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Antonio Vivaldi: Concertos
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Guide Note: Antonio Vivaldi was a celebrated Italian composer of baroque classical music. He was born in Venice in 1678 and worked for 30 years as Choirmaster in an orphanage for girls. Of the 500 concertos he wrote during his life, the most widely recognized are "The Four Seasons".
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According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Antonio Vivaldi was an Italian violinist and composer; ... priest, nicknamed "the red priest" from the colour of his hair. Pupil of Legrenzi. Long in charge of music at an orphanage-conservatory in Venice, but died in obscure circumstances in Vienna. Wrote more than 450 concertos (broadly conforming to the concerto grosso type) with various solo instruments, many with illustrative titles e.g. "The Four Seasons"; also operas, church music, oratorios, including "Juditha Triumphans". Johann Sebastian Bach admired him and transcribed many of his works and there has been a notable revival of interest in his works in the mid-20th century.
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Antonio Vivaldi's output was enormous. He wrote 94 operas, and although theses are rarely revived, 19 of them are preserved. He had written around 500 concertos. It is said that he invented the ritornello form. This is where varied restatements in different keys of a refrain, alternate with modulating episodes of free thematic character, where a soloist predominates. If he did not invent this, he was certainly the first to use this technique . If can be found in almost all of his works.
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Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 531 - for Two Cellos and Piano Piano reduction by Ghendini G.f, composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), edited by Janos Starker. For 2 cellos and piano accompaniment. 21 pages. Published by International Music Co. (IM.1782)
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Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy. Vivaldi was a violinist and composer who ... became a priest in 1703. He was known as the "Red Priest" because of his red hair. He wrote hundreds of concertos, chamber works and operas in the Baroque style.
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Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 – July 28, 1741), Italian composer, violinist and conductor, was born in Venice. A prolific Italian Baroque composer, he was nicknamed Il Prete Rosso (Red Priest) because of his flaming hair color. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (Le Quattro Stagione) is enormously popular. Several of his concertos were transcribed by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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