Il gran mogol

Not to be confused with the Grosso mogul violin concerto also by Vivaldi, nor with the Il gran Mogol opera libretto by Lalli, nor with Le grand mogol by Audran.

Vivaldi

Il gran mogol (The Grand Moghul), RV 431a, is a flute concerto by Antonio Vivaldi, written in the late 1720s or early 1730s. It was the Indian part of a set of four 'national' concertos, La Francia (France), La Spagna (Spain) and L'Inghilterra (England) – the other three are all lost.

It appeared in a Dutch bookseller's sale catalogue of 1759 and was then lost until 2010, when it was rediscovered by Andrew Woolley in the papers of Lord Robert Kerr (?-1746), the son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, now in the National Archives of Scotland. Kerr was a flautist himself and is thought to have collected it on a grand tour of Italy. Number RV 431a has been assigned to the concerto in Ryom Verzeichnis.

See also

• List of compositions by Antonio Vivaldi

External links

• Carrell, Severin (7 October 2010). "Vivaldi flute concerto discovered". The Guardian.
• Hall, George (8 October 2010). "Vivaldi: Il Gran Mogol - review". The Guardian.