This book includes illustrations of eighteenth-century Venice and several newly translated letters, thoroughly evoking the style of the time and revealing some of the more personal aspects of Vivaldi’s life. Landon rediscovers the composer in this accessible and musically informed biography while presenting documentation of the musician’s life discovered after the Baroque revival in the 1930s. Very little has been written on Vivaldi for the nonspecialist, especially in English.
Most of his music-concertos, sonatas, operas, and sacral music-has been published only recently. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons, and the majority of his already published work had fallen into obscurity by the time of his death in poverty in 1741. Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one.
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