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Antonio Vivaldi

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian Baroque musical composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. [1]

150 relations: Accademia degli Arcadi, Adelaide Festival, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alfredo Casella, Ambassador, Amsterdam, Anna Girò, Antonio Denzio, Apostolo Zeno, Argippo, Aria, Arnold Schering, Arsilda, regina di Ponto, Arturo Toscanini, Asthma, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Bach cantata, Baldassare Galuppi, Baptism, Baroque music, Bassoon, Benedetto Marcello, Brescia, Caricature, Carlo Goldoni, Catone in Utica, Cello, Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Classical period (music), Clergy, Composer, Concerto, Corfu, Desmond Chute, Deutsche Grammophon, Earthquake, Estienne Roger, Ezra Pound, Farnace, Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, Figured bass, Flute, Franz Anton von Sporck, Fritz Kreisler, George Frideric Handel, Gian Francesco Malipiero, Giovanni Legrenzi, Gloria (Vivaldi), Griselda (Vivaldi), H. C. Robbins Landon, ..., Harpsichordist, Henriette of France (1727–1752), Historically informed performance, Holy Roman Emperor, Hotel Sacher, Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione, Il teatro alla moda, Impresario, Infection, Janice Jordan Shefelman, Johann Adolph Hasse, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joseph Haydn, Juditha triumphans, Karlskirche, Knight, L'estro armonico, L'incoronazione di Dario, L'Olimpiade, La cetra (Vivaldi), La Silvia, La stravaganza, Leonardo Leo, Louis Kaufman, Louis XV of France, Louise Élisabeth of France, Lute, Lyra viol, Mandolin, Manfred Bukofzer, Mantua, Marc Pincherle, Mass (liturgy), Michael Lorenz (musicologist), Michael Talbot (author), Michael Talbot (musicologist), Michel-Charles Le Cène, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica, Music & Letters, Napoleonic Wars, Nerone fatto Cesare, Nicolas Chédeville, Oboe, Olga Rudge, Opera, Opus number, Oratorio, Orlando finto pazzo, Orphanage, Ospedale della Pietà, Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718), Ottone in villa, Pamphlet, Peter Ryom, Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, Piedmont, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Pietro Metastasio, Pope Benedict XIII, Prague Castle, Priesthood in the Catholic Church, Prima donna, Program music, Psalms, Radio drama, Radio National, Recorder (musical instrument), Republic of Venice, Romantic music, Ryom-Verzeichnis, San Giovanni in Bragora, Sean Riley (playwright), Sequin (coin), Sinfonia, Sonata, Sonnet, St John Passion, St Mark's Basilica, St Matthew Passion, St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna, Stabat Mater, Stabat Mater (Vivaldi), Stradivarius, Teatro San Angelo, The Four Seasons (Vivaldi), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Theater am Kärntnertor, Tito Manlio, Trieste, TU Wien, Turin National University Library, Vatican Library, Venice, Vicenza, Vienna, Viola d'amore, Violin concerto, Virtuoso, Wichita State University, World War II. Expand index (100 more) »

Accademia degli Arcadi

The Accademia degli Arcadi or Accademia dell'Arcadia, "Academy of Arcadia" or "Academy of the Arcadians", was an Italian literary academy founded in Rome in 1690.

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Adelaide Festival

The Adelaide Festival of Arts, also known as the Adelaide Festival, is an arts festival held annually in the South Australian capital of Adelaide.

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Alessandro Scarlatti

Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.

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Alfredo Casella

Alfredo Casella (25 July 18835 March 1947) was an Italian composer, pianist and conductor.

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Ambassador

An ambassador is an official envoy, especially a high-ranking diplomat who represents a state and is usually accredited to another sovereign state or to an international organization as the resident representative of their own government or sovereign or appointed for a special and often temporary diplomatic assignment.

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Amsterdam

Amsterdam is the capital and most populous municipality of the Netherlands.

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Anna Girò

Anna Girò (born circa 1710), or Anna Giraud La Mantovana, was the stage name of Anna Maddalena Tessieri, an Italian mezzo-soprano.

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Antonio Denzio

Antonio Denzio (23 September 1689 – after 1763) was an Italian impresario, tenor, and librettist.

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Apostolo Zeno

Apostolo Zeno (11 December 1669 in Venice – 11 November 1750 in Venice) was a Venetian poet, librettist, journalist, and man of letters.

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Argippo

Argippo is an opera libretto by Domenico Lalli, which in Giovanni Porta's setting premiered in Venice in 1717.

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Aria

An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.

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Arnold Schering

Arnold Schering (2 April 1877, Breslau, Germany – 7 March 1941, Berlin, Germany) was a German musicologist.

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Arsilda, regina di Ponto

Arsilda, regina di Ponto is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi.

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Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867 – January 16, 1957) was an Italian conductor.

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Asthma

Asthma is a common long-term inflammatory disease of the airways of the lungs.

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Australian Broadcasting Corporation

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) founded in 1929 is Australia's national broadcaster, funded by the Australian Federal Government but specifically independent of Government and politics in the Commonwealth.

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Bach cantata

The cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach (German: Bachkantaten) consist of at least 209 surviving works.

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Baldassare Galuppi

Baldassare Galuppi (18 October 17063 January 1785) was an Italian composer, born on the island of Burano in the Venetian Republic.

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Baptism

Baptism (from the Greek noun βάπτισμα baptisma; see below) is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into Christianity.

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Baroque music

Baroque music is a style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750.

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Bassoon

The bassoon is a woodwind instrument in the double reed family that typically plays music written in the bass and tenor clefs, and occasionally the treble.

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Benedetto Marcello

Benedetto Giacomo Marcello ((31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher.

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Brescia

Brescia (Lombard: Brèsa,, or; Brixia; Bressa) is a city and comune in the region of Lombardy in northern Italy.

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Caricature

A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or through other artistic drawings.

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Carlo Goldoni

Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice.

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Catone in Utica

Catone in Utica is an opera libretto by Metastasio, that was originally written for Leonardo Vinci's 1728 opera.

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Cello

The cello (plural cellos or celli) or violoncello is a string instrument.

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Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor

Charles VI (1 October 1685 – 20 October 1740; Karl VI.) succeeded his elder brother, Joseph I, as Holy Roman Emperor, King of Bohemia (as Charles II), King of Hungary and Croatia, Serbia and Archduke of Austria (as Charles III) in 1711.

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Classical period (music)

The Classical period was an era of classical music between roughly 1730 to 1820, associated with the style of Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.

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Clergy

Clergy are some of the main and important formal leaders within certain religions.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Concerto

A concerto (plural concertos, or concerti from the Italian plural) is a musical composition usually composed in three movements, in which, usually, one solo instrument (for instance, a piano, violin, cello or flute) is accompanied by an orchestra or concert band.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (translit,; translit,; Corcyra; Corfù) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea.

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Desmond Chute

Desmond Macready Chute (1895–1962) was an English poet and artist, who became a Catholic priest in 1927.

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Deutsche Grammophon

Deutsche Grammophon is a German classical music record label that was the precursor of corporation called PolyGram.

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Earthquake

An earthquake (also known as a quake, tremor or temblor) is the shaking of the surface of the Earth, resulting from the sudden release of energy in the Earth's lithosphere that creates seismic waves.

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Estienne Roger

Estienne Roger (1665 or 1666 in Caen, France – July 7, 1722 in Amsterdam) was a francophone printer and publisher working in the Netherlands.

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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, as well as a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement.

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Farnace

Farnace (Italian spelling for Pharnaces), is the title of several 18th-century operas set to various librettos.

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Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany

Ferdinando de' Medici (9 August 1663 – 31 October 1713) was the eldest son of Cosimo III de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, and Marguerite Louise d'Orléans.

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Figured bass

Figured bass, or thoroughbass, is a kind of musical notation in which numerals and symbols (often accidentals) indicate intervals, chords, and non-chord tones that a musician playing piano, harpsichord, organ, lute (or other instruments capable of playing chords) play in relation to the bass note that these numbers and symbols appear above or below.

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Flute

The flute is a family of musical instruments in the woodwind group.

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Franz Anton von Sporck

Franz Anton von Sporck, Count (Franz Anton Reichsgraf von Sporck in German, František Antonín hrabě Špork in Czech) (born 9 March 1662 in Lysá nad Labem or Heřmanův Městec; died 30 March 1738 in Lysá nad Labem) was a German-speaking literatus and patron of the arts who lived in the province of Bohemia in what is now the Czech Republic.

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Fritz Kreisler

Friedrich "Fritz" Kreisler (February2, 1875January29, 1962) was an Austrian-born violinist and composer.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.

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Gian Francesco Malipiero

Gian Francesco Malipiero (18 March 1882 – 1 August 1973) was an Italian composer, musicologist, music teacher and editor.

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Giovanni Legrenzi

Giovanni Legrenzi (baptized August 12, 1626 – May 27, 1690) was an Italian composer of opera, vocal and instrumental music, and organist, of the Baroque era.

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Gloria (Vivaldi)

Antonio Vivaldi wrote at least three settings of the hymn Gloria in excelsis Deo, whose words date probably from the 4th Century and which is an integral part of the Ordinary of the Mass.

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Griselda (Vivaldi)

Griselda is a dramma per musica in three acts that was composed by Antonio Vivaldi.

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H. C. Robbins Landon

Howard Chandler Robbins Landon (March 6, 1926November 20, 2009) was an American musicologist, journalist, historian and broadcaster, best known for his work in rediscovering the huge body of neglected music by Haydn and in correcting misunderstandings about Mozart.

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Harpsichordist

A harpsichordist is a person who plays the harpsichord.

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Henriette of France (1727–1752)

Anne Henriette of France(14 August 1727 – 10 February 1752) was a French princess, the twin of Louise Élisabeth of France, and the second child of King Louis XV of France and queen consort Marie Leszczyńska.

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Historically informed performance

Historically informed performance (also referred to as period performance, authentic performance, or HIP) is an approach to the performance of classical music, which aims to be faithful to the approach, manner and style of the musical era in which a work was originally conceived.

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Holy Roman Emperor

The Holy Roman Emperor (historically Romanorum Imperator, "Emperor of the Romans") was the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire (800-1806 AD, from Charlemagne to Francis II).

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Hotel Sacher

The Hotel Sacher is a five-star hotel located in the Innere Stadt first district of Vienna, Austria, vis-à-vis to the Vienna State Opera.

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Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione

Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention) is a set of twelve concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi between 1723 and 1725 and published in 1725 as Op. 8.

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Il teatro alla moda

Il teatro alla moda (The Fashionable Theater) is a satirical pamphlet in which its author, the Venetian composer Benedetto Marcello (1686–1739), vents his critical opinions on the milieu of the Italian opera seria in the first decades of the eighteenth century.

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Impresario

An impresario (from the Italian impresa, "an enterprise or undertaking") is a person who organizes and often finances concerts, plays, or operas, performing a role similar to that of an artist manager or a film or television producer.

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Infection

Infection is the invasion of an organism's body tissues by disease-causing agents, their multiplication, and the reaction of host tissues to the infectious agents and the toxins they produce.

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Janice Jordan Shefelman

Janice Jordan Shefelman is an American writer, best known for her children's book I, Vivaldi, based upon the life of Antonio Vivaldi.

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Johann Adolph Hasse

Johann Adolph Hasse (born in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, baptised 25 March 1699 – died in Venice 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.

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Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.

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Joseph Haydn

(Franz) Joseph HaydnSee Haydn's name.

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Juditha triumphans

Juditha triumphans devicta Holofernis barbarie (Judith triumphant over the barbarians of Holofernes), RV 644, is an oratorio by Antonio Vivaldi, the only survivor of the four that he is known to have composed.

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Karlskirche

The Rektoratskirche St.

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Knight

A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a monarch, bishop or other political leader for service to the monarch or a Christian Church, especially in a military capacity.

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L'estro armonico

L'estro armonico (the harmonic inspiration), Antonio Vivaldi's Op. 3, is a set of 12 concertos for stringed instruments, first published in Amsterdam in 1711.

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L'incoronazione di Dario

L'incoronazione di Dario (RV 719) is a dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi with an Italian libretto by Adriano Morselli.

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L'Olimpiade

L'Olimpiade is an opera libretto in three acts by Metastasio originally written for an operatic setting by Antonio Caldara of 1733.

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La cetra (Vivaldi)

La cetra, Op. 9, is a set of twelve violin concertos by Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1727.

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La Silvia

La Silvia (RV 734) is an dramma pastorale per musica in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Enrico Bissari.

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La stravaganza

La stravaganza (The Extravagance), Op. 4, is a set of concertos written by Antonio Vivaldi in 1712–1713.

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Leonardo Leo

Leonardo Leo (5 August 1694 – 31 October 1744), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was a Neapolitan Baroque composer.

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Louis Kaufman

Louis Kaufman (May 10, 1905 – February 9, 1994) was an American violinist and possibly the most recorded musical artist of the 20th century.

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Louis XV of France

Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved, was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774.

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Louise Élisabeth of France

Marie Louise Élisabeth of France (Marie Louise Élisabeth; 14 August 1727 – 6 December 1759) was a French princess, the eldest daughter of King Louis XV of France and his Queen consort, Maria Leszczyńska, and the elder twin of Anne Henriette de France.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck (either fretted or unfretted) and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Lyra viol

The lyra viol is a small bass viol, used primarily in England in the seventeenth century.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Manfred Bukofzer

Manfred Fritz Bukofzer (March 27, 1910 – December 7, 1955) was a German-American musicologist and humanist.

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Mantua

Mantua (Mantova; Emilian and Latin: Mantua) is a city and comune in Lombardy, Italy, and capital of the province of the same name.

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Marc Pincherle

Marc Pincherle was born in Constantine on June 13, 1888 and died in Paris on June 20, 1974.

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Mass (liturgy)

Mass is a term used to describe the main eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.

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Michael Lorenz (musicologist)

Michael Lorenz (born 18 July 1958) is an Austrian musicologist, music teacher, musician, alpine historian and photographer, noted as a Mozart scholar and for his archival work combining music history and genealogical research.

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Michael Talbot (author)

Michael Coleman Talbot (September 29, 1953 – May 27, 1992)"Michael Talbot".

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Michael Talbot (musicologist)

Michael Owen Talbot, (born 4 January 1943 in Luton) is a British musicologist and composer.

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Michel-Charles Le Cène

Michel-Charles Le Cène (1684–1743) was a French printer.

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Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica

The Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica is a music museum and music library in the Palazzo Aldini Sanguinetti, in the historic center of Bologna, Italy.

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Music & Letters

Music & Letters is an academic journal published quarterly by Oxford University Press with a focus on musicology.

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Napoleonic Wars

The Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815) were a series of major conflicts pitting the French Empire and its allies, led by Napoleon I, against a fluctuating array of European powers formed into various coalitions, financed and usually led by the United Kingdom.

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Nerone fatto Cesare

Nerone fatto Cesare is a lost dramma per musica by Antonio Vivaldi.

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Nicolas Chédeville

Nicolas Chédeville (20 February 1705 – 6 August 1782) was a French composer, musette player and musette maker.

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Oboe

Oboes are a family of double reed woodwind instruments.

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Olga Rudge

Olga Rudge (13 April 1895 – 15 March 1996) was an American-born concert violinist, now mainly remembered as the long-time mistress of the poet Ezra Pound, by whom she had a daughter, Mary.

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Opera

Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.

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Opus number

In musical composition, the opus number is the "work number" that is assigned to a composition, or to a set of compositions, to indicate the chronological order of the composer's production.

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Oratorio

An oratorio is a large musical composition for orchestra, choir, and soloists.

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Orlando finto pazzo

Orlando finto pazzo (Orlando, the Fake Madman) is an opera (dramma per musica) in three acts composed by Antonio Vivaldi to a libretto by Grazio Braccioli.

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Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans—children whose biological parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to take care of them.

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Ospedale della Pietà

The Ospedale della Pietà was a convent, orphanage, and music school in Venice.

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Ottoman–Venetian War (1714–1718)

The Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War was fought between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire between 1714 and 1718.

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Ottone in villa

Ottone in villa (Otho at his villa, RV 729) is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi to an Italian libretto by Domenico Lalli (the pseudonym of Sebastiano Biancardi).

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Peter Ryom

Peter Ryom (born May 31, 1937 in Copenhagen) is a Danish musicologist.

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Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt

Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt (July 20, 1671 in Darmstadt – August 11, 1736 in Vienna) was a Prince of Hesse-Darmstadt, Imperial Field marshal and Governor of Mantua.

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Piedmont

Piedmont (Piemonte,; Piedmontese, Occitan and Piemont; Piémont) is a region in northwest Italy, one of the 20 regions of the country.

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Pier Leone Ghezzi

Pier Leone Ghezzi (28 June 1674 – 6 March 1755) was an Italian Rococo painter and caricaturist active in Rome.

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Pietro Metastasio

Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.

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Pope Benedict XIII

Pope Benedict XIII (Benedictus XIII; 2 February 1649 – 21 February 1730), born Pietro Francesco Orsini and later called Vincenzo Maria Orsini, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 29 May 1724 to his death in 1730.

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Prague Castle

Prague Castle (Pražský hrad) is a castle complex in Prague, Czech Republic, dating from the 9th century.

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Priesthood in the Catholic Church

The ministerial orders of the Catholic Church (for similar but different rules among Eastern Catholics see Eastern Catholic Church) are those of bishop, presbyter (more commonly called priest in English), and deacon.

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Prima donna

In opera or commedia dell'arte, a prima donna (plural: prime donne; Italian for "first lady") is the leading female singer in the company, the person to whom the prime roles would be given.

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Program music

Program music or programme music is a type of art music that attempts to musically render an extra-musical narrative.

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Psalms

The Book of Psalms (תְּהִלִּים or, Tehillim, "praises"), commonly referred to simply as Psalms or "the Psalms", is the first book of the Ketuvim ("Writings"), the third section of the Hebrew Bible, and a book of the Christian Old Testament.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Radio National

ABC Radio National, known on-air as RN, is an Australia-wide Public Service Broadcasting radio network run by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Recorder (musical instrument)

The recorder is a woodwind musical instrument in the group known as internal duct flutes—flutes with a whistle mouthpiece.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice (Repubblica di Venezia, later: Repubblica Veneta; Repùblica de Venèsia, later: Repùblica Vèneta), traditionally known as La Serenissima (Most Serene Republic of Venice) (Serenissima Repubblica di Venezia; Serenìsima Repùblica Vèneta), was a sovereign state and maritime republic in northeastern Italy, which existed for a millennium between the 8th century and the 18th century.

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Romantic music

Romantic music is a period of Western classical music that began in the late 18th or early 19th century.

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Ryom-Verzeichnis

The Ryom-Verzeichnis or Ryom Verzeichnis (both often abbreviated RV) is a (now standard) catalog of the music of Antonio Vivaldi created by Peter Ryom.

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San Giovanni in Bragora

San Giovanni in Bragora is a church in Venice, Italy, located in the sestiere of Castello.

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Sean Riley (playwright)

Sean Riley is a playwright from South Australia.

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Sequin (coin)

The sequin (Venetian and zecchino) is a gold coin weighing of.986 gold, minted by the Republic of Venice from the 13th century onwards.

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Sinfonia

Sinfonia is the Italian word for symphony, from the Latin symphonia, in turn derived from Ancient Greek συμφωνία symphōnia (agreement or concord of sound), from the prefix σύν (together) and ϕωνή (sound).

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Sonata

Sonata (Italian:, pl. sonate; from Latin and Italian: sonare, "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece played as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian cantare, "to sing"), a piece sung.

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Sonnet

A sonnet is a poem in a specific form which originated in Italy; Giacomo da Lentini is credited with its invention.

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St John Passion

The Passio secundum Joannem or St John Passion (Johannes-Passion), BWV 245, is a Passion or oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, the older of the surviving Passions by Bach.

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St Mark's Basilica

The Patriarchal Cathedral Basilica of Saint Mark (Basilica Cattedrale Patriarcale di San Marco), commonly known as Saint Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco; Baxéłega de San Marco), is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Venice, northern Italy.

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St Matthew Passion

The St Matthew Passion (Matthäus-Passion), BWV 244, is a Passion, a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in 1727 for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra, with libretto by Picander.

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St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna

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Stabat Mater

The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion.

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Stabat Mater (Vivaldi)

Stabat Mater for solo alto and orchestra, RV 621, is a composition by the Italian baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi on one of the Sorrows of Mary.

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Stradivarius

A Stradivarius is one of the violins, violas, cellos and other string instruments built by members of the Italian family Stradivari, particularly Antonio Stradivari (Latin: Antonius Stradivarius), during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Teatro San Angelo

The Teatro San Angelo (in Venetian dialect) or Teatro Sant' Angelo (in Italian) was once a theatre in Venice which ran from 1677 until 1803.

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The Four Seasons (Vivaldi)

The Four Seasons (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.

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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians

The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.

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Theater am Kärntnertor

Theater am Kärntnertor or Kärntnertortheater (English: Carinthian Gate Theatre) was a prestigious theatre in Vienna during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Tito Manlio

Tito Manlio (RV 738) is an opera in three acts by Antonio Vivaldi, to a libretto by Matteo Noris.

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Trieste

Trieste (Trst) is a city and a seaport in northeastern Italy.

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TU Wien

TU Wien (Technische Universität Wien; formerly: k.k. Polytechnisches Institut, Imperial and Royal Polytechnic Institute from 1815–1872; Technische Hochschule (TH Wien), College of Technology from 1872–1975; Vienna University of Technology from 1975–2014) is one of the major universities in Vienna, the capital of Austria.

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Turin National University Library

The National University Library (Biblioteca nazionale universitaria in Italian) in Turin, Italy, is one of the country's main libraries.

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Vatican Library

The Vatican Apostolic Library (Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana), more commonly called the Vatican Library or simply the Vat, is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City.

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Venice

Venice (Venezia,; Venesia) is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

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Vicenza

Vicenza is a city in northeastern Italy.

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Vienna

Vienna (Wien) is the federal capital and largest city of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria.

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Viola d'amore

The viola d'amore (Italian for "love viol") is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period.

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Violin concerto

A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra).

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Virtuoso

A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso or, "virtuous", Late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus, "virtue", "excellence", "skill", or "manliness") is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability in a particular art or field such as fine arts, music, singing, playing a musical instrument, or composition.

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Wichita State University

Wichita State University (WSU) is a public research university in Wichita, Kansas, United States, and governed by the Kansas Board of Regents.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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A. Vivaldi, A.Vivaldi, Anthony Vivaldi, Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, Il Prete Rosso, Prete Rosso, The Red Priest, Vivaldi.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi

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