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How did Ezra Pound help revive interest in the composer Antonio Vivaldi?
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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, photograph by Alvin Langdon Coburn, c. 1913.
During his time living in Rapallo, Italy, in the 1930s, the American poet Ezra Pound developed a significant interest in music, which led him to organize a series of concerts in the city. Through these efforts and with the assistance of the American violinist Olga Rudge, Pound played a major role in the rediscovery and revival of interest in the 18th-century Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi.1