The Ryom-Verzeichnis or Répertoire des oeuvres d'Antonio Vivaldi (both often abbreviated RV) is a (now standard) catalog of the music of Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

 created by Peter Ryom

Peter Ryom

Peter Ryom is a Danish musicologist. He is internationally known as the author of the Ryom-Verzeichnis, the now-standard catalog of the works of Antonio Vivaldi. The number of a composition in the Ryom Verzeichnis is always prefaced by the abbreviation RV. -References:...

. The catalog is often used to identify Vivaldi's works by a simple number.

For example, Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons made up of four violin concerto

Concerto

A concerto is a musical work usually composed in three parts or movements, in which one solo instrument is accompanied by an orchestra.The etymology is uncertain, but the word seems to have originated from the conjunction of the two Latin words...

s, and his famous guitar concerto, are numbered and named as follows:

• Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 – "La primavera" (Spring)
• Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 – "L'estate" (Summer)
• Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293 – "L'autunno" (Autumn)
• Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297 – "L'inverno" (Winter)
• Guitar Concerto in D major, RV 93

Earlier catalogues of Vivaldi's work exist. There were among others the catalogues of Rinaldi (published Rome

Rome

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, 1944) and Pincherle (Paris

Paris

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, 1948). When the complete index of Antonio Fanna was finished (Milan

Milan

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, 1968), Ryom had already begun to work on his catalogue; therefore, a supplement appeared with Fanna's catalogue, containing previously unknown items that Ryom had discovered in the meantime. Fanna's catalogue, however, only includes instrumental works.

For the sake of concordance, the Ryom Verzeichnis provides reference to the numbers of Fanna (F.), Pincherle (P.) and Ricordi.

See also

• List of compositions by Antonio Vivaldi
• List of operas by Vivaldi
• Opus number
  Opus number
  An Opus number , pl. opera and opuses, abbreviated, sing. Op. and pl. Opp. refers to a number generally assigned by composers to an individual composition or set of compositions on publication, to help identify their works...
  
  

External links

• Repertoire des oeuvres d'Antonio Vivaldi, vol. 1: Les Compositions instrumentales by Peter Ryom, review by Eleanor Selfridge-Field in Notes, 2nd Ser., Vol. 45, No. 1 (Sep., 1988), pp. 69-72
• Antonio Vivaldi: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis seiner Werke (RV), by Peter Ryom (2007), review by Eleanor Selfridge-Field (2008) in "Notes", 2nd ser., Vol. 65, No. 2.
• List of Vivaldi's non-choral works put together by L. D. Lampson.
• Electronic Ryom-Verzeichnis (French interface but nonetheless easy to use)
• project Anima Veneziana (Ryom, Peter. Vivaldi Werkverzeichnis. 1. Auflage. 2007. Breitkopf & Härtel. 664 S., format: JPG)