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  • New Vivaldi work heard for first time in 250 years [really cool!!]

    08/11/2005 2:30:35 PM PDT · by sitetest · 132 replies · 1,676+ views
    Yahoo! News / Reuters ^ | Tuesday, August 9, 2005 | Paul Tait
    SYDNEY (Reuters) - A small part of a newly identified choral work by baroque Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi was played for the first time in about 250 years on Tuesday after being uncovered by an Australian academic. Janice Stockigt of the University of Melbourne said the 11-movement "Dixit Dominus" for choir and soloists, which she uncovered in Dresden this year, would be played in full in the German city next year. Stockigt said the work had previously been attributed to Baldassarre Galuppi, a Venetian contemporary of Vivaldi, since it first appeared in Galuppi's name in Dresden's Catholic Court Church in...