A history of music for the imperial court “from a professor, choral director, and professional tenor who has studied Viennese cantatas for half a century” (

Detailed survey of Vivaldi's unjustly neglected chamber cantatas, showing them to stand comparison with his more famous works. Vivaldi's chamber cantatas for so

Reproduction of the original.

The contributors in this volume choose aspects of the cantata relevant to their special interests in order to say new things about the works, whether historical