The Great Mogul, RV 431a, is a concert for flute by Antonio Vivaldi, written in the 1720s or early 1730s. It was the Indian part of a set of four national concerts ', France (France), La Spagna (Spain) and L'Inghilterra (England) - the other three have been lost. It appeared in the sales catalog of a Dutch bookseller of 1759 and was considered lost until 2010, when it was rediscovered by Andrew Woolley in the papers of Mr. Robert Kerr (? -1746), the son of William Kerr, 3rd Marquess of Lothian, now in the National Archives of Scotland. Kerr himself was a flutist and it is believed that he got them on a grand tour he made in Italy. It has been assigned the RV 431a in the Ryom Catalog.

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