Vivaldi was born in 1678 in Venice, then the capital of the Venetian Republic.
It wasn’t until after WWII that his works resurfaced and the orchestral world would start to appreciate Vivaldi – and especially his best-known piece, The Four Seasons – again. His compositions were performed rarely throughout the subsequent Classical and Romantic periods. The hundreds of pieces he wrote, which included concertos, operas, sonatas and sacred works, fell into obscurity after the end of the Baroque period.
The music of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi resonates with poetry, harmony and emotion in performances today just as it first did nearly 300 years ago. APO's Ben Gemmell looks at the life of the composer of some of the most performed pieces in the modern orchestral repertoire.
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