Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione
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The work’s title refers to the dialectic relationship between the 18th century “harmony”, i.e. the traditional compositional technique and “invention”, the innate creative imagination that directs this technique. At first glance, the title seems to allegorically encapsulate the struggle between strict compositional technique and spontaneous creativity.
However, if the term “il cimento” is taken to mean “the assay”, “the quality test”, then Vivaldi did not mean for the title to express “the battle between Harmony and Invention for the leading role in music”, but rather the “quality test on both harmony and invention”. It is, thus, probable that Vivaldi meant the title to act as an advertisement of his compositional adequacy in both fields.
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List of concertos
- Concerto No. 1 in E major, “La primavera” (Spring), RV 269
- Concerto No. 2 in G minor, “L’estate” (Summer), RV 315
- Concerto No. 3 in F major, “L’autunno” (Autumn), RV 293
- Concerto No. 4 in F minor, “L’inverno” (Winter), RV 297
- Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, “La tempesta di mare” (The Storm at Sea or The Sea Storm), RV 253
- Concerto No. 6 in C major, “Il piacere” (Pleasure), RV 180
- Concerto No. 7 in D minor, “Per Pisendel” (For Pisendel), RV 242
- Concerto No. 8 in G minor, RV 332
- Concerto No. 9 in D minor, RV 236 (scored for violin) / RV 454 (scored for oboe)
- Concerto No. 10 in B-flat major, “La caccia” (The Hunt), RV 362
- Concerto No. 11 in D major, RV 210
- Concerto No. 12 in C major, RV 178 (scored for violin) / RV 449 (scored for oboe)