There's a few "faithful shepherds" out there so make sure you look up the right one. You are talking about "Opus 13 Il pastor fido (The Faithful Shepherd), six sonatas for musette, viela, recorder, flute, oboe or violin, and basso continuo", right? Most places have a "?" over whether he wrote it or not and it has been attributed to Mr. Nicolas Chédeville of Paris who published it and claimed it was by Vivaldi.(and added bits from other works to ,make it sound right. See http://members.tripod.com/~donlevi/vivaldi.html e only published up to number 12 and then just signed handwrittenmanuscripts (cheaper) so he never actually "published Opus 13. Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Ch%C3%A9deville for details on NC and how he did it. I think there may still be some in both camps though. Colin Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Szostak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:37 PM Subject: *** SPAM *** [HG] Vivaldi and the hurdy-gurdy
> Hi all- > > Somebody recently gave me a book of sheet music, and it put the > subject into my mind - I'm hoping that you baroque specialists can > enlighten me. This may have been discussed at some point in the > past; apologies if I'm being repetitious! > > I'm interested in the true origin of the music "Il Pastor Fido," > which most of us have at least heard on one recording or another (I > have it on Saydisc's "The Music of the Hurdy-Gurdy ... Nigel Eaton & > Friends"), attributed to Vivaldi. > > The sheet music I have credits Vivaldi for the 6 sonatas, the first > of which is on Nigel's recording. My music also instructs "For Flute > and Piano", but never mind. It is copyrighted 1965 by the > International Music Company. > > Robert Green, in the "Repertory" chapter of his book "The Hurdy-Gurdy > in Eighteenth Century France", says of this music: "Arguably the best > known works in this literature because of their attribution to a > well-known name. The individual movements of these sonatas are in > fact arrangements of works by Vivaldi and others or at least based on > themes by them." > > What's the story here? Did Vivaldi compose the 5 movements in this > Sonata no.1? Or is the music based on themes by him? Or is it the > work of some un-named "other"? And who made the arrangements that we > now accept? > > ~ Matt > > >
