La costanza trionfante degl'amori e de gl'odii (1716) was and still is one of Vivaldi’s most recognizable work and has been widely performed. In 1716, he was made the Maestro De' Concerti in Ospedale della Pietà, and wrote Juditha Triumphans, an oratorio, that same year. He got to make the acquaintance of both Domenico Scarlatti and George Frideric Handel in Venice. III, which was a collection of 12 concerti for violin and string. Going forward, in 1711, Vivaldi was responsible for the L'estro armonico, Op.

The following years, he remained busy with the publication of his trio sonatas in 1705 and the violin sonatas in 1709. His immense talents with the instrument deservedly saw him become the violin master at the convent, Ospedale della Pietà in 1703. Vivaldi was nicknamed Il Prete Rosso due to his rich volume of red hair, and he joined the San Marco Basilica himself, as a violinist in 1696. It can be safely assumed that his musical genesis began under his father, Giovanni Battista, a violinist at the orchestra of Venice’s San Marco Basilica. His operas Argippo (1730) and Bajazet (1735) are some of the most respected pieces of his time. With every work, his admirers and enthusiasts increased and they regarded him as a master of both form and pattern. But he found his inner calling in music and recognized that as both his passion and career.

Antonio Vivaldi: The Priest Who Embraced MusicĪs one of the foremost musical personalities of his time, Vivaldi was initially ordained to be a priest in 1703. He left behind an everlasting body of work that not only inspired contemporaries but still impresses today.

Leading a life of musical realization, whereupon he composed a number of inventive tunes and pieces, the virtuoso breathed his last in 1741. Musical Media: orchestra, chamber music, opera, songs, choral, violinĪntonio Vivaldi, one of the masters of the Baroque musical era, was an Italian, who was born in Venice in 1678.

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