POETRY MADE SHEET - VIVALDI
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Venice, March 4, 1678-Vienna, July 28, 1741) 2 was a composer, violinist, impresario, teacher and Venetian Catholic priest of the Baroque. He was nicknamed Il prete rosso ("The red priest") for being a priest and a redhead. His mastery is reflected in having cemented the genre of the concert, the most important of his time.2 He composed some 770 works, among which there are more than 400 concerts and about 46 operas. He is especially known, at the popular level, for being the author of the series of concerts for violin and orchestra The Four Seasons.
In September 1703, Vivaldi became maestro di violino (violin teacher) at an orphanage called the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.7 Although Vivaldi is most famous as a composer, he was also considered a violinist with exceptional technique. The German architect Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach refers to Vivaldi as "the famous composer and violinist" and said that "Vivaldi performed a solo accompaniment in an excellent way and in the conclusion he added a free fantasy [an improvised cadence], which absolutely it surprised, because it is almost impossible that someone has ever touched, or even touched, in such a way ».
Vivaldi was only 25 when he started working at the Ospedale della Pietà. During the next thirty years he composed most of his most important works while working there. There were four similar institutions in Venice, whose purpose was to provide shelter and education to abandoned or orphaned children, or whose families could not support them. They were financed with funds provided by the Republic. Children learned a trade and had to leave the institution when they reached the age of fifteen. The girls received a musical education and the most talented stayed and became members of the well-known orchestra and choir of the Ospedale.
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Personally Vivaldi is one of my favorite composers of the Baroque period, a work that marked my beginnings in the violin was the Concert in A Minor, which is loaded with many emotions, the simple fact of touching it is like you teleport it hahaha Well, it's what I feel.
Vivaldi - Violin Concerto in A Minor RV356
