The Credo in E minor by Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

 is the only extant setting the composer wrote of the Nicene Creed

Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed is the creed or profession of faith that is most widely used in Christian liturgy. It is called Nicene because, in its original form, it was adopted in the city of Nicaea by the first ecumenical council, which met there in the year 325.The Nicene Creed has been normative to the...

. Another setting exists (RV 592) but is of dubious authenticity.

RV 591

RV 591 has four movements, all choral. In a style similar to his psalm setting of In exitu Israel (RV 604), the first movement adorns the chorus' simple rhythms of crotchets and minims with the orchestra playing semiquavers and quavers. The second movement is a brief choral episode in the , borrowing thematic material from the composer's Magnificat. In the third movement, based on the portion of the Nicene Creed, Vivaldi establishes pain and grief with constant quavers (followed by a rest of the same duration) in the orchestra and the use of the lamento pattern (chromatic steps descending from the tonic to the dominant). The fourth movement is similar to the first, based on the similar semiquaver-quaver motif, yet ends with a fugue. RV 591 is connected to Gloria RV 588 by the rhythmic similarity in the first and fourth movements and its date of composition.

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RV 592

RV 592 is a disputed composition, attributed to Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music. Immensely popular in his time, Hasse was best known for his prolific operatic output, though he also composed a considerable quantity of sacred music...

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