Antonio Lucio Vivaldi Research Paper

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy on March 4th, 1678. He was an Italian composer, violinist, teacher, and cleric during the Baroque Era. His father Giovanni Battista Vivaldi was a professional violinist who taught him to play the violin as well. Through the help of his father, he met musicians and composers at the time. At his fifteen years old he began to studying to become a priest. As a result of his red hair he was better known as the “the Red Priest.” At the age of 25 years old he was named as the masted of violin at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, where he taught at an orphanage for girls, and wrote a lot of music for the girls to play. However,Vivaldi’s health problems as asthmatic bronchitis kept Antonio Vivaldi
from saying Mass. So after that he spend his time writing and teaching music. During 1717 to 1721 he wrote his masterpiece The Four Seasons. Vivaldi also wrote one of this cantatas ( piece of music for voices with instrumental accompaniment), specifically for the King Louis XV, Gloria e Imeneo. In all, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi died at the age of 63 in Vienna on July 28th 1741, where he wrote over 500 concertos operas, church music and many other compositions.