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Antonio Vivaldi’s father, Giovanni Battista, was the son of a tailor. He was born in 1655 in Brescia and later moved with his mother to Venice in 1666. Giovanni worked as a baber, but eventually became a professional violinist. Giovanni married Camilla Calicchio, who ... happened to be the daughter of a tailor, in 1676. Together they had nine children of whom Antonio Vivaldi was the oldest. In 1685, Giovanni, under the surname of Rossi, became a full-time violinist at St. Mark’s.
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Vivaldi initially joined the conservatory faculty at the Pieta as a violin instructor, though from early in his tenure he was ... active as a composer. In 1705 he published a set of trios, and followed it with a set of violin sonatas in 1709. But he had already begun to cultivate what would become his most congenial and characteristic compositional form, the concerto. Many of his works of this type must have been written specifically for certain players at the Pieta – especially Vivaldi’s best violin students – and performed by the school’s orchestra. The impression his pieced made probably contributed to Vivaldi’s promotion to the post of maestro dei concerti at the Pieta in 1716.
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Vivaldi's father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, was born in 1655. Eleven years later, after the death of his father, he moved to Venice with his mother. He worked as a barber before becoming a professional violinist. In 1676, he married Camilla Calicchio. Vivaldi was born in two years later. He was the oldest of nine children.
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In February 1711, Vivaldi and his father went to Brescia where his setting of the Stabat Mater (RV 621) was played as part of a religious festival. The work seems to have been written in haste: the string parts are simple, the music of the first three movements is repeated in the next three, and not all the text is set. However, and in part as a consequence of the forced essentiality of the music, the work reveals musical and emotional depth and is one of his early masterpieces.
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Vivaldi ... wrote works on commission from foreign rulers, such as the French king, Louis XV - the serenade La Sena festeggiante (Festival on the Seine), for example. This work cannot be dated precisely, but it was certainly written after 1720.
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For many years Vivaldi's work was largely forgotten, but in the mid 20th century the discovery of a large number of manuscripts, combined with the revival of interest in the Baroque period, produced a Vivaldi renaissance. The advent of the long playing record gave a final push, and Vivaldi's music is probably better known today than it has ever been.
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