ANTONIO VIVALDI, Baroque and Venice

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ANTONIO VIVALDI borns in Venice in 1678; many peoples doesn't knows He was a 'Priest', beyond one of most important italian authors ever and composer of Italian classic music and Italian Baroque Music ever and one of most extraordinary violinist of his time.

We can also say that he was the most important and influent Italian author of his time; He helped to develop of 'concerto', together 'Torelli', another important Italian authors that we'll review. He wrote also: concerts, lyric music, 'sonate' and sacre music.

His music influenced many classic musicians; one of most knows is Bach . The life hasn't too evidences, but we knows something thanks to some his famouses contemporary the teathre author Carlo Goldoni and German architet Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach; as many others big music talents - Mozart for example - he dies forgot and alone about all the world. His father plays violin with Church's band and with a sort of trade union for musicians and composers, where plays'first' baroque music', Antonio takes his first lessons in that place. He has 24 years old when becames 'master of violin' ( maestro di violino) at an orphanage institute where he gives lessons. In that times many children were abandoned or orphaned or his familiars cannot support them also if Repubblic of Venice was very rich; in fact were was four of that kind of institutes, most talents of these boys and girls cluld go to choir or goes to do musicians. In the Venice of the early 18th century, opera was the most popular musical entertainment, and he starts to write its. Finally success becames and his operas are in Rome, Mantova, Milan, Venice. Is that time he writes "The four seasons" (Le quattro stagioni), his most knows concerts for violin: The nature's scene in music. They were a revolution in musical conception: in them Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterised), barking dogs, buzzing mosquitoes, crying shepherds, storms, drunken dancers, silent nights, hunting parties (both from the hunter's and the prey's point of view), frozen landscapes, children ice-skating, and burning fires. Each concerto was associated with a sonnet of Vivaldi's hand, describing the scenes depicted in the music. Most of Vivaldi's repertoire was rediscovered only in the first half of the 20th century in Turin and Genoa and was published in the second half. Vivaldi's music is innovative, breaking a consolidated tradition in schemes; he gave brightness to the formal and the rhythmic structure of the concerto, repeatedly looking for harmonic contrasts and invented innovative melodies and themes. Moreover, Vivaldi was able to compose non-academic music, particularly meant to be appreciated by the wide public and not only by an intellectual minority. The joyful appearance of his music reveals in this regard a transmissible joy of composing. These are among the causes of the vast popularity of his music. This popularity soon made him famous in other countries such as France which was, at the time, very independent concerning its musical taste. He dies in 1741.