Antonio Vivaldi : The Most Influential Italian Composer

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, outstanding composer of “The Four Seasons” and more specifically Gloria in Excelsis Deo, was born March the 4th 1678 and died July 28th 1741. Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy: a city in northeastern Italy sited on a group of one hundred seventeen small islands separated by canals and linked by bridges. He died in Veinna, Austria, the capital and largest city of Austria, and one of the nine states of Austria, Vienna is also Austria 's primary city.

Antonio Vivaldi is a famous Italian baroque composer, known by most Suzuki violin students who study his concertos or by audiences everywhere who have heard and love his composition of the Four Seasons.  Having grown up as students of the Suzuki Violin Method, we recognize this composer and have experience performing his pieces.  In addition to his many concertos written for solo violin, Vivaldi composed many concertos intended to be performed by two solo violins, accompanied by a small orchestra.  Because we are both violinists, we chose to analyze the second movement of Vivaldi’s Concerto for Two Violins in A minor, RV 522, included in his L’Estro Armonico works.

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According to the classification system of Hornbostel and Sachs, they are classified as ‘trumpets with finger-holes’. They flourished mainly in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, but began a decline in popularity from the second half of the seventeenth; from 1700 onwards their use fell off dramatically, even though in some parts of Europe they persisted until the early 1800s. Their modern revival dates only from the second half of the twentieth century;

A great interest in hearing only instrumental music tell the story without text arise. The development of the concerto grosso which is a small unit of soloists against a full orchestra (Wright, 7-4) brought about one of the most popular and recognized concerto pieces, Vivaldi’s Violin Concerto in E Major (the “Spring). As one of

Dr. John Marchiando serves as the Assistant Professor of Trumpet at the University of New Mexico where I completed by Master’s degree, as well as serving as principal trumpet of the New Mexico PhilharmonicIn the process of attended the University of New Mexico Dr. Marchiando was a bit of an unknown to me at the time; I was unfamiliar with most of his work as a teacher

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, or Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart as he was more commonly known, is one of the most influential composers to ever live. His incredible success during the Classical Period has brought him lots of attention from everyone from classical music listeners to classical music scholars and performers.

As time goes on, the trumpet has and will continue to develop as the demands and needs of composers continue to

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, artist, teacher, and a very influential person in the baroque. Vivaldi was born in Venice, Italy on March 4th, 1678. He was immediately baptized after his birthday which leads people to believe he was an unhealthy infant or a recipient to other natural causes. Throughout his life, he has composed many pieces such as his numerous amounts of concertos for a variety of different instruments, his operas, and one of his most famous pieces, The Four Season. Even though Vivaldi was a very successful composer and virtuoso he died on the 28th of July in 1741, in poverty with little to no money.

In measures 27-30, saxophone melody played by two main groups of instruments are accompanied by a group of dynamic and brass polished piano rhythms (Syncopation) to create colorful the horn playing Counter melody composed.

Something that you may not know about Antonio is that at age 15 he studied to be a priest. After 10 years of studying the lord he was officially ordained. A fun fact about Vivaldi is that they actually called him “il Prete Rosso” which means “The Red Priest”. The other priests called him this due to his red hair. Sadly, his ten years of studying didn’t pay off because he had to end his priesthood because of unknown medical issues. After he ended his priesthood Vivaldi got bored often so so decided to take the violin more serious. In fact he took it so seriously that he actually taught it at Ospedale Della Pieta which was an orphanage. Much like his priesthood this job was short-lived. In less than a year Antonio was voted out of his job six to seven. After this he decided to attend a Festival with his father where they played the famous 4-Seasons concerto. This event inspired him to write

Vivaldi's musical contribution to the development of music during his timeline were his operas that he wrote. He wrote the operas for Venice but they were performed through Italy. Vivaldi's concertos were very dramatic the way he performed

To start things off I will be making the cornet fuse with the trumpet since they are basically the same genre of instrument so it will be easier since most people just call cornets a version of trumpets. Also that being said all trumpets will be fused in this paper to cover all the grounds if needed as in cornets, bass trumpet, or even the piccolo trumpet if it is required. With this in mind each topic discussed will most likely focus on only one instrument to be used to have examples against the trumpet with either very close calls or obvious choices. Now with that settled we can get to the meat and potatoes of this essay, the discussions.

Vivaldi's “winter” one of the amazing parts to Vivaldi's work of art known as Four Seasons does an outstanding job showing the poetry through the music. He starts off from the very beginning of the piece with teeth chattering. If you were to take a look at the poem he is referring to the very first line is “Frozen and trembling among the chilly snow”. Vivaldi demonstrates these actions by using fierce, fast, and high pitched sounds all throughout the piece. He then continues to demonstrate the second line around the one minute and thirty second mark by using a violin to demonstrate the “Horrid Winds’ (line 2 Stanza 1).

The trumpet is an important component of the brass family, however it is in a catorgory called aerophones. The definition of aerophone is a wind instrument. The trumpet dates as far back as 1500 B.C. and was primitively utilized as a military signals and civilian signals as warnings (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Trumpets played a preeminent role in numerous countries throughout history. Nearly everyone has in one way or another observed an individual blowing into a sea shell or an animal horn. This in my point of view was the evolution of the trumpet. At one time, trumpets were constructed out of silver or bronze and practically all trumpets were valueless. For instances, trumpets were restricted in the notes that were playable on them, due to the fact they did not have