But if we look at Vivaldi’s best-known works we have to admit that they’re world class.
There’s always the temptation to think that someone with such prodigious output must be producing a lot of dreck, or maybe the same basic stuff over and over again.
If he finished one novel before his allotted time was up that morning he just started a new one. Maybe a better alter ego for Vivaldi is Anthony Trollope, the prolific 19th-century novelist who got up every morning to write for a certain amount of time before he headed off to his day job as head of the British postal system. I always wonder about people like that who can produce a seemingly never-ending stream of creative work as if the material just wells up inside of them and demands to be recorded. Obviously the man was the Stephen King of Baroque music. Hundreds of sacred works, including many for chorus and orchestra. He’s probably telling the truth! A trove of his previously-unknown compositions was unearthed in 1926 that contained 300 concertos, 19 operas and over 100 vocal-instrumental works.ģ. 46 operas that we can catalog, although in a letter Vivaldi claimed to have written 94 of them. But my goodness-talk about the tip of the iceberg! Here’s what we think he produced during his rather short lifetime:Ģ. His most famous work is indeed a set of violin concertos called The Four Seasons. (Although of course you can’t see his real hair in the picture.) We’ll dispose of #3 first, as that’s the easiest to address: the nickname is a reference to Vivaldi’s hair color, and he was ordained as a priest in the Roman Catholic church at age 25, so that’s that. wrote lots of other stuff, behaving kind of like a one-man composition factory.ģ. Here’s what you may already know about Antonio Vivaldi:Ģ.
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