Casella’s version, long considered authoritative, was replete with changes from the autograph that make it irreconcilable with the instrumental parts and unfaithful to Vivaldi’s manuscript.

The first modern performance of the work, led by Alfredo Casella on September 20, 1939, in Siena was part of a weeklong festival of revival concerts that led to the first modern edition published by Ricordi. These multiple versions of the Gloria pose some confusion and editorial choices that merit inquiry by performers and conductors. M.Vivaldi’s Gloria RV 589 is one of his three settings of this mass section that share similar musical material with each other as well as significant borrowed sections from a double orchestra Gloria by Giovanni Maria Ruggieri.Rosamond Vanderlinde on Mozart: Clarinet Concerto.Dvořák: Cello Concerto Recent Comments.Maxim Vengerov and Daughter perform “Adagio” from Alessandro Marcello’s Oboe Concerto.

Vivaldi’s Women (Schola Pietatis Antonio Vivaldi) on LinkedIn.Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris (Contralto).Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (Contralto and Chorus).This piece, along with its mother composition RV 588, was composed at the same time during Vivaldi’s employment at the Pieta. RV 589 is the best-known setting of the Gloria, simply known as the Vivaldi “Gloria” due to its outstanding popularity. It was probably written at about the same time as the RV 588, possibly in 1715.

RV 589 Gloria is a familiar and popular piece among sacred works by Vivaldi. A third, RV 590, is mentioned only in the Kreuzherren catalogue and presumed lost. Vivaldi wrote at least three settings of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo and two survive: RV 588 and RV 589.

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