![]() 1735 also saw the composition of Bajazet which reflects the Venetian preoccupation with Venice’s position on the edge of Asia, and the constant fear of invasion. We do know that in 1735 the opera Griselda was performed in Venice’s Teatro San Samuele, from which Vivaldi had up until then been excluded. He was certainly prolific, concentrating mostly on opera, and he visited Mantua, Verona and Amsterdam. Not a lot is known about Vivaldi’s life during the 1730s. In 1730 Vivaldi was in Vienna and Prague, where the opera Farnace was produced. He wrote a cantata for the wedding in 1725 of Louis XV of France to the Polish Princess Maria. The first four works in the collection were The Four Seasons, which have become, probably, the best known and most played compositions in the classical repertoire.īy this time Vivaldi was at the height of his powers and fame. In 1725 in Amsterdam a collection of 12 concerti by Vivaldi, his Opus 8, was published under the title Il cimento dell'Armonia e dell’Inventione. Operas were produced in both these cities but they have been lost. In 1721 he was in Milan and in 1722 in Rome. Vivaldi returned to Venice and the Pietà . ![]() In 1720 the Empress died in Vienna and all theatres in the Empire were closed. ![]() Vivaldi spent three years in Mantua and wrote several operas, including Tio Manlio. He kept a relationship with the Pietà though, and was paid to compose two concerti a month and to rehearse the orchestra from time to time. It 1717 or 1718 Vivaldi left Venice – it seems that he was not reappointed to the position at the Pieta – and took a position at the court in Mantua then part of the Austrian Empire. It was a moderate success and over the next few years he wrote Orlando Finto Pazzo (1714), Orlando Furiosa (1714) and Arsilda Regina di Ponto (1716) as well as several that have been lost (or perhaps, not yet found). Vivaldi composed his first opera Ottone in Villa in 1713 and it was performed in a theatre in Vicenza. The public paid for the musical performances but could not see the singers and players, who were behind the screen.īy the second decade of the 18th century, opera had become hugely popular in Italy. Vivaldi taught violin and composed sonatas, concertos and church music. The Pieta had an excellent choir and orchestra, drawn from the girls and young women living there. Though a priest, Vivaldi was exempted from saying Mass on health grounds – he suffered from asthma – and so he concentrated on his music. In the year he was ordained Vivaldi became a violin teacher at the orphanage for girls the Ospedale della Pieta, a local school for homeless girls. Vivaldi began his training for the priesthood in 1693 when he was 15 and was ordained in 1703 at 25. It is not clear whether Antonio was encouraged to join the church because that was the best place for a musician or whether, as some have suggested, it was a natural occupation for the eldest son of a poor family. It seems that Giovanni decided that music would be a better career than barbering for his son so he taught him the violin from a very early age. His father Giovanni (a barber who became a violinist) and his mother Camilla had six children in total. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on 4 March 1678 in Venice then a rich, though declining, republic. ![]()
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