The summer (L'estate)

Is a violin concerto by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These was composed around 1718−1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua. Was published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with 11 additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).