Super antonio vivaldi biography book

H. C. Robbins LandonVivaldi : Voice of the Baroque
University Of Chicago Press, 1996; ISBN 0226468429; 208 pages
Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one.

Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons , and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently.

He was educated as a priest, but poor health and probably a lack of interest in the calling encouraged him to follow another path in life.

Hidden Harmonies: The Secret Life of Antonio Vivaldi by Romijn.

Paperback.

She begins sneaking out of her family's palazzo under the cover of night to take violin lessons from violinist and composer Antonio Vivaldi.

Following Mario Rinaldi's.

Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English. Landon rediscovers the composer in this accessible and musically informed biography while presenting documentation of the musician's life discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s.

This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters, thoroughly evoking the style of the time and revealing some of the more personal aspects of Vivaldi's life. "Belongs on the shelf of every seri