The music brings images of seasonal poems to ... to summer storms and birds happily singing the arrival of spring. Vivaldi published a sonnet to accompany each of the seasons (although there ...

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MYLEENE KLASS:But this music can take you right through the year, because now I can hear the sound of the spring sun bursting ... an Italian man called Antonio Vivaldi. He had a head that was ...

Shortly after his appointment, the orphans began to gain appreciation and esteem abroad, too; Vivaldi wrote for them many concertos and cantatas, sacred music and any other works the orphanage ...

Even in the mid-20th century, Vivaldi’s reputation as a composer was so small that not even the exact date of his birth or the place and date of his death had been established; his music was very ...