Autograph letter signed, dated : Venice, 3 November 1736, to his patron, 1736 Nov. 3.

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Autograph letter signed, dated : Venice, 3 November 1736, to his patron, 1736 Nov. 3.

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Reporting that he has succeeded in assembling a company that is better than any seen at the Ferrara Carnival in many years, that the majority of the virtuosos have appeared several times on the best stages, saying that he had refused 90 zecchini for the third opera of S. Casciano but as the usual 100 were finally agreed upon Ferrara will have two operas, adapted and composed by him, and only 6 zecchini per opera for the copyist, adding that he cannot greet the recipient personally because he is busy with the opera of S. Casciano, etc.

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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Mary Flagler Cary Music Collection (Pierpont Morgan Library)

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Vivaldi, Antonio, 1678-1741

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Op. III, L'estro armonico [Harmony of the soul], consisting of 12 concerti for various ensembles, probably composed ca. 1703. First published 1712 by Estienne Roger, Amsterdam. This concerto (no. 11) became the basis for J.S. Bach's organ concerto after Vivaldi, BWV 596. This arrangement dedicated to Thor Johnson. For a more stylistically authentic edition see callno.: 1622s. For other orchestral transcriptions of this concerto see callnos.: 3897 and 515, respectively.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. ...