ExclusiveVivaldi: Concerto a 4 Madrigalesco in d, RV129

【Classical music and nature 古典音樂小站】Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto a 4 Madrigalesco in d, RV129. This beautiful piece was played by The Milan Baroque Soloists. It has Creative Commons license (Public Domain Mark 1.0 Universal) and is provided through www.musopen.org.

Vivaldi, Antonio Lucio: Born on 4 March 1678 in Venice, Italy. Died on 27/28 July 1741 in Vienna. He was a priest, composer, violinist and impresario.

Due to his poor health, he was originally intended for the priesthood, but he rarely practised it (he was even able to obtain an exemption from reading the mass from around 1712) and soon after his ordination (1703) embarked on a career in music. His training was probably provided by his father (violin) or musicians in his hometown (G. Legrenzi?) whose identity is not known.

In 1703, Vivaldi became a music teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà, one of the conservatories in the city, but probably succeeded F. Gasparini as ‘maestro de’ concerti’ as early as 1707/08. Although Vivaldi made his first two works (trio sonatas and violin sonatas, published in Amsterdam from op. 3 onwards) and the concerts at the Pietà known far beyond the borders of Venice, he turned to opera from around 1713, which was his main focus almost until the end of his life, along with the concert.

From 1711, Vivaldi was involved in the Impresa of the Teatro Sant'Angelo, but also wrote for other Venetian opera houses and numerous stages throughout Italy (Rome, Mantua, Florence, Verona, Livorno, Milan, etc.). Numerous prominent visitors are documented from 1709 (Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel, Johann Georg Pisendel, Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway, Daniel Gottlob Treu, etc.), and J. S. Bach arranged one of his concerts for organ.

Around 1719/20, Vivaldi was employed for three years as the "Maestro di Cappella di S. A. il Sig. Principe Filippo Langravio d'Hassia-Darmestat‘. It is not known for certain what the nature of the relationship was between Vivaldi and Francis Stephen of Lorraine (Charles Francis I of Hungary), referred to in the libretto of the opera L'Adelaide of 1735 as his ’maestro di capella di S. A. il duca di Lorena". The journey ‘in Germany’ in 1729/30 probably led Vivaldi to Prague, where he met Anton Count Sporck, who had five Vivaldi operas performed in his theatre by A. Denzio's troupe between 1726 and 1732.

In 1728, Vivaldi met with Charles VI, to whom he is said to have presented a copy of his op. 9 (La Cetra) dedicated to the emperor. Since the situation for Vivaldi in Venice deteriorated rapidly towards the end of the 1730s (problems with the management of the Pietà, changes in musical style, disagreements at the theatre), Vivaldi to have pinned his hopes on a position in the courtly sphere by travelling to Vienna in 1740, which (also due to the death of Charles VI and the resulting new situation at court) did not materialise.

Vivaldi set new standards, especially with his concertos and sonatas, which were printed in such numbers as to be almost unbelievable at the time and were studied in detail by leading musicians of the time. He was one of the most internationally respected musical personalities of the first half of the 18th century. Nevertheless, his music was forgotten soon after his death and was rediscovered by chance (F. Kreisler played a baroque-style sonata he composed himself under the name of Vivaldi in 1906, which soon became a highly popular piece and attracted the interest of the later Vivaldi specialist Marc Pincherle). Vivaldis life is the subject of the “Baroque Opera” The Fifth Season (lyrics: Angelika Messner), composed by Ch. Kolonovits, which premiered at the Volksoper Vienna on 3 June 2017. source: musiklexikon.ac.at

The landscape was filmed by Simone Schlegel and the video was edited by Wenjing Ma.





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