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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 - 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. 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. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and programmatic music.
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00:01 - Winter - Violin Concerto in F minor, Op. 8, No. 4, RV. 297
08:01 - Spring - Violin Concerto in E major, Op. 8, No. 1, RV. 269
16:57 - Summer - Violin Concerto in G minor, Op. 8, No. 2, RV. 315
25:58 - Autumn - Violin Concerto in F major, Op. 8, No. 3, RV. 293
35:32 - Summer - 3. Movement Presto RV 315
38:27 - Summer - Concerto in G minor Op. 8, No. 2 RV. 315 - Arranged for Solo Piano
47:32 - Winter - Violin Concerto in F minor Op. 8 No. 4 RV. 297 - Arranged for Solo Piano
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. They were published in 1725 in Amsterdam, together with eight additional concerti, as Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention).
The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716-1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718.
They were a revolution in musical conception: Vivaldi represented flowing creeks, singing birds (of different species, each specifically characterized), a shepherd and his barking dog, buzzing flies, storms, drunken dancers, hunting parties from both the hunters' and the prey's point of view, frozen landscapes, and warm winter fires.
An anonymous portrait in oils in the Museo Internazionale e Biblioteca della Musica di Bologna is generally believed to be of Vivaldi and may be linked to the Morellon La Cave engraving, which appears to be a modified mirror reflection of it.
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