Vivaldi

"He was famous and feted during his lifetime, and his music was performed and plagiarized throughout Europe. But soon after his death, or even a little before, he passed into a state of neglect that seemed final. His works disappeared from concert program, and even in his own country his name was omitted from the gazettes, histories, and biographical dictionaries. A century elapsed. Then in Germany came the rediscovery of Johann Sebastian Bach, who had …

…bias towards music, all taking lessons on string instruments from Vivaldi and others. "It should not be surprising that Vivaldi's purely instrumental music also bears traces of the haste that marks his regular working regime. By going through the inventories of his symphonies and concertos, it can be established that he was apt to use the same largo twice, and to revert to the same tutti in three concertos, changing only the solos" (Hatch, 29) **infamous**