Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice,Italy to Camilla Calicho and Giovanni Battista.His father, Giovanni Battista was a full-time violinist at St. Mark’s under the surname Rossi.When Antonio was born, he was baptized by a midwife.He was officially baptized two months later at a church.
Antonio Vivaldi entered the priesthood when he was fifteen years old and was ordained when he was twenty five years old.Antonio became known as the Red Priest due to his red hair.During Antonio learned to play the violin with his father.Within a year of his ordination, Antonio no longer wished to celebrate mass because he had asthma.Antonio would leave the alter just to jot down musicial ideas.It is said that the only reason Antonio joined the preisthood is so he could get free schooling.
In December of 1703, Antonio became known as Master Of The Violin at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà also known as The Devout Hospital of Mercy in Venice.
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All eleven singing parts were performed by girls of the Ospedale, both for the female and male characters. Many of the arias included parts of solo instruments that showed the girl’s talents, recorders, oboes, clarinets, viola d'amore, and mandolins. Also in 1716, Vivaldi wrote and produced two more operas, L'incoronazione DI Dario and La Costanza trionfante degli amori e degli odi. His modern style ended up not being accepted by other musicians, like Benedetto Marcello. Marcello was a musician and wrote a pamphlet called Il teatro alla moda against Vivaldi and the modern style of opera. The cover of it had a caricature of Vivaldi playing the
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