Vivaldi

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Federico Maria Sardelli, a professional baroque flautist and recorder-player, offers insights into the diverse sizes and tunings of the recorder and transverse flute families in relation to Antonio Vivaldi's compositions. Drawing extensively from primary documents, he analyzes the surprisingly progressive instrumental techniques in Vivaldi's music. The text discusses the debated chronology of Vivaldi's works, utilizing both internal and external evidence. Each piece featuring the flute or recorder is thoroughly evaluated from historical, biographical, technical, and aesthetic perspectives. This work appeals not only to Vivaldi scholars and enthusiasts but also to players of these instruments, organology students, and those interested in late baroque music. Vivaldi's oeuvre continues to reveal surprises, with new pieces being discovered and old ones reinterpreted. The new English edition incorporates recent findings and developments since the original Italian publication, providing a richer understanding of the composer and his era. Readers will gain valuable insights from the detailed examination of his music for these wind instruments, which also hold broader relevance for his overall work. Generous music examples and illustrations enhance the book's arguments, bringing Sardelli's analysis to life.