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    Portrait of Antonio Vivaldi, by François Morellon de la Cave

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a Baroque music composer and Venetianpriest, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist, born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of four violinconcerti, is his best-known work and a highly popular Baroque piece.

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    Childhood

    The church where Vivaldi was baptized: Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, Sestiere di Castello, Venice.

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice, the capital of the Republic of Venice. He was baptized immediately after his birth at his home by the midwife. It is not known how the life of the infant was in danger, but the immediate baptism was most likely due to his poor health or to an earthquake that shook the city that day. Vivaldi's official church baptism (at least, the rites that remained other than the actual baptism itself) did not take place until two months later. His father, Giovanni Battista, a barber before becoming a professional violinist, taught him to play violin and then toured Venice playing the violin with his young son. Giovanni Battista was one of the founders of the Sovvegno dei musicisti di Santa Cecilia, a sort of trade union for musicians and composers. The president of the association was Giovanni Legrenzi, the maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Basilica and noted early Baroque composer. It is possible that the young Antonio's first lessons in composition were imparted by him. The Luxembourg scholar Walter Kolneder sees in the early liturgical work Laetatus sum (RV Anh 31, written in 1691 at the age of 13) the influence of Legrenzi's style. His father may have been a composer himself: in 1688, an opera titled La Fedeltà sfortunat

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  • 1. Vivaldi Biography Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was a Venetian composer in the baroque era. Vivaldi was born on 4th March 1678 in the Republic of Venice, today part of Italy; his father was Giovanni Battista, a baker before becoming a professional violinist, who taught his son to play violin. They subsequently toured Venice playing violin together. Vivaldi suffered from what was called “chest tightening” which might have been asthma; this did not, however, prevent him from learning to play the violin, composing and taking part in the prescribed musical activities. At the age of fifteen he began studying priesthood,for this was a vow made by his mother. In 1703, at the age of twenty-five, he was ordained, and was soon nicknamed “Il Prete Rosso” (The Red Priest), probably because of his red hair. Not long afterwards, in 1704, he was given a dispensation from celebrating the Mass because of his ill health. In late 1706 he withdrew from the priesthood and became maestro di violino at an orphanage for girls called the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.But rumor has it that once he left during Mass, feeling the urge to compose and was given the permission to be released by the cardinal of the Church upon his request to teach music. Shortly after his appointment, the orphans began to gain appreciation and esteem abroad, too; Vivaldi wrote for them many concertos and cantatas,sacred music and any other works the orphanage might need. In 1705, the first collection of his works was published, followed by many others. At the orphanage he covered several different duties, only interrupting them for his many travels. In 1709, he lost his position for economic reasons but in 1711 he was offered the job again, and in 1713 became responsible for the musical activity of the institute. Vivaldi was promoted to maestro de’ concerti in 1716. It was during these years that Vivaldi wrote much of his music, including many operas and concertos. In 1718, Vivaldi be
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    A portrait of Antonio Vivaldi in 1725

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest") was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuosoviolinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe. Vivaldi is known mainly for composing instrumental concertos, especially for the violin, as well as sacred choral works and over 40 operas. His best known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons.

    Many of his compositions were written for the female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage for poor and illegitimate children where Vivaldi worked between 1703 and 1740. Vivaldi also had some success with stagings of his operas in Venice, Mantua and Vienna. After meeting the Emperor Charles VI, Vivaldi moved to Vienna hoping for preferment. The Emperor died soon after Vivaldi's arrival, and the composer died a pauper, without a steady source of income.

    Though Vivaldi's music was well received during his lifetime, it later declined in popularity until its vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century. Today, Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded Baroque composers.

    Childhood

    The church where Vivaldi was baptised: San Giovanni Battista in Bragora, Sestiere di Castello, Venice.

    Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice, the capital of the Republic of Venice in 1678. He was baptized immediately after his birth at his home by the midwife, which led to the belief that his life was somehow in danger. Though not known for certain, the immediate baptism was most likely due either to his poor health or to an earthquake that shook the city that day. In the trauma of the earthquake, Vivaldi's mother may have dedicated him to the priesthood. Vivaldi's official church baptism (the rites that remained other than the

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    • Today in History: Vivaldi’s Birth

    Antonio Vivaldi was born on 4 March, 1678, precisely 339 years ago today.  He has always been one of my favourite composers.  Like just about any Baroque music fancier alive, I never tire of The Four Seasons.

    The great man was born in Venice, the day after an earthquake.  He was sickly as a child.  It’s possible that he was asthmatic.  Given both a musical and a religious education, he became a violin virtuoso and an ordained priest.  By age 24, he was engaged to teach and compose for the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, an institution for foundlings and other impoverished children.  The orchestra there was made up entirely of girls.  It was for them that he wrote most of his early compositions, including the TheFour Seasons (1725).

    Vivaldi. Credit: Wikipedia. 

    In later life, he began to compose operas, as well as act as an impresario. According to Wikipedia, there is a reference in one his letters to 94 operas.  It’s not clear how many of those he might have composed himself, as opposed to producing or arranging.  About 50 of his own operas have been identified, though not all of them are extant in a complete form.  Eventually, he attracted the attention of the music-loving Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and moved to Vienna in 1740 in the hope of securing the monarch’s patronage.  Unfortunately for the ‘Red Priest,’ as Vivaldi was known because of his shock of red hair, Charles VI died shortly after he arrived in the city.  HIs hopes dashed, Vivaldi died impoverished in 1741, and was interred — like Mozart — in a pauper’s grave in Vienna.

    My own favourite of his works is his oratorio Juditha Triumphans (1716), based on the biblical tale of Judith’s beheading of Holofernes.

    The title page of Vivaldi’s Juditha Triumphans, or Judith Triumphant.

    An oratorio, it too was commissioned by the Pietà for its girl musicians. There are 11 singing part

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