Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Written by Dreamworldtech on Friday 22 February 2008
Popular virtuoso violinist, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4, 1678. He was also a well known priest and Baroque music composer. Vivaldi was lovingly known as ‘The Red Priest’. His most famous work is The Four Seasons. It is a grand collection of four violen concertros and a very well-known Baroque music piece. Vivaldi was instated as Maestro di Cappella of the court of prince Phillip in 1717 or 1718. Staying there over the period of three years he produced a couple of operas. Tito Manlio is one such opera produced at that time. He presented a facinating pastoral drama La Silvia in Milan in 1721. Afterwards, an oratorio L’adorazione delli tre re magi al bambino Gesù was presented in 1722. He produced four operas upon coming back to Venice in 1725. He came up with Four seasons at the same time. It consisted of four violin concertos portraying scenes of nature in music. The first concerto, “Spring” was created under the inspiration of Sinfonia in the first act of his opera “I1 Giustino” and the others were the result of original ideas. The countryside area near Mantua is possibly considered to be the inspiration behind these amazing works of art.
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