A Brief Biography of Antonio Vivaldi

Vivaldi grew up in a Catholic family. His father was a talented violinist and would be his first teacher. This allowed them to perform together. He also took lessons from a choral teacher who knew violin. Vivaldi loves speed. At age 15, he began studying for the priesthood, which gave him 10 years to study and develop the musical and composing talents that is displayed in his works. Vivaldi spent his entire life, other than the last six or so years, with his father. As a child, they toured Venice together. Then, later on as a man, he toured Italy and later Europe. Vivaldi and his father were a pair and it seems that they held a good relationship. His father helped to write out some of the pieces that Vivaldi would think of. He preferred a combination of the choral religious music, dramatic-operatic, and classics of Italy. His most influential works were written for the orchestra of a Venetian girls’ orphanage where he was music director. It was for them that he wrote his famous concertos. Vivaldi also invented the concerto-grosso.

Antonio Vivaldi is a famous Italian baroque composer, known by most Suzuki violin students who study his concertos or by audiences everywhere who have heard and love his composition of the Four Seasons.  Having grown up as students of the Suzuki Violin Method, we recognize this composer and have experience performing his pieces.  In addition to his many concertos written for solo violin, Vivaldi composed many concertos intended to be performed by two solo violins, accompanied by a small orchestra.  Because we are both violinists, we chose to analyze the second movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 522, included in his L’Estro Armonico works.

A sonnet is a poem of fourteen lines that rhyme in a particular pattern. William Shakespeare’s sonnets were the only non-dramatic poetry that he wrote. Shakespeare used sonnets within some of his plays, but his sonnets are best known as a series of one hundred and fifty-four poems. The series of one hundred and fifty-four poems tell a story about a young aristocrat and a mysterious mistress. Many people have analyzed and contemplated about the significance of these “lovers”. After analysis of the content of both the “young man” sonnets and the “dark lady sonnets”, it is clear that the poet, Shakespeare, has a great love for the young man and only lusts after his mistress.

Antonio Vivaldi was born in 1678 in Venice; he was the eldest of nine children born to Giovanni Vivaldi and Camilla Calicchio. His family was fairly poor; his father was a barber turned professional violinist. His father cofounded a musical fraternity called the Sovvegno Dei Musicisti di Santa Cecilia in 1685 with Giovanni Legrenzi, a famous Venetian music figure. Antonio traveled around performing with his father

I selected Antonio Vivaldi as from the list of composers due to his vast influence in the development of music, including current popular styles such as the double violin concertos and ritornellos, and his influence on future composers such as Bach. Vivaldi’s significance to the music world is further emphasized by the introduction and popularization of concepts such as his usage of rhythm to create escalating tension and the application of motivic elements as themes for his pieces. Vivaldi’s life was set out to pursue priesthood from a young age yet, ironically, an illness allowed him to follow his true passion as both a violinist and composer. Antonio Vivaldi remained pious throughout his life and it was his particular education as a priest

Whistling Vivaldi by Claude M. Steele was a very eye opening book to read. I never realized before reading this book how big of an impact stereotype threat can have on people. I obviously knew of stereotyping, and all the different types of stereotyping there are, but I didn't realize how much of an impact it could have on education. When I think of stereotypes, I usually think of stereotyping different races, but this book brought to my attention that stereotyping can be towards gender, minorities in different situations, and many many more. After reading this book, I feel like it made me more conscious of what I say to people and the way I think of them. Also, it made me really open my eyes and made me aware for when I become a teacher and the way I portray others, and how it can effect them academically.

Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4th, 1678. He was born in Venice Italy, where his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, was a professional violinist who taught Antonio to play too. Through his father, Vivaldi met and learned from some of the greatest musicians and composers in Venice at that time. Vivaldi tried very hard to get religious training and musical instruction. At the age of 15, he started studying to become a priest. He was officially confirmed as a priest in 1703. Due to his red hair, Vivaldi was ultimately known as "the Red Priest." Vivaldi's career in the clergy was very short-lived. His health problems had prevented him from delivering mass at church and it drove him to leave behind the priesthood he had shortly after his ordination. When Antonio reached the age of 25, he became named as the master of violin at the Devout Hospital of Mercy that was in Venice. He had composed most of his major pieces while he was named this, in over three decades. This hospital was an institution where orphans were taught. The boys were in trades

Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy. When he was childhood was probably playing the violin around venice and going to mass every Sunday. His religion was being a catholic and singing during mass every sunday. Antonio had eight siblings, four brothers and four sisters. They were Francesco Gaetano Vivaldi, Zanetta Anna Vivaldi, Cecilia Maria Vivaldi, Bonaventura Tomaso Vivaldi, Margarita Gabriela Vivaldi, Gerolama Michela Vivaldi, Iseppo Gaetano Vivaldi, and Iseppo Santo Vivaldi. When he was 25 he became a priest. He got a nickname called “The Red Priest,” because of his red hair. He retired after 3 years because of illness. After priesthood he work for an Italian prince.

The Renaissance period occurred from 1400-1600. It can be separated into third smaller periods. The early, middle, and the late period, but for the sake of this paper, they will be referred to as stages to avoid confusion. This paper will compare two composers one from the early stage and another from the late stage. The early stage composer will be John Dunstable, and the late stage composer will be Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina. The purpose of this paper is to compare these two composers’ composition style through the analysis of two of their works.

Music is constantly changing. The Baroque period (1600-1750) and the Classical period (1750-1820) have both differences and similarities in elements such as form, texture, and dynamics. I will be comparing the first movement of Spring from the Four Seasons composed by Antonio Vivaldi and the first movement of Symphony No. 5 in C minor by Ludwig van Beethoven. I will construct a stylistic comparison of the two compositions and their musical stylings with regard to the periods of music of which they belong.

Antonio Vivaldi, a major composer during the Baroque period, made significant changes during his time, from numerous works to a teacher at the Pieta to a priest. Vivaldi excelled writing in many genres; however, he is known mainly for his concertos (Hanning & Burkholder 264). In the case of the Baroque era, Antonio Vivaldi’s contributions profoundly impacted music for the violin, ushering in a period of popularity for the instrument.

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, artist, teacher, and a very influential person in the baroque. Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy on March 4th, 1678. He was immediately baptized after his birthday which leads people to believe he was an unhealthy infant or a recipient to other natural causes. Throughout his life, he has composed many pieces such as his numerous amounts of concertos for a variety of different instruments, his operas, and one of his most famous pieces, The Four Season. Even though Vivaldi was a very successful composer and virtuoso he died on the 28th of July in 1741, in poverty with little to no money.

This thesis aims to explore the life of Johann Sebastien Bach (1685-1750), and his contribution to European classical music. Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. To this day, he is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest composers and musicians of all time. Bach is known for his talent in playing the organ, and the extreme complexity of his works using counterpoint, motifs and harmony. His catalogue boasts over a thousand pieces, from cantatas, motets, lute pieces, four part chorales, to chamber music, orchestral works and canons.

In the 1700s, Antonio Vivaldi composed his highly accredited Four Seasons concerto. The autumn movement in this concerto follows the allegro-adagio-allegro pattern. Vivaldi provided sonnets to go along with each movement to explain what the true meanings are. As a group, we felt it was necessary to provide all of our reactions to the piece. This allowed us to interpret what each of the others were visualizing throughout the composition. Some of our opinions may have varied, but overall the general mood of the piece allowed us each to have the same emotions toward the Autumn movement of the Four Seasons.

Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in the town of Venice, Italy. His father was quite the musician and helped his son master the violin and also helped him get find lessons from some the best composers in Italy. Sadly, do to his symptoms that were similar to asthma often causing him to have severe shortness of breath he was unable to master several instruments. At one point in his early life he even became a priest but this was short lived do to his continuing health issues therefore he had to give up his priesthood. “At the age of 25, Antonio Vivaldi was named master of violin at the Ospedale della Pietà (Devout Hospital of Mercy) in Venice” (). This is where he spent in upwards of thirty years teaching his students and only having