Vivaldi's Fourth Season Violin Concerto - (Violin and Piano Score) (Includes Accompaniment CD) (Contains Parts) ((Violin and Piano Score) (Includes Accompaniment CD) (Contains Parts))

Author: Vivaldi
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: In the "Four Seasons" concerto, Vivaldi signed himself as "the Italian musician of Count von Morzin," dedicating it to "Mr. Count Wenzel von Morzin." Franz von Morzin, the count who hired the 27-year-old Haydn as the conductor when the work was performed in 1759, was the descendant of this dedicatee, Count Wenzel von Morzin. From the dedication, we learn that Vivaldi often played the original version of this piece for the count. Moreover, these four sonnets were added later during the performance. Judging from the title and content, the verses were likely composed after the musical score. The perfect harmony between the title and the music of "The Four Seasons" is also one of the reasons why this work became one of Vivaldi's most popular compositions at the time. After publishing it in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in 1725 as part of a violin concerto collection titled Harmonies and Innovations in Music (Op. 8), it was soon reprinted in Paris. From 1728 onwards, records of performances of this work in Paris became increasingly frequent. In 1765, the 18th-century French composer Fran?ois Couperin premiered his work Te Deum with the subtitle "Chorus motet adapted from Vivaldi's Spring Concerto!"