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In this section you can find the texts of the four sonnets that accompanied Antonio Vivaldi's famous collection of concertos, known as The Four Seasons.
As a descriptive basis for his Four Seasons, Vivaldi took four Sonnets, apparently written by himself. Each of the four sonnets is expressed in a concerto, which in turn is divided into three phrases or ideas, reflected in the three movements (fast-slow-fast) of each concerto.
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon de La Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8, 1725). The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year. These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court chapel master in ...
The four concertos in The Four Seasons -- Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter —are unique for their vivid programmatic elements, meaning they are composed with a narrative in mind. Each concerto is paired with a corresponding sonnet, thought to have been written by Vivaldi himself, that describes the scenes and emotions the music conveys.
8 Οκτ 2024 · The Four Seasons, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. Vivaldi published the concerti with accompanying poems that elucidated what it was about those seasons that his music was intended to evoke.
The four concerti, known as The Four Seasons, are part of a group of eight violin concerti published in Amsterdam in 1725 as Op. 8. Vivaldi provided sonnets, probably his own, to head each of the four concerti. It is clear from the detailed notes Vivaldi made on the score that he enjoyed composing these concertos as well as performing them.
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote his famous four concertos as one of the earliest examples of “program music” or music that follows a narrative without performed words or dramatic action. These four sonnets about the seasons have been printed with the musical score of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons since the first edition, published in Amsterdam ...
