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Vivaldi's Most Beautiful Aria Sovente il sole

The aria is from the serenata Andromeda Liberata on which Vivaldi was the chief 

writer but used other composer including Albinoni, Porta, Porpora and Lotti, which 

leads to this music being sometimes described as a pasticcio; an assemblage of 

music by several composers. A serenata is a hybrid between a cantata and an 

opera performed in evening hours out doors. As far as the authorship of Sovente i

l sole goes one writer describes it as possessing a "melancholy fluency, no one 

else could have written it." So good luck to anybody who wishes to argue with this gentleman. To illustrate the aria I used a Rubens portrait of Helena Fourment, his 

second wife, an angelic drawing to match angelic music.