giving a musical impression of a storm was a popular theme in baroque music. for instance operas like marin marais' "alcyone" contained famous storm scenes. telemann wrote a secular cantata ("the storm"), twv 20:42, after an italian libretto by metastasio. vivaldi wrote several "tempesta di mare" concertos. two variants of rv 433, rv 98 and , are in the chamber concerto and concerto grosso format respectively. rv 98 is scored for flute, oboe, violin, bassoon, and continuo, from which vivaldi created the rv 570 concerto grosso by adding orchestral violins to reinforce the solo oboe and violin, and a viola part doubling the bass at the upper octave. an unrelated "tempesta di mare" concerto, a violin concerto in e major, , is included as no. 5 in vivaldi's op. 8 "il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione". "the four seasons", the first four concertos of that collection, also include a few musical depictions of stormy weather.