I have to disagree with certain things people have said about Vivaldi’s music, like that which my husband says frequently about him, “He’s ok, just nice to have on in the background. La Fida Ninfa: an opera by Antonio Vivaldi (1732): My all-time favourite Vivaldi piece is “Vedro con mio diletto,” from his opera Giustino (1724) which is here performed perfectly by Philippe Jaroussky and Ensemble Matheus under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi: By that nickname, you’ll gather that he was a priest, which he was, though that vocation was never as important to him as music. Born into a family of redheads, he also had beautiful red hair which would form part of his nickname – The Red Priest. He wrote 46 gorgeous operas, over 500 brilliant concertos, 90 sonatas, and sacred choral, sinfonias – he did everything, and he did them well…Īntonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on the 4th of March, 1678, in one of the most beautiful cities in the world: Venice, or Venezia, as it is in Italian. For whilst The Four Seasons concertos have memorable melodies full of the extravagant beauty of the Baroque, it is not the only work worth listening to by Vivaldi. He was extremely talented and prolific, yet most people only know of his Four Seasons, and I would like to take the time to correct this. Antonio Vivaldi is one of the main composers one automatically thinks of when the word “Baroque” is used.
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