Antonio Vivaldi: his music "rediscovered"

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[SunkenCiv]

In the autumn of 1926 a boarding school in Piedmont run by Salesian Fathers discovered in their archives a large amount of old volumes which the administrators... The matter was turned over to Dr. Alberto Gentili, professor of music history at Turin University. He asked for a list and suggested that the material be sent to Turin so that he could inspect it carefully. The Salesians obliged and several crates arrived. Dr. Gentili immediately went to work examining the contents. On opening the first crate he found before him volume upon volume of Vivaldi autographs...

Proceeding with the utmost secrecy, Dr. Gentili went begging and finally succeeded in finding a public-spirited Turinese who would agree to purchase the collection and donate it to the Turin Library in memory of his deceased infant boy...

Studying the individual volumes carefully, Dr. Gentili made a somewhat disturbing discovery. The last pages of some volumes failed to show the conclusion of the composition and a logical continuation could not be found in other volumes... Further investigation revealed that the collection had been assembled by the Genoese Count Giacomo Durazzo (1717-1794), Austrian Ambassador in Venice and active patron of Gluck... Dr. Gentili was forced once more to go begging-bowl in hand, searching for a willing sponsor. Finally he made contact with a Turinese industrialist who had lost a small child and provided the necessary sum for the purchase of the manuscript, donating the collection to the Turin Library in the name of his son...

The establishment of the Turin Collections led to the Vivaldi renaissance, marked by the Vivaldi week celebrated in Siena in September, 1939 and the projected issuance of the Complete Works of the great Venetian master.

[GnuThere]

I don’t watch much PBS - I guess it was on last fall and I didn’t know it, so I set my DVR in case they rerun it, although it’s probably all online.
Scott Yoo seems pretty cool.

[Mariner]

I never thought of Vivaldi as Baroque.

He has a sound that is of the Classical or Romantic era. Granted, on the lighter side of those when one considers the German masters.

But clearly not a regimented as Baroque.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks!

[long pause]

Ooh, I see what you mean. Hey, someone had to be first. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... I’m a huge fan of Spike Jones (and have been since childhood) but I don’t quote him. :^) Stereo Review was a great magazine for people who didn’t own ears. :^D

[DoubleNickle]

Love me some Vivaldi! Here’s a different take on his Summer Presto:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIGfO2Dgc9Y

Not to leave out the Ludwig fans, here’s a version of his Moonlight Sonata:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6rBK0BqL2w

[glasseye]

Vivaldi and Mozart are my favorites.
So much energy.

[SunkenCiv]

Hmmm... one of the related vids to, uh, something I’d been listening to, is a symphonic version of Led Zep’s “Kashmir”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgvdZsxc8fM

Oh, too short. Here’s another version that may tackle the whole thing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsD8f-N8gzg

[real saxophonist]

I’m a baroque musician. I don’t have any money.

[real saxophonist]

I never really cared for him either. Had to get familiar enough to pass Music History, and immediately cleared that out to make room for more important stuff.

Most people who say they are a fan of Vivaldi only know The Four Seasons, and of that, they only know Spring.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! I’m going to be enjoying the links in here for the rest of the day.

[EvilCapitalist]

Have you ever heard of this artist? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVUpKIFHqZk&list=LLV0sOy5UQsE_mH2QrY2N5Xg&index=2

[SunkenCiv]

for later:

http://www.google.com/search?q=jazz+vivaldi&tbm=vid

[Dacula]

Same here.

Thanks! I’m going to be enjoying the links in here for the rest of the day.

[Dacula]

Same here.

Thanks! I’m going to be enjoying the links in here for the rest of the day.

[SunkenCiv]

Now Hear This: Scarlatti Man Out of Time

Leo Kottke - The Scarlatti Rip-Off

[SunkenCiv]

Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Italian Painter, c.1527 - Milan (precursor to all the major art movements of the 20th cenntury, including those poker-playing dogs).

The Four Seasons

[SunkenCiv]

a bunch of us kinda went hog-wild in here:

A Musical Interlude [Rogers Family — Shut Up and Dance + Best Song Ever Piano Cover, for starters]
YouTube | November 25, 2016 | Rogers Family
Posted on 07/27/2020 4:04:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3869003/posts

[Dacula]

This is magnificent. My heart is filled with joy.

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Bkmk

[Sans-Culotte]

I’m obviously not a Vivaldi fan to put it mildly and it seems I have company.

I listen to Vivaldi a lot, but I think of his music as pleasant background music for the most part. Aside from The Four Seasons and his Gloria, I don't find his music terribly compelling. It certainly is repetitious.

Re: that quote. I remember reading one in a whimsical history of music that stated "some say Vivaldi wrote the same concerto 400 times. That's not true. He wrote the same 2 concertos 200 times".