When Bach was trying to figure out how to write concertos, he turned to Vivaldi for inspiration. He transcribed at least 10 violin concertos by the Italian master for keyboard to study them as models ...

Here’s some musical inception for you: a multi-piano group interpreting a Bach piece, which is in turn an arrangement of a Vivaldi composition. Let’s back this up. In 1711, Vivaldi published a ...

(6) Concertos, Movements: No. 2 in A minor, BWV593 (after Vivaldi, Op. 3/8) Lorenzo Ghielmi, Organ (L')Estro Armonico (6) Concertos, Movements: No. 5 in D minor, BWV596 (after Vivaldi, Op. 3/11) ...

The 18th-century Italian concerto had a profound influence on Bach. He obtained copies of concertos by Vivaldi, Torelli and the Marcello brothers and learnt their styles by arranging them for solo ...