Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter - Which season do you like best?

Vivaldi Four Seasons Winter - Which season do you like best?

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi - was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher, and priest.

Hello, my beautiful friends! Thanks for coming again! Today I am going to talk about one of the most important pieces of classical music: The Four Season - Winter!!

Light, bright and cheerful are hallmarks of some of the early songs of the early 18th century. They have appeared in movies and TV commercials. But what are they, and why do they sound like that? The four seasons Vivaldi and I will write about the winter piece!

Reading poems simultaneous with the concert made people to be perceived as romantic scenes pleasantly synchronized with a musical image. Those who are pushed into the spring with the cheerful are now just that.

However, Comes a storm. Along with thunder and bright sounds, there are also more birds, wet, scared, and sad.

The winter piece begins in the cold before someone takes refuge. Then return to the storm, so that slips and falls on the ice. The first week of winter, the old year of late afternoon, as well as a musical journey that makes the seasons.

Only in the early 19th century did the expressive music program, as it became known, become popular. At the time, the most extensive and most varied were the rule, with woods, metals, and percussion helping to tell the story. But Vivaldi was only able to do it with a violin, strings and a harpsichord. Unlike his contemporary Bach, Vivaldi was not very interested in complicated escapes. He would rather have easy and easy access to his listeners, with melodies they had later in the same piece, to remind us of where we were. Spring movement begins with a spring theme and ends with it, with a slight variation from what was heard at the beginning. Btw, Summer probably it will be my next post!

In the composer's time, a piece by Vivaldi was fun for everyone, not just wealthy aristocrats. Today, 300 years later, and yet a Vivaldi song still sounds AMAZING! Just look on Vivaldi four seasons youtube!

Antonio Vivaldi was a crucial Italian musician and composer of the late Baroque period. It is considered one of the most notable figures of world classical music. He stood out mainly for his concerts that influenced several musicians of later periods. During his lifetime he produced about 770 works, of which 477 were concerts and 46 operas. His best-known work is "The Four Seasons" (violin and orchestra concerts).

Biography - Summary

- Vivaldi was born in the city of Venice (Italy) on March 4, 1678.
- The son of a barber who was also a violinist, Vivaldi was encouraged early on in the music field.
- As a child, he went to study music in the Chapel of St. Mark.
- He became a priest in 1703 but did not have health conditions (respiratory problems) to perform masses. Soon, he began to devote himself to music production. He also worked as a violin teacher in an orphanage called "Ospedale Della Pietà" in the city of Venice.
- In 1705 began his musical career with the publication of his first collection: "Twelve Sonatas for Two Violins and Continuous Bass." It was the first of many other artistic works.
- In 1723, Vivaldi published Opus 3, which contains his most famous musical work, "The Four Seasons."
- During his career, he published concerts, sonatas, operas, sacred vacuum works, cantatas, motets, arias, and melodies.
-Like many musicians and artists of the time, Vivaldi faced financial difficulties at the end of his life.
- With the advent of Classicism, his works were dropped into oblivion and rescued in the early twentieth century.
- Vivaldi died on July 28, 1741, at the age of 63.

His parent was a barber but also developed his gift for the violin. It was not difficult for the simple man to promote the beginning of the artistic trajectory of his son. Inscribing him in the Ducal Chapel of St. Mark when he was still a child, to polish his talent in the sphere of music. His father also arranged for him to enter the St. Mark's Basilica orchestra; Then the young man stood out as the best violinist of his time.

Vivaldi chose the path of the priesthood, and in 1703 his option was made official. A year later, with his organism weakened by asthmatic crises, he was released from the deliberate practice of the Eucharist. Giving him the time to teach violin at Ospedale Della Pietà, a Venetian welfare establishment housing young girls and women.

 His work Estro Armonico made a profound impression on the whole European continent, which justifies Bach having reproduced in 1713 several of these concerts.

At this time the composer began to perform at the Teatro de Santo Ângelo. Where he completed his first opera productions and several musical pieces, including Orlando Furioso and La Stravaganza. Opus 8, which includes its classic, The Four Seasons, was generated at this time.



Vivaldi's dedication to the priesthood did not prevent him from nurturing various affective relationships, including his relationship with one of his pupils, Anna Giraud. It is said that he molded his operas according to the vocal skills of the young woman, which caused some setbacks and engendered one or another opponent.

Vivaldi died in the city of Vienna on July 28, 1741, at the age of 63. Currently, his work is limited to 456 concerts, 73 sonatas, 44 motets, three oratorios, two melodies, around 100 arias, 30 cantatas, and 47 operas. With the emergence of the classicist movement, the musician was buried in historical memory for a long time. Its production resurfaced in the last century, more precisely in the twenties.

Besides being a vital opera composer, he also acted as conductor, set designer and businessman. Vivaldi is part of the gallery of the masters of universal music.

By joining Ospedale, Vivaldi innovated the musical forms of the concert originated in Italy in the mid-17th century and called the full show. Vivaldi transformed it into a soloist and orchestra concert and modified the movements giving the concert more liveliness. Breaking the monotony of its predecessors. The Four Seasons, for violin and orchestra, is the most popular of their shows. Through music, she describes summer, winter, fall, and spring, exploring the instruments, especially the violin, where she can mimic the singing of birds, the trotting of horses, and the storm.

Again in Venice, he provided instrumental works for all of Europe. His fame spread not only in Italy but also in France, the Netherlands, Germany, and England. Two centuries later it came out of anonymity and became the object of study and research and alongside other composers became part of the gallery of the masters of universal music.

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