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Antonio Vivaldi

1678 - 1741

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Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, musician, poet, virtuoso violinist, impresario of Baroque music and Roman Catholic priest. 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. He pioneered many developments in orchestration, violin technique and programmatic music. He consolidated the emerging concerto form, especially the solo concerto, into a widely accepted and followed idiom. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Antonio Vivaldi is the 5th most popular composer, the 10th most popular biography from Italy (up from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Italian Composer.

Antonio Vivaldi is most famous for composing a series of concertos called The Four Seasons.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Antonio Vivaldi ranks 5 out of 1,451. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frédéric Chopin. After him are Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn, Richard Wagner, Franz Schubert, and Igor Stravinsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1678, Antonio Vivaldi ranks 1. After him are Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor, Amaro Pargo, Louis Alexandre, Count of Toulouse, Filippo Juvarra, Francesco Farnese, Duke of Parma, Karl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Peter Lacy, Pierre Raymond de Montmort, Adrien Maurice de Noailles, and Jakob Hermann. Among people deceased in 1741, Antonio Vivaldi ranks 1. After him are Vitus Bering, Ulrika Eleonora, Queen of Sweden, Johann Joseph Fux, Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria, Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, Wirich Philipp von Daun, Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine, Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg, Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignano, and Georg Rafael Donner.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Antonio Vivaldi ranks 10 out of 5,161. Before him are Christopher Columbus (1451), Julius Caesar (-100), Michelangelo (1475), Archimedes (-287), Dante Alighieri (1265), and Augustus (-63). After him are Raphael (1483), Niccolò Machiavelli (1469), Pope John Paul I (1912), Commodus (161), Fibonacci (1170), and Giuseppe Verdi (1813).

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Among COMPOSERS In Italy

Among composers born in Italy, Antonio Vivaldi ranks 1. After him are Giuseppe Verdi (1813), Giacomo Puccini (1858), Gioachino Rossini (1792), Claudio Monteverdi (1567), Ennio Morricone (1928), Domenico Scarlatti (1685), Antonio Salieri (1750), Gaetano Donizetti (1797), Jean-Baptiste Lully (1632), Tomaso Albinoni (1671), and Guido of Arezzo (991).

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