Super antonio vivaldi biography pdf

In early 18th century Venice there lived a self-assured red-haired priest named Antonio Lucio Vivaldi. Traveling with an entourage that nearly always included his elderly father and several young women, he oversaw the performance of operas and instrumental pieces that have come to define classical music as we now know it.

He always worked quickly, and most of his pieces—unusual for the genre—were both short and memorable.

In that respect, it could be said that he invented the radio single (albeit several centuries before the invention of radio).

Super antonio vivaldi biography pdf

His compositions are immortal and ubiquitous; if you can hear music, you’ve heard his work.

But he isn’t very well known as a person, so it’s understandable that we might get an unrealistic impression of who he was.

If you see him as the archetypal composer of his era, you might imagine a relatively healthy, sheltered aristocrat who was paid large sums of money to create dinner-party entertainment for the idle rich. Outside of the