![]() ![]() Even our historical assessment of Vivaldi contains contradictions: it is often said that his music went ignored for two centuries, but he dominated European classical music at his peak and was later a primary influence on J.S. In his personal life, he was accused of being both a celibate eunuch and a promiscuous sleazeball, his music of being both too trite and too nontraditional. He was a priest who couldn’t perform Mass, a traveler who couldn’t walk to the grocer on his own, a correspondent of nine princes who was buried in a pauper’s grave. Outside of the large sums of money (which dried up soon enough), there’s not much truth to any of that. If you see him as the archetypal composer of his era, you might imagine a relatively healthy, sheltered aristocrat who was paid large sums of money to create dinner-party entertainment for the idle rich. ![]() His compositions are immortal and ubiquitous if you can hear music, you’ve heard his work.īut he isn’t very well known as a person, so it’s understandable that we might get an unrealistic impression of who he was. In that respect, it could be said that he invented the radio single (albeit several centuries before the invention of radio). He always worked quickly, and most of his pieces-unusual for the genre-were both short and memorable. Traveling with an entourage that nearly always included his elderly father and several young women, he oversaw the performance of operas and instrumental pieces that have come to define classical music as we now know it. In early 18th century Venice there lived a self-assured red-haired priest named Antonio Lucio Vivaldi.
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