Vivaldi ranks among the most popular and widely recorded of Baroque Scholars devoted much research to his work People once lost many works of Vivaldi but rediscovered them in one case as recently as 2006 People regularly and widely play his music in the present day over the world RECOMPOSED BY MAX RICHTER VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS VIOLIN WITH PIANO ACCOMPANIMENT Series Music Sales America Publisher Chester Music Medium Softcover Audio Online String Quartet Composer Antonio Vivaldi Arranger Max Richter This edition matches the version recorded by Max Richter on the chart topping Deutsche Grammophon recording Includes a download card with full demonstration recordings of the pieces and piano only accompaniment tracks Inventory HL 14043147 ISBN 9781783053193 UPC 888680026714 Edition Number CH81763 Width 9 Length 12 Pages 88 Recomposed by Max RichterVivaldi The Four Seasons Violin with Piano Accompaniment

People best know Italian composer Antonio Lucio Vivaldi particularly for n The Four Seasons n 1725 a set of violin concertos People recognized the greatness of Antonio Lucio Vivaldi a Baroque red haired priest and virtuoso whose influence spread widely over Europe during his lifetime Vivaldi began studying for the priesthood at the age of 15 years in 1693 and the bishop ordained him ordained at 25 years of age in 1703 but due to a health problem gave him dispensation to no longer say public Mass This Venetian virtuoso and impresario wrote Baroque music People regard Vivaldi alongside Johann Sebastian Bach and George Frideric Handel of the greatest Baroque and his widespread influence during his lifetime across Europe gave origin to many imitators and admirers He pioneered many developments in orchestration technique and programmatic music He consolidated the emerging form into a widely accepted and paramount followed idiom in the development of instrumental music of Johann Sebastian Bach Antonio Vivaldi wrote much for the all female music ensemble of the Ospedale della Piet a home for abandoned children and his employer from 1703 to 1715 and from 1723 to 1740 Vivaldi also succeeded some with expensive stagings of his operas in Venice Mantua and Vienna Vivaldi mainly developed and wrote a variety of especially sacred choral or instrumental music and than forty of fifty operas He worked a series After meeting Charles VI Habsburg the emperor Vivaldi moved to Vienna and expected preferment and royal support After arrival of Antonio Vivaldi however the emperor quickly died Impoverished Vivaldi died within less than a year People received music of Vivaldi during his lifetime but his musical reputation later declined in popularity for than two centuries until it underwent a vigorous revival in the first half of the 20th century Today.