Antonio Vivaldi: Quick Facts


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Also Known As Antonio Lucio Vivaldi
Born March 4, 1678 • Venice • Italy
Died July 28, 1741 (aged 63) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works “Concerto for Four Violins and Cello in B Minor, Op. 3, No. 10” • “Concerto for Two Trumpets in C Major” • “Ottone in Villa” • “The Four Seasons” • “Violin Concerto in B Minor”
Movement / Style Baroque music

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Oil portrait of composer Georg Frideric Handel by Thomas Hudson, showing Handel in a red coat with gold trim, white wig, and holding a sheet of music.
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Alessandro Scarlatti, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist, 1692; in the Palacio del Duque de Hijar, Epila, Spain
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