Antonio Vivaldi
Baroque composer, violinist, and impresario of Venice.
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Vivaldi was born on 4 March 1678 in Venice, the son of Giovanni Battista Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio.[1] He had five known siblings and suffered from a condition interpreted as a form of asthma.[2][3] His father, a barber turned professional violinist, taught him the violin and took him on tour around Venice.[2] At age fifteen he began studying to become a priest and was ordained in 1703, earning the nickname "il Prete Rosso" (The Red Priest).[4]
The midwife performed his baptism at home right after his birth, probably because he was in fragile health.[5] While employed there over the following three decades, he wrote the majority of his important works.[6] Vivaldi, aged 63, died of an "internal infection" during the night of 27/28 July 1741 in a house owned by a Viennese saddlemaker's widow.[7]
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The Scaramuccia Ensemble notes that 2015 brought the discovery of two new Vivaldi works: a Trio sonata in G major (RV 820) and a Sonata for violin in A major (RV 205/2).[8] The Trio sonata was independently identified in 2014 by scholars Federico Maria Sardelli and Javier Lupiáñez.[8] That trio sonata is the earliest known work by Vivaldi and shows him influenced by Corelli, Bonporti, and Torelli.[8] The Sonata in A major contains over fifty references to other Vivaldian works and was included in RISM as RV 205/2.[8]
The Scaramuccia Ensemble states that Dresden is a major archive of Vivaldi’s music, largely due to his friend and pupil Georg Pisendel.[8] A source on the Karlskirche states that Vivaldi was interred in a cemetery adjacent to that church, and his grave, like Mozart's, has not been preserved.[9]
References
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Talbot 1978, p. 207; Landon 1996, p. 15 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Talbot 1978, p. 207 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Talbot 1978, p. 207; Talbot 1978, p. 207 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Landon 1996, p. 15; Pincherle 1957, p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Kolneder 1982, p. 46; White 2013, p. 11; Talbot 1978, p. 207 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Heller 1997, p. 41 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Antonio Vivaldi" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Pincherle 1957, p. 16 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- New Discoveries of Vivaldi. Scaramuccia Ensemble. Retrieved 27 October 2023.. facts only, no text reused. scaramucciaensemble.com
- "Die Karlskirche Wien". facts only, no text reused. konzert-wien.info
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