Antonio Vivaldi The Baroque period was one of the most fancy styles of music ever written. It is often referred to as a flamboyant kind of style. This period, which lasted from 1600 to 1750, introduced us to many famous composers that are looked up to including Claudio Monteverdi, Henry Purcell, Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. The focus of this paper will be who Antonio Vivaldi was, his famous piece of work called The Four Seasons and his influence on the music during the Baroque period
Dilpreet Sidhu Grant Parker MUFHL 310 16 December 2014 Antonio Vivaldi: The (Magnificent) Red Priest The (Magnificent) Red Priest, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, was born on the fourth of March in the year 1678 and lived to be sixty three years old, passing away on the twenty eighth of July in the year of 1741. Vivaldi was of Italian descent and was also a Baroque composer, a teacher, a cleric, and extremely skilled with the works of a violin. He was born in Venice, Italy and even today is considered one
Baroque composer, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy to parents Camilla Calicchio and Giovanni Battista. In 1693 at fifteen, he began studying to become a priest, receiving his training at the Church of St. Geminiano, then at the Church of San Giovanni in Oleo. Unlike other priests in training, who attended the main seminary on the island of Murano, Vivaldi spent his ten-year apprenticeship at home, entering priesthood in 1703. This same year, he was hired as a violin