You may ask... who was Antonio Vivaldi?  I'll tell you who he was.  Antonio Vivaldi was a composer of the baroque era.  Although his concertos The Four Seasons are now inescapable, even in environments well sealed from the elements such as lifts and shopping malls, Vivaldi spent a great deal of his career complaining that no-one took his music seriously. Indeed, many of his contemporaries did consider him banal. He was known as 'the Red Priest' because of the colour of his hair, although his flaming temper might have something to do with it too: he was an ambitious, vain and volatile man with a colourful sex life too. Though based in Venice he tried to establish an international reputation, but in his later years the Venetians got bored with him, so he set about conquering Vienna. Unfortunately the Viennese showed even less interest, and Vivaldi couldn't even conquer his asthma, so he was actually buried in a pauper's grave. Presumably the same one as Mozart was buried in 50 years later.

Antonio Vivaldi
1678-1741
-Ad te Suspirimus

-Cello Sonata in E minor, 1st movement

-Concerto for Violin in G, 1st movement

Concerto in G for flute, oboe, and bassoon
    -allegro ma cantabile
    -allegro non molto
    -largo

Gloria
    -Cum Sancto Spiritu
    -et in terra Pax
    -Gloria in Excelsis Deo
    -Gratias Agimus Tibi, Properter Magnum Gloriam
    -Laudamus Te

LE QUATTRO STAGIONI

   Primavera (Spring)
    -1st movement (Allegro)
    -2nd movement (Largo e pianissimo sempre)
    -3rd movement (Danza Pastorale, Allegro)

    L'estate (Summer)
      -1st movement (Allegro non molto)
      -3rd movement (Presto)

    L'inverno (Winter)
        -complete
 



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