After more than 40 years of Vivaldi research, including this 1st issue of the works’ catalogue, Peter Ryom placed the supervision and continuation of the renowned “RV” in the hands of the recognized Vivaldi scholar Federico Maria Sardelli.

Vivaldi research has been subject to amazingly numerous changes in recent years. For example, the number of works attributed to Vivaldi has increased by 17(!). In return, a number of works have had to be identified as spurious and moved to the appendix. Ch...