Between 17 Vivaldi was not attached to the Ospedale. Until 1709, Vivaldi's appointment was renewed every year and again after 1711. Many of Vivaldi's concerti were indeed exercises which he would play with his many talented pupils.Īntonio Vivaldi's relationship with the Ospedale began right after his ordination in 1703, when he was named as violin teacher there. The Ospedale was thus well endowed by the 'anonymous' fathers its furnishings bordered on the opulent, the young ladies were well looked-after, and the musical standards among the highest in Venice. Often termed an 'orphanage', this Ospedale was in fact a home for the female offspring of noblemen and their numerous dalliances with their mistresses. Vivaldi was employed for most of his working life by the Ospedale della Pietà. 3 for example, he also wrote many works which sound like five-finger exercises for students. Though he wrote many fine and memorable concertos, such as the Four Seasons and the Op. In any event he had become a priest against his own will, perhaps because in his day training for the priesthood was often the only possible way for a poor family to obtain free schooling. It is also possible that Vivaldi was simulating illness - there is a story that he sometimes left the altar in order to quickly jot down a musical idea in the sacristy. Though ordained a priest in 1703, according to his own account, within a year of being ordained Antonio Vivaldi no longer wished to celebrate mass because of physical complaints ('tightness of the chest') which pointed to angina pectoris, asthmatic bronchitis, or a nervous disorder. The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concerti, is his best-known work and a highly popular Baroque piece. Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, nicknamed il Prete Rosso ('The Red Priest'), was a Venetian priest and Baroque music composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice.

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