Venice Part 1

Photo's by kmwittig; October, 2007 in Venice Italy Website is a work in progress

Musical Composition: **Antonio Vivaldi "Autumn" The 3rd of The Four Seasons Concertos

The Violinist in the first image was standing adjacent to the entrance of La Scuola Grande di San Rocco My senses embraced the magnificence and Glory of the Art inside the School. Afterwards, outside in the the cool Autumn breeze I discovered this young man captivating the crowds with several baroque virtuosos. It is a moment well worth highliting

Note: ** Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (March 4, 1678 in Venice – Died July 27 or 28, 1741 in Vienna), Was nicknamed Il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was a Venetian priest and baroque music composer, as well as a famous virtuoso violinist; he was born and raised in the Republic of Venice. The Four Seasons, a series of four violin concertos, is his best known work and a highly popular Baroque music piece. One of the earliest uses of music was in the accompaniment of theatrical dance and story-telling. Frequently composers (and other accomplished Artists) created music (or Art) written to portray events, activities or moods such as pastoral scenes or storms. No musician was able to accomplish this with such precision to pictorial detail as Antonio Vivaldi in his Four Seasons concertos. The texture of each concerto is varied, resembling its respective season. When I first listened to these compositions, how familiar they were. Autumn, Concerto No.3 Autumn in F Major, RV 293 Allegro (Peasant Dance and Song)

• 1. The peasant celebrates the pleasure of the happy harvest with dances and songs; and inflamed by the liquor of Bacchus, many end their rejoicing with sleep.

Adagio molto (Sleeping Drunkards)

• 2. The mild pleasant air makes all abandon dance and song; this is the season that invites all to the sweet delights of peaceful sleep.

Allegro (The Hunt)

• 3. The hunters, at the break of dawn, set forth with horns, guns, and hounds. The animal flees, and they follow its tracks. Already frightened and tired by the great noise of guns and hounds, the wounded animal makes a weak attempt at fleeing, but is overcome and dies.