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VIVALDI
- 4 March 1678 - 28 July 1741
- Born in
Venice
- His parents were Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and
Camilla Calicchio
- Vivaldi's father was a professional violinist who taught
Antonio how to play. They then toured Venice together
performing the violin
- It is also thought that Vivaldi studies with
Giovanni Legrenzi as a boy, but there is no
evidence to support this speculation.
- His five siblings were: Margatira Gabriela, Cecilia
Maria, Bonaventura Tomaso, Zanetta Anna and
Francesco Gaetano
- Vivaldi's health was a problem, he had a
form of asthma. This did not really affect his
musical endeavours but he did have to stop
playing wind instruments.
- He began training to become a
priest in 1693 (age 15) and was
ordained in 1703 (age 25)
- In 1704 he was excused from
celebrating Mass because of
his ill health
- He was nicknamed il Prete Rosse (The Red
Priest) because of the colour of his hair
- In autumn of 1703, he was appointed as a violin teacher at
the Ospitale della Pieta in Venice; a few laters later he was
made conductor there
- Vivaldi composed both vocal and instrumental
music, as well as sacred and secular music.
- He composed over seven hundred pieces (sonatas,
operas, concertos - 221 solo violin concerto's)
- Vivaldi is considered to be one of the greatest
eighteenth century musicians with superb ability
- He favoured the three movement concerto (fast - slow - fast)
- The two other movements are in the same key, the middle movement
is in the same or closely related key
- Concerto grosso: a small
group of solo players, set
against a full orchestra
- He wrote concertos for many solo
instruments (flute, the clarinet, the trumpet
or the mandolin)
- Some of his music was thematic, giving
musical descriptions of events or natural
scenes
- The Seasons
- His music was extremely popular during and after his
lifetime. His pieces were copied and admired by J.S.Bach.
- Vivaldi was one of the great names of the
European music scene in the eighteenth century