Now Hear This: Vivaldi Something Completely Different
Posted on 08/04/2020 11:36:31 AM PDT by 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.
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That’s my old buddy Scott Yoo. He’s a regular performer at Seattle Chamber Music Society events. I love talking shop with him.
:^) Glad this PBS show made it out onto YouTube. I'd never heard of him before this past week, when his episode about JS Bach popped up in related vids. Glad that happened!
More reliable than even Barry White.
Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons is awesome!
Did you go to college prior to 1939? That would be somethin'.
Yeah, rediscovered. Did you read any of the article?
It would have been nice if he'd written a follow-up, "Seasons 5-8", y'know, for binge listening. ;^)
A quip by Peter Shickele (of P.D.Q. Bach fame) was (not exact quote) “Vivaldi wrote 500 concertos or the same concerto 500 times.”
The cartoonist Rodriques did a cartoon every month in the Stereo Review lampooning stereophiles (truly worth being lampooned). One of his cartoons showed a sign in a stereo shop that read “Vivaldi Tapes Erased for Free.”
I’m obviously not a Vivaldi fan to put it mildly and it seems I have company.
Thanks, I sent that to a violinist, not sure if she’s seen it or not.
Is it Baroque?
Why? Did you baraque it?.............
From 2:33 to 2:45 there is a chromatic chord progression that doesn't sound very Baroque at all. It sounds Late Romantic.
Scott just played some snips.
http://www.google.com/search?q=vivaldi+lamarosa&tbm=vid
http://www.google.com/search?q=vivaldi+four+seasons&tbm=vid
Vivaldi’s music was lost for nearly 200 years, and only discovered in the 20th century. Beethoven and Brahms had no idea who Vivaldi was, since they lived during a time when his music was lost. There were no “Vivaldi Concerts” in the 19th century.
Ahh, Vivaldi.
:^) I did. Then I coco'ed, and after I finished, I re-coco'ed.
Hey, I finished with the Vivaldi one, and just started the one about Scarlatti. :^)
My dad’s friend had a parrot named Vivaldi. When his friend would go to work just after getting the parrot he’d turn on a stack of CD’s with Vivaldi - a couple of months later the parrot was singing that stuff; totally freaked him out, hence the name.
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