Solo part, piano accompaniment and performance notes. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out cello part). Schirmer (HL.50485535)Ħ Sonatas For Cello And Piano (Cello and Piano). Solo part, piano reduction, bowings, fingerings, introductory text and performance notes. The Four Seasons, Complete (Violin & Piano Reduction) (Four Concertos for Violin and Orchestra). A four-hour playlist of Vivaldi works, all played on period instruments and performed by early music groups.Some lovely scores of Vivaldi’s work from various publishers of different periods, including several handwritten ones from the International Music Score Library Project.More free music to listen to, plus a short bio to read: last.fm-Vivaldi.Wikipedia entry with audio selections: Wikipedia: Antonio Vivaldi.He died in Vienna, too sick and too poor to return to Venice.

At the time of his death, his fortunes had reached a low ebb.

On the move: Vivaldi spent most of the 1730s producing his operas in various cities.

8, Il cimento dell’ armonia e dell’ inventione (The contest between harmony and invention, 1725), contains his famous Four Seasons. He wrote at least 140 and published some of them.

Publishing wizard: Between 17, Vivaldi was contracted to supply two concertos per month to the Pietà hospital.

Meanwhile, he got into opera as a theater manager and a composer.

Opera and church: Vivaldi wrote many religious works for the Pietà orphanage, culminating in his second oratorio, Juditha triumphans (Judith triumphant, 1716).

His next publication, La stravaganza, another set of 12 concertos, confirmed his reputation.

Turning point, 1711: Vivaldi’s set of 12 concertos titled L’estro armonico (Harmonic invention), became a best-seller, possibly the most influential music publication of the early 18th century.

Visitors would attend its church services because of the music and the concerts afterward.

First gig, 1703-1716: Appointed director of the string orchestra at Pio Ospedale della Pietà (Pious Hospital of Mercy), a prestigious girls’ orphanage in Venice famous for its musical training program.Theological training: Vivaldi started as a priest in Venice, but in 1706 he was kicked out for preferring music to Mass.

Vivaldi life