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	Vivaldi - MSN Encarta
		Vivaldi was born in Venice and trained by his father, a violinist at Saint Mark’s Cathedral.
		From 1713 on, Vivaldi was active as an opera composer and producer in Venice and traveled to Rome, Mantua, and elsewhere to oversee performances of his operas.
		Vivaldi’s sense of instruments produced sound color and musical effects of great beauty, as in the slow movement of the Concerto for Four Violins in B minor from Opus 3.
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	vivaldi.htm
		Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678.
		Antonio trained for the priesthood, was ordained in 1703, and became known as the “red priest” because of his red hair.
		Vivaldi died in 1741 in Vienna and was buried in a pauper’s grave, as he had fallen out of favor later in life as the music world continued toward the Classical period.
	www.marineband.usmc.mil /learning_tools/hall_of_composers/vivaldi.htm (230 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi Encyclopedia Article @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice, then capital of the Republic of Venice.
		Vivaldi's music is innovative, breaking a consolidated tradition in schemes; he gave brightness to the formal and the rhythmic structure of the concerto, repeatedly looking for harmonic contrasts and invented innovative melodies and themes.
		Vivaldi is considered one of the composers who brought Baroque Music (with its typical contrast among heavy sonorities) to evolve into a classical style.
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	Antonio Vivaldi
		Vivaldi was at the forefront of this influence.
		Vivaldi had now become the influence for composers throughout Europe, such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Joachim Quantz, and ironically it is the Venetian elements rather than the Roman ones that most composers emulated.
		Vivaldi was finally settling on this as his favorite form, and he developed the slow movements considerably, drawing them out and complicating them to contrast with the faster outer movements.
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	Antonio Vivaldi
		Vivaldi was trained for the priesthood and ordained in 1703 but soon after his ordination ceased to say Mass.
		It is in the concerto that Vivaldi's chief importance lies.
		Vivaldi was an enterprising orchestrator, writing several concertos for unusual combinations like viola d'amore and lute, or for ensembles including chalumeaux, clarinets, horns and other rarities.
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	Antonio Vivaldi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vivaldi was born in Venice 1678 and died in Vienna 1741.
		Vivaldi was a child of the late Baroque.
		Vivaldi got well known as a teacher and a composer after he had written the violin concert " L'estro armonico from 1711.
	www.geocities.com /Vienna/Strasse/8383/vivaldi.html (379 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi: a detailed informative biography
		Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on March 4th, 1678.
		Vivaldi's relationship with the Ospedale began right after his ordination in 1703, when he was named as violin teacher there.
		Vivaldi's major publisher was Estienne Roger in Amsterdam, perhaps the best-known, and almost certainly the best-organized printer/publisher of the baroque era.
	www.baroquemusic.org /bqxvivaldi.html (1714 words)

	Story of Antonio Vivaldi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antonio Vivaldi was born on March 4, 1678 in Venice.
		Giovanni Vivaldi taught him how to play the violin, and by the time he was eleven years old Antonio was good enough to stand in for his father at the San Marco.
		Vivaldi was buried from St Stephen’s in Vienna, but because he was so poor, only a few of the cathedral’s big bells were rung for him.
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	Lesson Tutor: Classical Composer Biography : Antonio Vivaldi
		Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, and was the son of a barber who turned violinist to play in an orchestra.
		Vivaldi wrote a number of his operas for her - although she was not exceptionally talented - and the pair travelled around Europe together.
		For many years Vivaldi's work was largely forgotten, but in the mid 20th century the discovery of a large number of manuscripts, combined with the revival of interest in the Baroque period, produced a Vivaldi renaissance.
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	HOASM: Antonio Vivaldi
		From 1693 until he was ordained in 1703, Vivaldi prepared for the priesthood at S. Geminiano and S. Giovanni in Oleo; he was called "il prete rosso" (the red priest) because of his red hair.
		Vivaldi resumed his post at the Piet‡ in 1711, and in 1716 was appointed to the more prestigious position of maestro de' concerti.
		Vivaldi was most influential as a composer of instrumental music, particularly concertos, in which his regular use of ritornello form in the fast movements and of a three-movement plan were influential.
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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Vivaldi Biography
		Antonio was the eldest of the children born to Giovanni Vivaldi - a barber before he became a violinist - and Camillo Calichio, a tailor's daughter.
		Vivaldi continued to travel widely and was given numerous honorary titles while continuing to be active in the ever dramatic world of opera as composer and impresario.
		Vivaldi's less than elegant attempts to extract full payment and his relationship with Anna along with his refusal to say Mass, resulted in his being barred from Ferrara, which was a papal domain.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/vivaldi_bio.html (1402 words)

	Vivaldi, Antonio - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vivaldi received his early training from his father, a violinist at St. Mark's, Venice, and later studied with Giovanni Legrenzi.
		Ordained a priest in 1703, Vivaldi spent most of his life after 1709 in Venice, teaching and playing the violin and writing music for the Pietà, one of Venice's four music conservatories for orphaned girls.
		Vivaldi's brilliant allegros and impassioned slow movements were greatly admired by Bach, who arranged 10 of the solo concertos for other instruments.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/v/vivaldi.asp (254 words)

	Internet Public Library: Music History 102
		Later composers of the period such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Antonio Vivaldi transformed this genre into the solo concerto, in which the solo instrument is of equal importance as the string orchestra.
		Vivaldi's most famous compositions are the concertos for one or more solo violins and string orchestra, although he composed a great deal of music in other genres, including cantatas, operas, trio sonatas and others.
		Vivaldi followed the usual pattern of the era in his concertos by framing a melodious or dramatic slow second movement with fast and lively first and third movements.
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	Notes on the Place Where Antonio Vivaldi Lived and Died (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antonio Vivaldi" (The music is by the late Don Antonio Vivaldi.) From this we understand that Vivaldi's name was well known in Vienna and that his death had been recognized.
		The entries are: a) Protocol of the Deceased: "The Reverend Antonius Vivaldi, parish priest, (died) in the Satlerisch Haus near the Kärntner Tor by internal burning.
		Vivaldi's funeral was held in a nearby cemetery called "Spitaller Gottesacker," referring to the fact that this cemetery also contained executed criminals.
	www.austria.org /jul95/info/vivaldi.htm (1301 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vivaldi was born March 4, 1678, in Venice, and was trained by his father, a violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral.
		From 1713 on, Vivaldi was also active as an opera composer and producer in Venice and traveled to Rome, Mantua, and elsewhere to oversee performances of his operas.
		Vivaldi was the first composer who consistently used the ritornello form that became standard for the fast movements of concertos.
	www.sangha.net /messengers/Vivaldi.htm (397 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi Biography
		Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) was an Italian violinist and composer whose concertos were widely known and influential throughout Europe.
		The elder Vivaldi was a well-respected violinist, employed at the church of St. Mark's.
		In a Vivaldi concerto, the orchestra is essentially a string orchestra, with one or two harpsichords or organs to play the thorough-bass.
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	Vivaldi, Antonio: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vivaldi composed more that 40 operas, 3 oratorios, numerous secular cantatas, Vespers, hundreds of concerti grossi and solo concerti and chamber music.
		Vivaldi's tendency to confuse novelty of technique with musical content was more than offset by his masterful incorporation of formal elements into the evolving concerto form.
		Johann Sebastian arranged Vivaldi concerti for the organ, several for the clavier, and one for four clavier and string quartet.
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	Antonio Vivaldi biography - 8notes.com
		Not long after, in 1704, he was given a dispensation from celebrating the Holy Mass because of his ill-health (he apparently suffered from asthma), and became a violin teacher at an orphanage for girls called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà in Venice.
		Despite his saintly status, he is supposed to have had many love affairs, one of which was with the singer Anna Giraud, with whom he was suspected of using materials from old Venetian operas that he only slightly adapted to the vocal capabilities of his mistress.
		Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in G minor, RV 531 - for Two Cellos and Piano Piano reduction by Ghendini G.f, composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), edited by Janos Starker.
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	Antonio Vivaldi and the Women of the Pietà (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antonio Vivaldi was born in approximately 1678 in Venice to Giovanni and Camilla Vivaldi.
		Vivaldi's early years, as the violin master of the Pietà, were spent composing and publishing instrumental works, primarily, and some vocal pieces for the orphans.
		Vivaldi was a violin virtuoso; Warbucks was a tap-dance virtuoso.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /htdocs/Blair/Courses/MUSL243/bacvivwb.htm (3913 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) - Find A Grave Memorial
		Vivaldi's music is typically popular in spirit, warm and inviting in its melody, and often imaginative in its scoring.
		Vivaldi's priesthood did not interfere with his love life, especially his affair with singer Anna Giraud, a pupil who travelled with him throughout Italy; the two were once barred from entering the city of Ferrara because it was feared their presence would create a scandal.
		Vivaldi's music was completely forgotten until 1939, when Alfredo Casella, an Italian composer-conductor, launched a week-long festival featuring "The Four Seasons." Not everyone was thrilled with the revival.
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	Vivaldi, Antonio (1678 - 1741) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Italian composer and violinist Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678 and after his ordination in 1703 embarked on an intermittent career in the service of the Ospedale della Pietà, an institution for the education of orphan, illegitimate or indigent girls, an establishment with a formidable musical reputation.
		As a composer Vivaldi was prolific, with some 500 concertos to his credit, in addition to a quantity of works for the church and for the theatre.
		Vivaldi wrote a number of sonatas and trio sonatas, many of them designed for one or two violins and basso continuo.
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	Antonio Vivaldi - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Vivaldi died in 1741; he had lost his fame and fortune and like Mozart was buried in an anonymous pauper's grave.
		Vivaldi's style is one of sheer energy and vitality, yet he has a cantable side to him.
		Vivaldi is known chiefly as a composer of concerto.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/vivaldi (3411 words)

	HyperMusic -- History of Classical Music: Vivaldi
		Vivaldi often traveled to Prague, Vienna, and Amsterdam to conduct his works as well as to oversee the printing of his scores.
		Antonio Vivaldi learned his music from his father because his dad was a professional violinist.
		Vivaldi was trained for the priesthood and ordained in 1703 but soon after his ordination ceased to perform mass.
	www.hypermusic.ca /comp/vivaldi.html (215 words)

	Antonio Vivaldi MP3 Downloads - Free Antonio Vivaldi MP3 — Antonio Vivaldi Music — EZ-Tracks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Antonio Vivaldi, the Italian composer most recognized for his mastery in Baroque music was a famous violinist as well as a priest.
		Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was born in the city of Venice, Ital Continued...
		Vivaldi’s compositions soon became outdated due to changing musical tastes, leading him to live the remainder of his life in poverty.
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	Biography of Antonio Vivaldi - PianoParadise
		Antonio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678, Venice - July 28, 1741, Vienna), nicknamed Il Prete Rosso, was an Italian priest and music composer.
		Composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), arranged by Alexander Gluklikh.
		Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto In D Major Composed by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741), arranged by Mario Abril.
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	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Vivaldi began serving the Ospedale in 1703, soon after being ordained a priest, and he held various positions there almost all his life.
		Although Vivaldi wrote a great deal of music in other genres, including more than fifty operas, it is his concertos that have granted him a lasting place in musical history.
		Vivaldi uses his ingenuity to take the mundane sounds of daily life (the barking of a dog, the buzzing of flies), along with more dramatic sounds (a violent spring storm), and portray them in purely musical language that stands on its own merit.
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