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If somebody would ask me to choose my favorite composer, first name that would pop up in my head would be “Antonio Vivaldi”. If I think of appropriate words for Vivaldi, there are no others but “pure genius”. Since the beginning of my career in my local web analytics company, I did not stop listening to Vivaldi’s masterpieces for a moment. And each time I find something new, deep and profound in his music. I studied the life of a great composer in details and found out more about Vivaldi, that somehow was left behind in the most history books that I read.
They say that success is shorter than life. This expression can be used to describe the life of Antonio Vivaldi, He had known windfall of luck, kings and other royalty were his patrons, but he ended his life as a pauper.
It goes without saying that universally everybody knows about his masterpiece “The Four Seasons” - a series of four violin concertos. It is his best known work and a highly popular Baroque music piece. Vivaldi was a not only a baroque music composer, and a famous virtuoso violinist, but also a Venetian priest.
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Posted by katyag on 2008-09-29 20:30:07 | Rating: | Views: 33
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