Estro Armonico (being able to be about translated the Harmonic Invention French ) is the title of a series of twelve Concerto S for one, two or four Violon S and Orchestre of Antonio Vivaldi, Opus 3 dedicated to Ferdinand III of Médicis, large-duke heir to Toscane.

It is about the work concerting most famous of Vivaldi after the Four Seasons , but it was especially the work which made known it in Europe, after he had published two continuations of Sonate S (COp 1 and COp 2). Vivaldi was however far from being without experiment, having practiced the composition of concertos since nearly ten years for its concerts of Ospedale della Pietà of Venice. Its fame had started besides to extend in Europe and this time, whereas its two continuations had been published in Italy, it sent its manuscripts to the editor Estienne Roger with Amsterdam, which published them there in 1711. The cycle was a great success and was reprinted shortly after with Paris and London. It seems that Vivaldi carefully assembled the concertos having to constitute its cycle, and selected among its most accomplished compositions.

The concertos are not ordered according to the chronological order of composition but are laid out in four groups of three (the first for four violins, then two and finally only one), alternating the mode S minors and major.

Bach, among its ten transcriptions of the concertos of Vivaldi, drew five from them from Estro Armonico : two for Harpsichord only (n°9, n°12), two for Organ (n°8, n°11) and for four harpsichords (n°10); being pressed directly on the Handwritten S and not on the published versions.

Movements

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo E spiccato
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 2 in minor D for two violins, violoncello and cords, RV 578:

• 1. Adagio E spiccato
• 2. Larghetto
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, COp 3, Concerto n° 3 in G major for violin and cords, RV 310:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 4 as a semi minor for four violins and cords, RV 550:

• 1. Andante
• 2. Allegro assai
• 3. Adagio
• 4. Allegro

Estro Armonico, COp 3, Concerto n° 5 in the minor for two violins and cords, RV 519:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 6 in the minor for violin and cords, RV 356:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo
• 3. Presto

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 7 in major F for four violins, violoncello and cords, RV 567:

• 1. Andante
• 2. Adagio
• 3. Allegro - Adagio
• 4. Allegro

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 8 in the minor for two violins and cords, RV 522:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Larghetto E spiritoso
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, COp 3, Concerto n° 9 in major D for violin and cords, RV 230:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Larghetto
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, Op.3, Concerto n° 10 in so minor for four violins, violoncello and cords, RV 580:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo - Larghetto
• 3. Allegro

Estro Armonico, COp 3, Concerto n° 11 in minor D for two violins, violoncello and cords, RV 565:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Adagio E spiccato
• 3. Allegro
• 4. Largo E spiccato
• 5. Allegro

Estro Armonico, COp 3, Concerto n° 12 into semi major for violin and cords, RV 265:

• 1. Allegro
• 2. Largo E spiccato
• 3. Allegro

External bond

• Presentation by Christopher Hogwood