In this middle voice (played with the left hand) I treated the material of Vivaldi’s original rather freely. I therefore decided to condense the middle voices from the original into one voice and give this transcription the form of an organ trio. That is certainly playable on an organ as well, it’s just not very idiomatic for organ music from the Baroque era. The middle voices of Vivaldi’s original (the first and second violins of the orhestra) play continuos double voiced broken chords in sixtheenth notes. Where Vivaldi has the bass voices play four eights notes e flat, the pedal in my transcription plays a quarter note e flat and a rest with the duration of a quarter note. The harmonic layout I kept, of course, the same.

This does not work very well for organ in my opinion and I decided to replace them with a pattern of an quarter note with a rest with the duration of a quarter note. Vivaldi has the bass voices play continuous eight notes. The accompanying notes however, deviate from the original. In this transcription the solo voice plays the literal notes the Violin plays in Vivaldi’s original. I guess I was a bit sloppy in checking IMSLP. [update: there actually at least three transcriptions available. That’s why I decided to repeat my trick from 6 months ago and create my own transcription for organ. However, there is no transcription for organ of this composition available on the largest collection of free scores on the internet IMSLP. As I liked the effect of this piece on organ, I wanted to play it myself as well. Today, I heard someone play a transcription of the second part of Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto l’Inverno on organ. Almost 6 months ago I made a transcription of the middle part of Vivaldi’s third Flute Concerto.

Vivaldi violin concerto