Maestro VIVALDI!!

[Kleinigkeiten]

Hallo, my fellow music-lovers!

I was wondering if any of you knew where I could get all (or almost all) of the great 'Red Priest' concertos, preferably in PDF format. I know it's quite a request but I've wanted to get my hands on those for a long, long time.. I've already got the full Op.8 and Op.3 and the eight concerto from the Op.4 but as you can see I'm still missing 'just a few ones' ^^

Thank you so much in advance!

"I have swept only three times in my life: the first time when my earliest opera failed, the second time when, with a boating party, a truffed turkey fell into the water, and the third time when I first heard Paganini play."
-G.Rossini

[Melodia]

This has been asked before. Noone's given an answer, but my own theory is that they aren't PD as most of the pieces without opus were lost and weren't discovered -- and thus published -- until the 1930s (I think it was).
A real shame too.

[steltz]

As far as I can gather, quite a few are recent publications that are not PD because of the editors involved, e.g. Malipiero who died in 1973. If he personally realized a bass line, this is covered by whatever term of copyright protection there is in Italy.

For these concerti, a lot of digging would be involved to find, copy and release a scan of the original manuscript, if the library or collection involved would even allow you to do so, and such a manuscript would inevitably have an unrealized bass line, which isn't a problem if you can play from that.

(On the other hand, what a lovely research project . . . with time spent in Italy . . . . . )

By the way, Kleinigkeiten, is your quote at the bottom of your posts deliberately misspelled? Rossini "swept"? and a "truffed" turkey?

[Philidor]

(On the other hand, what a lovely research project . . . with time spent in Italy . . . . . )

Oooooh, I'd love to publish some Vivaldi....

[Kleinigkeiten]

Oh, dear, that is truly bad news...so basically, it's going to be practically impossible to get my hands on them all. Damn.
Well, thanks for the help, anyways.

Oh, and steltz: my mistake, "WEPT" and "TRUFFLED". ^^

[aldona]

SLUB Dresden has quite a number of Vivaldi manuscripts, if anybody has the time and inclination to import them here.

http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/collectio ... nt/?type=0

I think a few of them have been uploaded, but there are still many more.

Aldona