The composer of The Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi, could die right after his birth. He was born the seven-month.
Vivaldi was a priest but didn’t celebrate the mass, because of his very poor health. He became a violin teacher at an orphanage in Venice. During this time he wrote his numerous concertos for various instruments. Not many people know that he Vivaldi wrote more than 45 operas, but almost all of them are forgotten.
The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is one of the most famous and popular classical music, I think. It is played in concert halls and on streets. More than 120 recordings of this work exist. God knows how many transcriptions of the Four Seasons there are in the world. Here you can see the forth part The Winter, good known by its great first part.
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