French publisher Le Clerc featured twenty-six cello composers in his music catalogs in that decade.īy most accounts, Vivaldi published twenty-eight to twenty-nine cello concertos and ten cello sonatas, one of which was permanently lost. After his death, by the 1740s, however, solo performances began to rise. It seems there were not enough soloists or patrons to support the effort. After the violin, one of the largest collections of pieces he wrote was for the cello.Įven though Baroque composers published hundreds of cello sonatas from the late seventeenth to mid eighteenth centuries, Vivaldi did not find it economical to publish cello music in the 1710s and 1720s. Vivaldi and his music, however, have endured, and among his vast array of compositions, his concerti for solo instruments number past 500. Composers and critics alike believed that Vivaldi’s sheer quantity of production outweighed his quality. Yet his work was often discredited in his lifetime because he was prolific.

Performed within the orchestral world, period films, and popular culture today, his works and melodies are recognizable, even to a movie crowd. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi’s music is timeless.

Vivaldi double cello concerto