Baroque Music
by Claude V. Palisca
Period: Baroque
Born: Friday, March 4, 1678 in Venice, Italy
Died: Friday, July 28, 1741 in Vienna, Austria
Nation of Origin: Italy
Major Works:
450 concertos
The Four Seasons
Harmonic Inspiration
Sinfonias (pre-Classic symphonies)
19 extant operas
secular cantatas
church works for voices and instruments
Gloria Mass
Other Information:
Vivaldi worked many years as a teacher and administrator of an
orphanage for girls in Venice. He was a priest, violinist, and
composer whose string concertos exemplify late Baroque style and
greatly influenced the work of J. S. Bach.
General Bibliography:
Bukofzer, Manfred F., Music in the Baroque Era, from Monteverdi
to Bach, W.W. Norton & Company, November 1947, ISBN:
0393097455
Kennedy, Michael, The Oxford Dictionary of
Music, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 1997, ISBN:
0198691629
Palisca, Claude V. Baroque Music, Prentice Hall, December
1990, ISBN: 0130584967
Sadie, Stanley and Tyrrell, John; Editors, The New Grove
Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Groves Dictionaries, Inc.,
January 2001, ISBN: 1561592390
Slonimsky, Nicolas and Kuhn, Laura; Editors,
Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians, Gale Group,
December 2000, ISBN: 0028655257
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