About “Il pastor fido”

Baroque fans of my generation were convinced that this was a work by Vivaldi. The Archiv version, the Frans Brüggen’s record, and the Conrad Steinmann’s record all said it was by Vivaldi. The first time it was stated that this was not the case was in the liner notes of a Barthold Kuijken CD recorded in 1991. There, for the first time, it was written that the piece was “composed by Nicolas Chedeville. However, the title of the Kuijken CD itself was “Italian Flute Sonatas”, which caused some confusion. However, the liner notes clearly state that this piece is a forgery by Nicolas Chedeville. The whole collection is very Vivaldi-like, but only the G minor sonata (No. 6) is different from the others in that it is a so-called “well-written” work. It turns out that only the fourth movement of sonata G minor is an arrangement from Vivaldi’s own existing violin concerto (by the way, Bach also arranged this movement for clavier). The basso continuo of the first movement is very well written for Vivaldi, and the following fugue alla breve is worthy of special mention. If it is a creation of Chedeville, he is quite talented. The third movement, Siciliano is a melody which exactly Vivaldi would write, and it is followed by a movement that is really Vivaldi’s composition. It is a scenario that is too neat to make the purchaser think that the entire collection is Vivaldi’s. As for the fugue, Vivaldi was capable of writing a fine one if he wanted to, as can be seen in his Op. 3, No. 11, D minor concerto, and Chedeville must have taken this into consideration. In any case, it can be seen that the Vivaldi boom in France was considerable at that time. #baroque #vivaldi #chedeville #片山俊幸