Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons are four violin concertos composed in Venice, Italy, at the height of the Baroque era in 1720. They were striking for the time: modern, virtuosic and energetic, they used music to evoke a scene and tell a story. Each is based on a “sonnet” (possibly written by Vivaldi himself), that elucidated what it was in the spirit of each season that his music was intended to evoke.
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