The work includes six sonatas for musette (or vielle à roue) and basso continuo. Chédeville supplied the funding and received the profits, all of which was documented in a notarial act by Marchand in 1749. Six flute concertos (a second version for recorder was printed in Venice)įive violin concertos, one oboe concerto, the second in E minor, RV 277, being known as Il favorito ( The Favorite)įive violin concertos and one without soloĪn alleged 'Opus 13', Il pastor fido ( The Faithful Shepherd) was published in 1737 by Jean-Noël Marchand through a secret agreement with Nicolas Chédeville to publish a collection of Chédeville's compositions under Vivaldi's name. La cetra ( The Lyre), 12 violin concertos, all for solo violin except for No.

Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest between Harmony and Invention), 12 violin concertos, which include the first four concertos known as Le quattro stagioni ( The Four Seasons)Ģ69, 315, 293, 297, 253, 180, 242, 332, 236/454, 362, 210, 178/449 1 and 7 (both in B-flat major) for oboe, and No.

Six sonatas, four violin sonatas and two sonatas for two violins and basso continuoġ2 concertos (two for oboe and 10 for violin), of which three are considered inauthentic: Nos. L'estro armonico ( The Harmonic Inspiration), 12 concertos for various combinations, of which the best known are No.

Vivaldi works