Antonio Lucio Vivaldi: Italian Kinetist During The Baroque Period

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Deannine Cerbone
Professor David Kellogg
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9 April 2015
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Antonio Lucio Vivaldi is well-known as an Italian composer and violinist during the Baroque period. In fact he’s considered the greatest master of Italian baroque, especially in the concerto grosso and violin music. Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy March of 1678, he lived to the age of 63 and died July of 1741 in Vienna, Austria. Vivaldi’s father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi, was a barber and professional violinist, he began to teach Antonio at a very young age, he ultimately became a virtuoso violinist. Antonio and his father performed together often and during this time Antonio was exposed to many talented musicians and composers in Venice (Bio. A& E Television Networks, 2015). He tried to play wind instruments, however, he was plagued by a type of bronchial dilation which historians believe was asthma, this inhibited him to successfully learn to play the wind instruments. At age 15, Antonio began to study for the priesthood, yet after his ordination in 1703 into the priesthood, in which he was known as “the Red Priest” (Bio. A & E Television Networks, 2015), he put blame to the “asthma” that he could not give Mass due to his short wind therefore he withdrew himself. He returned to music and accepted “his first position as maestro di violin at the Pio Ospedale della Pieta’, one of four Venetian …show more content…

Vivaldi worked with the Pieta’ on and off throughout his “career: as a violin master (1703-09; 1711-15), director of instrumental music (1716-17; 1735-38), and paid

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