Il gran mogol
The Il gran mogul (The Grand Moghul) concerto is a concerto for flute (RV 431a) by Vivaldi, written in the late 1720s or early 1730s. It was the Indian part of a set of four 'national' concertoes, La Francia (France), La Spagna (Spain) and L'Inghilterro (England) - the other three are all lost.
It appeared in a Dutch bookseller's sale catalogue of 1759 and was then lost until 2010, when it was rediscovered by Andrew Woolley in the papers of Lord Robert Kerr (?-1746), the son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, now in the National Archives of Scotland. Kerr was a flautist himself and is thought to have collected it on a grand tour of Italy. Number RV 431a has been assigned to the concerto in Ryom Verzeichnis.
Related concerto
In the 1710s Vivaldi also wrote a violin concerto in D major (RV 208) Il Grosso Mogul, referring to Moghul emperor Akbar.[1]
References
- ^ Wyld, Joanna (2005). Il Giardino Armonico discography: Viktoria Mullova – Vivaldi.
External links
- Carrell, Severin (7 October 2010). "Vivaldi flute concerto discovered". The Guardian.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link) - Hall, George (8 October 2010). "Vivaldi: Il Gran Mogol - review". The Guardian.
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