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The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in Mantua .
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi [n 2] (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. [4] Along with Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel, Vivaldi ranks amongst the greatest Baroque composers and his influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.
La cetra (Vivaldi) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione; Concerto alla rustica; Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531; Concerto for Two Trumpets (Vivaldi) Concerto in C major, RV 558; Concerto in C major, RV 559
The Concerto alla rustica, unlike some other of Vivaldi's concertos, did not include a descriptive programme. [2] It was composed some time between mid-1720 and 1730, during which time Vivaldi was working on his Contest Between Harmony and Invention, Op. 8—the work from which his best-known set of compositions, The Four Seasons, derives.
Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) is a set of twelve concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi and published in 1725 as Op. 8. All are for violin solo, strings and basso continuo. The first four, which date back to 1718–23, are called The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni).
This is a complete list of operas by Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741). He claimed to have composed 94 operas, but fewer than 50 titles have been identified, of which the scores of only 20 or so survive, wholly or in part.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), wrote over 600 concerti, including The Four Seasons; Giovanni Buonaventura Viviani (1638 – c. 1693) Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana (1590–1662) Roman Vlad (1919–2013), Italian composer, pianist, and musicologist of Romanian birth
English: Concerto No. 1 in E major, Op. 8, RV 269, "La primavera" (Spring) — Movement 1: Allegro from The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi Live, Unedited performance — 3m:35.280s Wiedemann Recital Hall, Wichita State University