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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).
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 .
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi [n 2] (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist and impresario of Baroque music. [4] Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers , Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.
L'estro armonico (The Harmonic Inspiration), 12 concertos for various combinations, of which the best known are No. 6 in A minor for violin, No. 8 in A minor for two violins and No. 10 in B minor for four violins: 1711: 549, 578, 310, 550, 519, 356, 567, 522, 230, 580, 565, 265 4: La stravaganza (The Eccentricity), 12 violin concertos: c. 1714
In 1996-1998, the Russian composer Leonid Desyatnikov made a new arrangement of the above four pieces with a more obvious link between Vivaldi's 'Four Seasons' and Piazzolla's, by converting each of Piazzolla's movements into three-sections, and arranges the piece for solo violin and string orchestra. In each movement, Desyatnikov includes ...