Bob Draper wrote:

>Roberto Strappafelci wrote:
>
>>Vivaldi wrote some 480 concertos, 22 symphonies, 85 sonatas, 50-94 operas
>>and 60 sacred works.  The old saying that "he didn't wrote many works, only
>>many times the same work" is partly true, due to the huge amount of music
>>he produced,
>
>This statement is correct but one could say the same thing about almost
>any composer with a large output.  So why do people single out Vivaldi
>for critism? There is a big similarity between many of Bach's works for
>instance.

The reason is simple.  Vivaldi's music was discovered by German
musicologists in the early 1900.  Of course, they were only trying to
figure out who the hell Vivaldi was, and why he had influenced their Bach
so much.  American musicologists at the time were busy doing something
else, while Italians were so involved in the local soccer championship that
they didn't even realize.  It comes without saying that the vast majority
of Vivaldi's concertos were brought into light at a time when researchers
were, well, longing to come back to Bach.  "These works are all the same"
was the spreading voice.  Fortunately, some decades later, the direction
of the wind changed.

Roberto Strappafelci