The concerto was published in Amsterdam in 1711 as part of L’Estro Armonico (literally, “furious harmony“). Michael Talbot described Opus 3 as “perhaps the most influential collection of instrumental music to appear during the whole of the eighteenth century,“ and although that honor is usually reserved for Corelli’s Opus 6, Vivaldi’s collection influenced generations of composers, including J.S. Bach.
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