted. More apropos: Vivaldi is an old man, who has a prodigious fury for composition. I heard him undertake to compose a concerto, with all the parts, with greater dispatch than a copyist can copy it. Charles de Brosses, 1739. Deryk Barker [log in to unmask]