![]() ![]() The origins of Vivaldi’s musical outpourings can be traced to his long stint at La Pietà with the appearance of printed collections of his trio sonatas and violin sonatas between 17. According to The Vintage Guide to Classical Music, ‘…These concertos show off his personality at its most engaging-no great profundity of feeling or contrapuntal mastery, but rather a rhythmic drive that runs indefatigably through the fast movements, fine lyric melodies in the slow movements, great clarity of formal organization throughout, and notable imagination in writing for the strings’.ģrd Movement of Summer from The Four Seasons It would not be an overstatement to say Vivaldi’s set of four violin concertos, The Four Seasons are the world’s most popular and remembered pieces of Baroque music because with their programmatic depiction of the changing seasons and their technical innovations, the four violin concertos broke new ground. Vivaldi is immediately identified, by both the music layperson and the music aficionado, with his path breaking, The Four Seasons. By the time he died in 1741, the Italian composer, had left an inedible mark on the form of the concerto and the style of Baroque instrumental music. In fact, during the thirty odd years here, Vivaldi produced over four hundred works comprising concertos and similar pieces. ![]() Described as the ‘Red Priest’ for his flaming red hair and being baptized immediately after he was born at Venice in 1678, Antonio Vivaldi was the eldest of a large family, who studied violin with his father.Ībandoning priestly duties, he engaged himself in a girl’s orphanage and musical conservatory, La Pieta, as a music director, composer and violin teacher. Even after three centuries, besides remaining a concert favourite, it has been featured in many films such as ‘Indecent Proposal’, in ‘Pretty Woman and ‘Shine’, besides ‘The Simpsons’. Vivaldi wrote his iconic ‘The Four Seasons’ exactly 300 years ago in 1721. ![]()
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