Peter Ryom

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Peter Ryom (born May 31, 1937 in Copenhagen) is a Danish musicologist. He is internationally known as the author of the Ryom Verzeichnis, the now-standard catalog of the works of Antonio Vivaldi. The number of a composition in the Ryom Verzeichnis (Ryom catalog) is always prefaced by the abbreviation RV. (The V in RV stands for Verzeichnis, not Vivaldi.)

For example, Vivaldi's celebrated Four Seasons is made up of four violin concertos and famous guitar concerto are numbered and named as follows:

• Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269 - "La primavera" (Spring)
• Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 8, RV 315 - "L'estate" (Summer)
• Concerto No. 3 in F major, Op. 8, RV 293 - "L'autunno" (Autumn)
• Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 8, RV 297 - "L'inverno" (Winter)

• Guitar Concerto in D major, RV 93 - "Allegro" (first movement)
• Guitar Concerto in D major, RV 93 - "Largo" (second movement)
• Guitar Concerto in D major, RV 93 - "Allegro" (third movement)

[edit] Partial bibliography

• Ryom, Peter (1973). Antonio Vivaldi. Table de concordances des œuvres (RV). Kopenhagen: Engstrøm & Sødring, 92 p. illus. 24 cm. ISBN 87-87091-00-3. 
• Ryom, Peter (1974). Verzeichnis der Werke Antonio Vivaldis (RV). Kleine Ausgabe. Kopenhagen/Leipzig: Engstrøm & Sødring/Deutscher Verlag für Musik. OCLC: 63852775. 
• Ryom, Peter (1974). Verzeichnis der Werke Antonio Vivaldis (RV). Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag f. Musik, VEB. OCLC: 3671203. 
• Ryom, Peter (1977). Les manuscrits de Vivaldi. Kopenhagen: Antonio Vivaldi Archives. ISBN 87-87677-00-8. 
• Ryom, Peter (1986). Répertoire des œuvres d'Antonio Vivaldi : les compositions instrumentales. Kopenhagen: Engstrøm & Sødring. ISBN 87-87091-19-4. 

[edit] References

• Kennedy, Michael; Bourne, Joyce (1996, revised 2004). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, p. 627. ISBN 0-19-860884-5.