The main character, Arsilda, falls in love with another woman, Lisea, who is pretending to be a man. Vivaldi got the censor to accept the opera the following year, and it was a resounding success. The most important were two oratorios.
Moyses Deus Pharaonis , RV is lost. The second, Juditha triumphans RV , celebrates the victory of the Republic of Venice against the Turks and the recapture of the island of Corfu. Composed in , it is one of his sacred masterpieces. The latter was so popular that it performed two years later, re-edited and retitled Artabano re dei Parti RV , now lost. It was also performed in Prague in In the following years, Vivaldi wrote several operas that were performed all over Italy.
His progressive operatic style caused him some trouble with more conservative musicians, like Benedetto Marcello, a magistrate and amateur musician who wrote a pamphlet denouncing him and his operas.
The pamphlet, Il teatro alla moda , attacks Vivaldi without mentioning him directly. Although Vivaldi may have exaggerated, in his dual role of composer and impresario it is plausible that he may either have written or been responsible for the production of as many as ninety-four operas during a career which by then had spanned almost twenty-five years.
While Vivaldi certainly composed many operas in his time, he never reached the prominence of other great composers like Alessandro Scarlatti, Johann Adolph Hasse, Leonardo Leo, and Baldassare Galuppi, as evidenced by his inability to keep a production running for any extended period of time in any major opera house. His most successful operas were La costanza trionfante and Farnace which garnered six revivals each.
During this period Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons , four violin concertos depicting scenes appropriate for each season. The inspiration for the concertos was probably the countryside around Mantua. Each concerto is associated with a sonnet, possibly by Vivaldi, describing the scenes depicted in the music. At the height of his career, Vivaldi received commissions from European nobility and royalty.
In , Vivaldi met the emperor while the emperor was visiting Trieste to oversee the construction of a new port. Charles admired the music of the Red Priest so much that he is said to have spoken more with the composer during their one meeting than he spoke to his ministers in over two years.
He gave Vivaldi the title of knight, a gold medal and an invitation to Vienna. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on the 4 March, in the capital city of Venice. Some historians believe that his mother dedicated him to priesthood because an earthquake hit the city the very same day he was born.
Vivaldi was introduced to music by his own family. He would accompany his father to tours and concerts, thus he drew great inspiration from him. Little is known about how Vivaldi began his formal training in composition. Vivaldi was ordained as a priest on While his violin practice flourished, a chronic shortness of breath barred him from mastering wind instruments. Vivaldi sought religious training as well as musical instruction.
At the age of 15, he began studying to become a priest. He was ordained in Health problems prevented him from delivering mass and drove him to abandon the priesthood shortly after his ordination. He composed most of his major works in this position over three decades. The Ospedale was an institution where orphans received instruction -- the boys in trades and the girls in music.
The most talented musicians joined an orchestra that played Vivaldi's compositions, including religious choral music. Under Vivaldi's leadership, the orchestra gained international attention.
In , he was promoted to music director. In addition to his choral music and concerti, Vivaldi had begun regularly writing opera scores by ; about 50 of these scores remain. Listen to the best of Vivaldi on Apple Music and Spotify and scroll down to explore our selection of the 10 best Vivaldi works of all time.
The four violin concertos broke new ground with their programmatic depiction of the changing seasons and their technical innovations. Nulla In Mundo Pax Sincera Sublime motet of three arias and interlinking recitatives for solo soprano and string orchestra composed in It was one of the few solo works of the early s to feature brass instruments. This version, however, is different with the orchestra pared down to single instruments and the solo part played stunningly well by this wonderful young Dutch violinist.
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