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Antonio Vivaldi: Vienna
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After forty years of service, Vivaldi left the Pietà and moved to Vienna to work for a former friend who was now an emperor, Charles VI. But Charles died suddenly from food poisoning and no one else in Vienna was interested in hiring Vivaldi. Sadly, within a year, Vivaldi ... died on July 28, 1741. The cause was given as "internal inflammation," which could have meant almost anything in those days. He received the cheapest possible funeral. The field where he was buried has disappeared entirely.
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In 1738 Vivaldi was in Amsterdam where he conducted a festive opening concert for the 100th Anniversary of the Schouwburg Theater. Returning to Venice, which was at that time suffering a severe economic downturn, he resigned from the Ospedale in 1740, planning to move to Vienna under the patronage of his admirer Charles VI. His stay in Vienna was to be shortlived ... for he died on July 28th 1741 "of internal fire" (probably the asthmatic bronchitis from which he suffered all his life) and, like Mozart fifty years later, received a modest burial. Anna Giraud returned to Venice, where she died in 1750.
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As popular as Vivaldi is in the early twenty-first century, he actually faded from view from his death until the middle of the twentieth century. At his death, he had exhausted his funding , his patron Charles VI had predeceased him, and he was buried with the paupers in Vienna. His work disappeared until 1926. A few pieces were held as collectors' items, but performance of Vivaldi concerti and other music basically vanished. Then through a near-miraculous chain of events, fortunately coinciding with a revival of interest in the Baroque period, his music was discovered in the archives of a boarding school, catalogued and protected through World War II, and finally given a season-long performance in London in 1951.
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Rumors of a sexual liaison with one of his vocal students later in Vivaldi’s life caused ecclesiastical authorities to censure him. His Italian career on the rocks, he headed for Vienna. He died there, buried as a pauper in 1741, although at the height of his career his publications had earned a comfortable living.
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Vivaldi continued to lead a busy life. He traveled extensively, worked on again off again for the Pietà, and composed for many different people. Vivaldi died on July 28, 1741, while on a trip Vienna, and was given a pauper's burial.
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In large part because of the scandals that dogged his name, Vivaldi was effectively exiled from Venice, the city he loved so well. He died at the age of 63 in July 1741 in Vienna, where he was buried in a pauper’s grave.
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