March 4, 2010
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Happy birth day for Vivaldi..
Ｂａｓｉｌｉｃｉａ ｄｉ Ｓａｎ Ｍａｒｃｏ （Ｖｅｎｅｚｉａ）
Vivaldi(1678-1741) born today of 332years ago at Venezia in
Italy..I first knew his name and listenｅｄ ” The Four seasons “
at lowteen age..how It make me happy mind and opend interest
to classic music…However, his life style didn’t reach our ear instead of his
great name or great play of ” The Four seasons” by I Musici
to the world….His father was violinist and barber..He mastered play violin
from father and entered Catholic school..He became priest at
25age and menber of orchestra in Basilicia di San Marco..
He teached at music school in Ospedale Della Pieta that for
girl orphan…Concert was opened every week there, so he
composed a lot of Opera or Concerto or Sonata…especially,
he wrote 200 of violin concerto in 500 of ｈｉｓ concerto..
His name wasn’t so famous at his age, but Bach learned his
music and try 10 arrangement from Vivaldi’s piece and
was misunderstood with Bach’s compose..He seems did a lot of work by compose and got ultimatly money
by them, but strange destiny happened after he moved to Wien
in Austria…He went to there with ambition but unfortunatly,
he became miserable and pass away at once..and he was buried
ｉn poor grave in there…It was happnning in one year…
It discovered his enormous piece at 1926, Vivaldi was close
uped baroque music world at last and be shinning now….
Comments (3)
He was also known as ‘The Red Priest.’ I didn’t know he died a pauper. Mozart also died a pauper. What great music they left us all.
Such genius!
I wasn’t sure how “The Four Seasons” sounded until I played a clip of it from Wikipedia, and I then recognized it instantly. What a wonderful composer Vivaldi was. It’s just a shame that he died so poor and unhappy. He deserved a better fate, but his music lives on.