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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 Mantua .
Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) is a set of twelve concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi and published in 1725 as Op. 8. All are for violin solo, strings and basso continuo. The first four, which date back to 1718–23, are called The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni).
Antonio Vivaldi (engraving by François Morellon la Cave, from Michel-Charles Le Cène's edition of Vivaldi's Op. 8) The following is a list of compositions by the Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741).
The Concerto alla rustica, unlike some other of Vivaldi's concertos, did not include a descriptive programme. [2] It was composed some time between mid-1720 and 1730, during which time Vivaldi was working on his Contest Between Harmony and Invention, Op. 8—the work from which his best-known set of compositions, The Four Seasons, derives.
Intimate Letters: Leoš Janáček, String Quartet No. 2; L'inverno: Antonio Vivaldi, from Le quattro stagioni, Violin Concerto RV 297, Op. 8 L'estro armonico fourth concerto (from The Four Seasons: The Winter) Ipsa: Jānis Ivanovs, Symphony No. 15, Sinfonia Ipsa; Irish: Charles Villiers Stanford, Symphony No. 3 in F minor, Op. 28
The piece is a complete recomposition and reinterpretation of Vivaldi's violin concertos The Four Seasons. Although Richter said that he had discarded 75 percent of Vivaldi's original material, [1] the parts he does use are phased and looped, emphasising his grounding in postmodern and minimalist music. [2]