6 Concerti op. VI a cinque strumenti

The six Concerts op. VI for violin, strings and continuo by Antonio Vivaldi were published in Amsterdam by Roger in 1719. Although the contribution of Vivaldi was most likely modest – even to assume that the publishing occurred without hisauthorization - these six compositions mark a decisive step towards the definition of the classic Vivaldi Concerto, consisting of three movements and with the participation of a single Soloist. This critical edition – mainly based on the firstprinted edition and its following reprints – takes in consideration also all the printed sources related to each single concert of op. VI found into anthologies and the manuscript ones kept at the Wiesentheid and Dresda libraries. The informationcollected through the comparative study of the manuscript tradition and the printed one made possible not only to reconstruct the links among the sources and clarify some problematic choices but also to formulate hypotheses about the genesis and theintrinsic nature of the whole collection.