The Four Seasons is a group of four violin concertos each of which gives musical expression to the seasons of the year, spring, summer, autumn and winter. It should be noted that this is just one part of a larger masterwork by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.
Sam to the borduns in Chapter 3 and now, these performances in E major.
Works by Vivaldi that had been lost were discovered over many years, one as recently as 2006.Vivaldi’s Spring is a favorite at Prodigies. A desire to get to the source of those transcriptions contributed to the effort to explore Vivaldi’s music in detail. Scholars who subsequently combed through Bach’s music discovered his transcriptions of concertos by Vivaldi. Interest in Bach’s music was revived 70 years after his death by Felix Mendelssohn. Vivaldi’s music, like that of many of his contemporaries including Bach, was either forgotten or lost for many decades as new styles of music came into vogue in the late 18th century. It was during Bach’s time in Weimar (1709-1717) that he transcribed many of Vivaldi’s works, creating a series of concertos labeled “after Vivaldi.” Bach shared the interest among German composers in the latest music from Venice and, although his travels were severely limited, he had access to manuscripts. Handel went to study and work in Venice from 1706 to 1710 and mastered the Italian style. Vivaldi’s music was quite popular in his day and the Italian style based in Venice was studied by composers throughout Europe. His first collection of concertos, opus 3, known as “L’estro Armonico” (the “harmonic spirit” or “harmonic inspiration”) is dated 1712 and is said to be the catalyst for Vivaldi’s fame spreading throughout Europe.
But Vivaldi composed more than 500 concertos. Most people are familiar with the concertos of Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) known as The Four Seasons written in 1723. 3 (L’estro Armonico) Engraving by François Morellon la Cave (1725)
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