Hughes, Gervase (1961). "Famous Composers". Archived from the original on 1 July 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023. in 1716 maestro de' concerti with the responsibility of composing two new concertos each month.
Travelling in Italy, he noted in his diary, on the occasion of an opera performance in the Teatro Sant' Angelo in the spring of 1715:
... towards the end, Vivaldi played an accompagnement solo, ... which quite shocked me, ... because his fingers came only within a straw’s breadth of the bridge, so that there was no space for the bow, and this on all 4 strings with fugues and a velocity which is unbelievable, he astonished everyone with it – https://wiener-urtext.com/en/antonio-vivaldi.
