Antonio Vivaldi

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Antonio Vivaldi's albums, compilations, singles and EPs, live albums, and videos discography with cataloged releases, editions, and credits

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Italian Baroque music composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. Born March 4, 1678, Sestiere di San Marco, Repùblica Vèneta, Italy. Died July 28, 1741, Kärntnertor, Vienna, Austria. He is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque music composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe. He is known mainly for composing many instrumental concertos, for the violin and a variety of other instruments, as well as sacred choral works and more than forty operas. His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as "The Four Seasons". Vivaldi's career as a violinist and composer was almost inevitable. His father was Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, a founder of the Sovvegno dei musicisti di Santa Cecilia, an early musician's collective, who's President was the Baroque operatic composer and tutor Giovanni Legrenzi. As a youth, touring and performing around Venice in accompaniment on the violin with his father, he is likely to have been influenced by Legrenzi who had become maestro di cappella at St. Mark's Basilica in 1681. A redhead like his father, Vivaldi took up the course of attaining a priesthood in 1693 and became ordained in 1703, referred to by those around him as "Il Prete Rosso" because of his red hair. By late 1703 he was unable to maintain his practice in the priesthood due to ill health and sought employment as a tutor of music, retaining his reverential title. By 1704 he worked as maestro of violin in Venice at the orphanage of the Devout Hospital of Mercy, an institution known as Conservatorio dell'Ospedale della Pietà, providing shelter to orphaned and abandoned children. Here the boys were taught a trade, whilst the girls were given a musical education. The talented were selected for the conservatory's orchestra & choir, which gained high regard both in Venice and abroad. Vivaldi used this period to write the majority of his concertos, cantatas and arias. The institute provided an ideal environment for Vivaldi to explore the avenues of the ritornello form. The first of his works were published in 1705, a second Opus in 1709. His third Opus was published in Amsterdam in 1711 and gained him enthusiastic attention throughout Europe – followed by a fourth Opus in 1714. He became Musical Director of the Pietà's institute in 1716 and was contracted to provide two concerti a month for the orchestra. Papers from the Pietà's history show that Vivaldi produced 140 concerti between 1723 and 1733. In 1714 Vivaldi took on the role of impresario of the theater Sant'Angelo in Venice, presenting "Orlando finto pazzo", "Nerone fatto Cesare" and, despite earlier censorship, "Arsilda Regina di Ponto" in which the female lead (Arsilda) falls in love with another woman (Lisea), who is disguised as a man. Vivaldi's operatic style caused both outrage and acclaim. For three years he produced operatic work for the governor of Mantua, Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt. He then moved to Milan and then Rome in 1722, performing for Pope Benedict XIII. It is in this period that he consolidated what was to become one of his most popular works "The Four Seasons", eventually published within a collection of twelve compositions "Il Cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione" in 1725. Vivaldi had moved in high circles at this point, writing a wedding cantata for Louis XV and "La Cetra", a dedication to Viennese Emperor Charles VI who knighted the composer and invited him to Vienna. By 1730 Vivaldi's style and popularity had waned and he sold up much of the rights to his work and relocated to Vienna, accompanied by his father. He took residence in a four-story house known as "Satlerisch Haus" (saddle-maker's house) ran by Maria Agathe Wahler, the widow of the saddlemaker. The property was situated above the Kärntnertor, one of eight fortification gates surrounding Vienna, close to the Kärntnertortheater where Vivaldi began to stage operas such as "Farnace" in 1737. It is likely that he was to take up a position in the court of Charles VI but when the emperor suddenly died in 1740 – reputedly of mushroom poisoning, Vivaldi was left stranded without royal support or full remuneration. His health quickly declined and his asthmatic history took its toll some nine months later. He died of 'internal infection' at his home in Vienna. He was given a simple burial in the cemetery of Spitaller Gottesacker following a funeral at St. Stephen's Cathedral.

Discography

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Concerto Für Streichorchester In A-moll / Air

1938

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The Four Seasons

1949

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Concerto In E Flat Major Double Concerto In B Flat Major

1949

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2 Concerti For Viola D'amore, Strings And Cembalo

1950

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Violin Concerto In E Flat Major ✳ Violin Concerto In G Minor

1950

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Concerto in A minor / Concerto in D minor

1950

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Vivaldi: Concerto grosso in D minor, op. 3 no. 11 / Mozart: Divertimento in D major, K. 251

1950

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A Survey Of Bach's Organ Music - Volume I

1951

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Beatus Vir - Oratorio

1952

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L’Estro armonico: 12 Concerti for String Orchestra

1952

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Concerto De Vivaldi Pour Violon, Orchestre Et Clavecin / Concerto De J.-S. Bach Pour Deux Clavecins Et Orchestre À Cordes

1952

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La Cetra [The Lyre], Twelve Concerti, Opus IX

1952

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La cetra: Twelve Concerti, Opus IX

1952

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Concerto for Five Instruments in D Major "La Pastorella"

1953

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Bassoon Concerto In D Minor / Oboe Concerto In C Minor

1953

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Concertos For Two Trumpets And Orchestra In C And E Flat / Concertos For Oboe And Orchestra In D Minor And F

1953

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Concerto In C Major / Concerto In F Major

1953

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Les Quatre Saisons

1953

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Konzert E-Moll / Suite Für Cello Und Orchester / Konzert Für Cello Und Orchester B-dur

1954

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Four Vivaldi Concerti

1954

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Concerto Grosso; Concerto; Sonatas

1954

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2 Concertos

1954

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Concerto In E Minor For 'Cello And String Orchestra / Pieces En Concert For 'Cello And String Orchestra / Concerto In B Flat Major For 'Cello And String Orchestra

1954

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Bonporti: Concerto in Re maggiore, op. 11 no. 8 / Concerto in Si bemolle maggiore, op. 11 no. 3 / Vivaldi: Concerto in Do maggiore, F. V no. 1 / Concerto d’orchestra in Sol minore

1954

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Gloria / Exultate Jubilate

1954

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Die Vier Jahreszeiten - Vier Concerti Grossi, Op. 8

1955

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Las Estaciones, Op. 8

1955

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Las 4 Estaciones

1955

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Les Quatre Saisons / The Four Seasons

1955

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Concertos And Sonatas, Vol. II

1955

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Il Cimento Dell'Armonia E Dell'Inventione ( Comprenant Les Quatres Saisons ) Op. 8 - 12 Concertos Pour Violon

1955

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Concerto Pour Quatre Clavecins / Concerto En Ut Pour Trois Clavecins

1955

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Four Concerti / Trumpet, Woodwinds & Strings

1955

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Les quatre saisons

1955

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Toccata en fa majeur / Concerto pour 2 trompettes en ut / Sonate en fa dièse, op. 78, « À Thérèse » / Symphonie n° 26 en mi bémol (K. 184) / Fantaisie‐impromptu, op. 66 / Carnaval romain, Ouverture

1955

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Le Quattro Stagioni

1956

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The Four Seasons

1956

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Les Quatre Saisons

1956

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Concerto Grosso No. 1, / Concerto In A Major For Viola D'Amore / Concerto In D Minor, Op. 3, No. 11 ( "L'Estro Armonico") / Concerto In F For Piano, Strings

1956

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Un Bouquet de Concerti

1956

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Concerto No. 2 in A Minor (BWV 593) / Trois Chorales

1956

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Concerto In C Minor; Concerto In C Major; Concerto In G Major / Concerto No. 3 In C Major / Concerto No. 6 In E Major

1956

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Gloria Mass / Midnight Mass

1956

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Gloria, Pour Solistes, Chœur À Quatre Voix Mixtes Et Orchestre

1956

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Las Cuatro Estaciones

1956

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Vivaldi 4 Concerti

1956

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Las Cuatro Estaciones

1957

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Concerto For Two Violins And String Orchestra In A Minor

1957

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