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Antonio Vivaldi
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Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Name
Born March 4, 1678
 Venice, Republic of Venice (Italy Actual)
Died July 28, 1741 (63 years)
 Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Current Austria)
Occupation Composer, violinist, opera impresario and Priest
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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (Venice, March 4, 1678 - Vienna, July 28, 1741), better knownas Antonio Vivaldi was a composer and musician of the late Baroque. This is one of the most important figures in the history of music. His expertise is reflected in having cemented the genre of the concert, the most important of his time.
He was nicknamed il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest") by a priest (Catholic) and red. He composed about 770 works, among which 477 have concerts and 46 operas. Heis best known, at the grassroots level, as the author of the series of concerts for violin and orchestra The Four Seasons. This work, which is part of the cycle of his opus 8 "Il Cimento e dell'inventione dell'Armonia" has assumed paramount importance for the break with Soli Concerto, Vivaldi established by it. Until then, the Concerto Soli was a concert in which the solo instrument carrying thefull weight of the melody and composition, and the rest of the orchestra is merely exercising the accompaniment by the rules of harmony.
However, Four Seasons violin concertos are few in which the orchestra is not acting as mere background accompaniment, but as a relief: not merely accompany the soloist, but it helps the development of the work. This will influence later Handel concerts andespecially Bach, as it would study assiduously Vivaldi concert, and would be from the original innovations that Bach Vivaldi concert refine the concept. Thus, with the musical form of the Concerto Soli be achieved definitively define what might be called the modern concert solo instrument, establishing a balance between soloist and orchestra, concert without reaching the point of having to beconsidered a concerto grosso, in establishing a dialogue between orchestra and soloist roles so that soloist and accompanist are exchanged between a small group of instruments (violin, sometimes a single instrument) usually acting solo, and orchestra (the ripieno). At this point, however, was a process that led to Corelli and Giuseppe Torelli Arcangello to cycles where Vivaldi arguably instrumentalexperience with this genre. Notably cycle eg Opus 3, which receives a large domain in its concept and concerto grosso concerto with soli, where the most popular are the Opus 3 in A minor N6 and N11 Opus3 in D minor, which presents a wonderful example of fugue in four voices (two violins, viola, cello and continuo). So, The Four Seasons Concerto represent perfect Soli, insomuch that significantlyinfluences the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, Haydn and inexorably it, and Haydn, in turn, to become master of, among others, Beethoven, extends the Vivaldi influenced more musicians but probably had known the work of Vivaldi.
Contents [hide]
1 Biography
2 Musical Forms
3 Trivia
Concert and Concerto Grosso 4 "per Soli"
May His works
5.1 Operas
5.2 Instrumental
5.2.1 Concert
Vocal Music 5.35.3.1 Cantatas
5.3.2 Serenades
5.3.3 Motets
Sacred Music 5.4
5.4.1 Oratorios
6 Discography recommended
7 See also
8 External links
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Antonio Vivaldi's father, the musician Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, nicknamed Rosso (Red), was a founding member of "Sovvegno of 'Musicisti di Santa Cecilia", a professional organization of musicians Venetians also was a violinist in theorchestra of the Basilica of San Marcos and in the theater of S. Giovanni Grisostomo. He was the first teacher of his son, who was probably a pupil of Giovanni Legrenzi.
The September 18, 1693, Antonio entered a seminary and received his first religious orders. In 1699 he was ordained subdeacon (April 4), then deacon (September 18, 1700) and finally anointed priest on March 23, 1703. More music leaning...