Discoveries For this edition of 2010 of The Moviola I want to share with readers
My discovery: Antonio Vivaldi
By Diana Ovalle
Correspondent The Moviola
Rome (Italy )
night
Between Dreams enters through the window with an impetuous whisper ..
be the wind that threatens to silence?
The first voice whispered: "The Follies" (Madness) asks: whom? and answered, by Antonio Vivaldi.
Followed by a thick mist accompanied the violins and the hands of the musician that peer out of our ears, the edge of the skin like threads of fresh water.
Then we get into a round that enhances the color of fire and the center of our bodies and Antonio Vivaldi detràs reborn a hundred years of oblivion after his death (July 28, 1741) when in the second half of the nineteenth century begins publishing the complete works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
is at this time when researchers are transcriptions of Vivaldi and Bachianas here that attention to this musician "unknown" return to the surface only to the period between 1926 and 1930 could be rescued by the director of the National Library Turin, Luigi Torri, the owner of Music History, Alberto Gentili, a collection of previously unknown works by Vivaldi, including 300 concerts, 8 sonatas, 14 Complete Works, 5 volumes of sacred vocal compositions and 2 secular musical compositions; doing justice to the huge musical production this musician since childhood had been immersed in the sweet world of staves.
Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, a territory without knowing it "pose" for pictorial snapshot of Canaletto as "the Grand Canal and the Church of the Salute" (1730), or their "Capricci" (Caprichos) and found on the opposite shore, the painter Francesco Guardi which dropped the squad for the same Canaletto Grand Canal.
are the years of fracture and the transition from the Baroque movement through the Rococò mainly in France will come later to the exact opposite, Neoclassical. In music, This study is less certain and profitable, because it has a different study based on the visual arts. What is certain is that the 600 'in Venice comes the music of the instruments as the vocalist, or rather, the string instruments like the violin or the cello will not only voice service, took the form of music entirely autonomously, in turn will also be the century in the history of European music of the birth of the Opera. Antonio Vivaldi
time known as the "Red Priest" (because he was a priest and the reddish color of her hair), he could never say Mass for a wrong which he described in a letter as "oppression of the chest," but the violin from a very early age was given as a gift by his father Giovanni Battista (also violinist)
At the age of 10 years, and participated as a substitute of the father in the orchestra of the Basilica San Marcos (built to contain the saint's body) where his father played the violin and the 1703 takes the post of violin teacher at the Hospital of Pity, "which was a girls' orphanage where they were" detained " girls abandoned for various reasons (there are many references about these institutions which speak of abuse innenarrables with the "prisoners" as well as sexual uses "non-saints" taking note that no one would defend these rotten human beings), among this for educational reasons and religious choir singing assumes great importance in educational programs, and so those seminars were developed musical where most gifted students trained in musical theory came in singing solo and in the study of various instruments, these hospitals were a great success and reputation for the quality of the concerts were usually the holidays and Sundays. Among the papers of Wolfgang Goethe, not enough words to articulate his visit to Venice and the famous concerts that were offered in churches and hospitals. Violin Teacher
In step-Master and Master Chorus Concert later took care of the scenic
in performing the opera "Ottone in Villa", "Orlando finto pazzo", "La Costanza Trionfante degli amori e degli odii", "Adelaide" among others. Vivaldi being prolific author of concerts, where production is a vast range of musical genres ranging from the sonata for a solo instrument to the oratory and melodrama.
When the pages start gnashing by the wind that passes, you feel the arrival of that "Follia" (Madness) which was initiated in our footsteps.
This song "La Follia", comes from Portugal and raised in the sixteenth century, later entering in Italy by sea through the port of Naples, during the 600 'arrives in Rome where Arcangelo Corelli and making plays "12 and Cymbal Violin Sonata Op 5" in 1705 was in Venice in the arms of Vivaldi Sonata in D minor, "and eight years later takes flight to Amsterdam shortly after in 1720 Georg Friedrich Handel from London call forward" Saraband "(without being able to imagine moving images in the distant 1975, were mixed with their music to tell the story of young Barry Lyndon).
is happy before closing his eyes to find the color of silence, the body heat blowing wounds, "The Follia "(Madness) of Corelli, Handel, Antonio Vivaldi our guest.
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