Roberto Strappafelci >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. >...but you cannot reduce his work to four concertos. It wouldn't be the >correct approach a composer who influenced his contemporaries throughout >Europe. Agreed! There is a lot more to Vivaldi than that. I love the man's music mainly for it's 'joi de vivre'. Bob Draper [log in to unmask]