Peter Ryom

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)

Partial bibliography

*cite book
last =Ryom
first =Peter
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Antonio Vivaldi. Table de concordances des œuvres (RV)
publisher =Engstrøm & Sødring
date = 1973
location =Kopenhagen
pages = 92 p. illus. 24 cm
url =
doi =
isbn = 87-87091-00-3
*cite book
last =Ryom
first = Peter
authorlink =
coauthors =
title =Verzeichnis der Werke Antonio Vivaldis (RV). Kleine Ausgabe
publisher =Engstrøm & Sødring/Deutscher Verlag für Musik
date = 1974
location =Kopenhagen/Leipzig
pages =
url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63852775
doi =
id = OCLC: 63852775
*cite book
last = Ryom
first = Peter
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Verzeichnis der Werke Antonio Vivaldis (RV)
publisher = Deutscher Verlag f. Musik, VEB
date = 1974
location = Leipzig
pages =
url =http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3671203
doi =
id = OCLC: 3671203
*cite book
last = Ryom
first = Peter
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Les manuscrits de Vivaldi
publisher =Antonio Vivaldi Archives
date = 1977
location =Kopenhagen
pages =
url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3822958
doi =
isbn = 87-87677-00-8
* cite book
last = Ryom
first = Peter
authorlink =
coauthors =
title = Répertoire des œuvres d'Antonio Vivaldi : les compositions instrumentales
publisher = Engstrøm & Sødring
date = 1986
location = Kopenhagen
pages =
url = http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/14989175
doi =
isbn = 87-87091-19-4

References

*cite book
last = Kennedy
first = Michael
authorlink =Michael Kennedy (music critic)
coauthors = Bourne, Joyce
title = The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music, Fourth Edition
publisher =Oxford University Press
date = 1996, revised 2004
location = Oxford and New York
pages = p. 627
url =
doi =
isbn = 0-19-860884-5