Born in Venice, he trained as both a violinist and priest. When he was 25, Vivaldi was appointed the 'master of violin' at an orphanage called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. He served in various roles ...

This might sound ridiculous, but if you’d walked into a record shop in 1955 on the hunt for new music that was radical and unusual, you might well have been handed a copy of an unknown piece of ...

Antonio Vivaldi wrote more than 500 concertos. Today, most people know four of them. But those four — commonly known as “The Four Seasons” — have become part of our cultural fabric. They may not even ...

Callers waiting to speak to the Department of Work and Pensions will no longer hear music from the Baroque masterpiece, after saying they couldn’t deal... ‘Viv-al-di’ repetition. Vivaldi’s Four ...

Composer Max Richter has done a brave thing for any artist in any medium: He's messed with a classic, specifically, Vivaldi's four violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. He has a new album simply ...

If music was a numbers game, this composer would be the undisputed greatest. He wrote a lot of music. In fact, people who aren’t fans of his describe his music as being "cookie-cutter" or "samey." ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Allan Kozinn SOME people hate Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” for pretty much the same reasons others love it: it is an exceptionally vivid example of ...