Vivaldi's Music During The Baroque Era

The Baroque Era’s music had much different music than the music that preceded it. Also, the music during this time helped build the following era, the Classical Era, which is revered by many as the peak of human kind’s musical works. The Baroque Era has some musicians that need recognition for defining the Baroque Era, especially the musical genius, Antonio Vivaldi. This writing will be exploring why the musical side of the era Vivaldi lived in was so amazing, summarizing Vivaldi’s life and comparing Vivaldi’s life to one of his pieces.

Because of the singers during the Baroque Era enhanced their vocal skills there became some different types of music that was created. Such as opera, similar to a play but is sung throughout and accompanied

This also inspired this era to create more distinct types of music. Such as the suite, these songs were dance songs, but unlike before, these songs were compromised of several different brief dance pieces. Another important type of music that arose was the concerto, which was typically performed by several musicians, but with no vocal accompaniment. Concertos were meant to tell a story without any words, because it gave people the ability to envision their own view on how the story played out. This was Antonio Vivaldi’s specialty and learned to perfect the concerto by using the three-movement format and using the ritornello

His father started to teach him at a young age on how to play the violin. His first public appearance was with the San Marco Basilica Orchestra alongside his father. In 1703, Antonio Vivaldi was ordained as a priest. But, due to him having health issues he could not attend mass and became a secular priest. Also during 1703, Vivaldi was appointed as the violin master at Ospedale della Pietà, a home for young abandoned kids. Vivaldi had earned recognition as a composer in 1713 when Pietà turned to him to write sacred vocal music, even earning commissions later off of these pieces. But in the 1720’s, is where Vivaldi became wealthy and prospered, by traveling across Europe selling several of his musical masterpieces . By the 1730’s, his music was started to become unfashionable. When 1741 came around, Vivaldi had become ill and died on July 28. His works included “more than 500 concertos and over 70 sonatas; about 45 operas; and religious music, including the oratorio Juditha Triumphan” fulfilling his career as a musical