The discovery dates back to last week: a concerto in A major for solo violin, two violins, viola, and continuo. The Slub, Sächsische Landesbibliothek in Dresden, possesses three series of parts differentiated by instrumentation, now in chamber format with harpsichord and bassoon, now in church format with organ and violone. All anonymous, but one detail aroused the suspicion of Icelandic scholar Jóhannes Ágústsson: the combined recurrence of the markings “Allegro non molto” and “Qui si ferma a piacimento”, peculiar to Vivaldi's usus scribendi.
unfortunately we are full of poorly managed libraries and archives, with musical funds that are rarely studied. And think, not to be xenophobic... but this thing was discovered by an Icelander! A "slap in the face" for German and Italian scholars...
