ANTONIO VIVALDI

Le Quattro Stagioni - THE FOUR SEASONS

L'inverno – Winter

Even the ones which aren't listening to the classical music, know Vivaldi .
For the ones, which would like of something more to learn about it, I am enclosing the note lower down.

The picture is my visual interpretation of the Concerto No. 4 in F minor - under the title Winter.


It is next personal interpretation
A winter is a season, when nature wrapped in the snow, is going to sleep.
It is a time of the calmness and silence as well as reflection, above passing.

Still until recently, winter evenings were being spent by fireplaces or hearths, and the patriarchs of a family told youngest, how it had been at one time, centuries ago.
The fashion for the more active lifestyle came recently.
There is in it nothing bad, but a bit of a loss, that we started living so fast and we don't already have time for family stories and shared evenings by the fireplace.
A winter evening, which you can see in my picture, is an evening from my childhood.
My grandmother has often told me fairy tales, it happened that the mum had played the piano...... and was after miraculously.

I have sometimes fixed my eyes on the fire, I hugged one of our cats....... and I dreamt.

There is already no such world, my daughter prefers the computer and the TV
But a few things didn't change themselves
Over the course of time, we started together with my husband appreciating, warmth of our fireplace and we often spend winter evenings by it.
And the music of Vivaldi, playing for the dance for flames.
Still like in my childhood, our cats are accompanying us - guards of our home bonfire and our best friends.

And therefore....... I like the winter

Paintings on walls these are of course Polish accents.
The one hanging over the fireplace is a “Death of Pulaski under Savannah” - painted through Stanislaw Batowski. As the curiosity I can add that the artist painted two copies of this work. One is found in Poland, at the museum , however second copy is in the White House into Washington.

However the other image it "portrait of Stańczyk” painted by Jan Matejko, one of the biggest Polish painters.



CS2, 127 layers, 7 working hours

Not commercial only,

I am thanking:

=liam-stock for violinist lost in thought [link]

*Peace-of-Art for the fireplace [link]
, candlesticks [link] and the clock [link]

=Shoofly-Stock for beautiful background [link]

~Yazzes-stock for the cat [link]

*lexidh-stock also for the cat [link]

=Mehrunnisa-stock for the armchair [link]

=JLStock for curtains to the window [link]

~waterweed-stock for the carpet [link]

~Jinz-stock for the view behind the window [link]

*RoxStock [link] and *Adaae-stock [link] for frames

~JINXD-PARADOX [link] and =supreme-neko [link] for the snow

~emera [link] and ~suztv [link] for frost on window panes


I give my permission to to submit and display my work in club's gallery.
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Born in Venice on March 4th, 1678, Vivaldi was employed for most of his working life by the Ospedale della Pietà. Often termed an "orphanage", this Ospedale was in fact a home for the female offspring of noblemen and their numerous dalliances with their mistresses. The Ospedale was thus well endowed by the "anonymous" fathers; its furnishings bordered on the opulent, the young ladies were well looked-after, and the musical standards among the highest in Venice. Most of Vivaldi's concerti were intended for performance with his many talented pupils. He was also deeply involved with opera, both in composition and staging, mainly at Venice's Teatro Sant' Angelo.
At the end of 1717 Vivaldi moved to Mantua for two years in order to take up his post as Chamber Capellmeister at the court of Landgrave Philips van Hessen-Darmstadt. His task there was to provide operas, cantatas, and perhaps concert music, too. Here he made the acquaintance of the singer Anna Giraud (or Giro), who moved in to live with him, and they stayed together until Vivaldi's death.
Vivaldi also wrote works on commission from foreign rulers, such as the French king, Louis XV - the serenade La Sena festeggiante (Festival on the Seine), for example. This work cannot be dated precisely, but it was certainly written after 1720. In Rome Vivaldi found a patron in the person of Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, a great music lover, who earlier had been the patron of Arcangelo Corelli. And if we can believe Vivaldi himself, the Pope asked him to come and play the violin for him at a private audience.
Despite his stay in Rome and other cities, Vivaldi remained in the service of the Ospedale della Pietà, which nominated him "Maestro di concerti." He was required only to send two concertos per month to Venice (transport costs were to the account of the client) for which he received a ducat per concerto. His presence was never required. He also remained director of the Teatro Sant' Angelo.
In 1725 the publication Il Cimento dell' Armenia e dell'invenzione (The trial of harmony and invention), opus 8, appeared in Amsterdam. This consisted of twelve concertos, seven of which were descriptive: The Four Seasons, Storm at Sea, Pleasure and The Hunt. Vivaldi transformed the tradition of descriptive music into a typically Italian musical style with its unmistakable timbre in which the strings play a major role.
These concertos were enormously successful, particularly in France. In the second half of the 18th century there even appeared some remarkable adaptations of the Spring concerto: Michel Corrette (1709-1795) based his motet Laudate Dominum de coelis of 1765 on this concerto and, in 1775, Jean-Jacques Rousseau reworked it into a version for solo flute. "Spring" was also a firm favorite of King Louis XV, who would order it to be performed at the most unexpected moments, and Vivaldi received various commissions for further compositions from the court at Versailles.
In 1738 Vivaldi was in Amsterdam where he conducted a festive opening concert for the 100th Anniversary of the Schouwburg Theater. Returning to Venice, which was at that time suffering a severe economic downturn, he resigned from the Ospedale in 1740, planning to move to Vienna under the patronage of his admirer Charles VI. His stay in Vienna was to be shortlived however, for he died on July 28th 1741 "of internal fire" (probably the asthmatic bronchitis from which he suffered all his life) and, like Mozart fifty years later, received a modest burial. Anna Giraud returned to Venice, where she died in 1750.

THE FOUR SEASONS:
1: Concerto No.1 in E Major, RV 269, "SPRING"
Allegro / Largo / Allegro (Pastorale dance)

2: Concerto No.2 in g minor, RV 315, "SUMMER"
Allegro non molto - Allegro / Adagio Presto Adagio / Presto (Summer Storm)

3: Concerto No.3 in F Major, RV 293, "AUTUMN"
Allegro (Peasant Dance and Song) / Adagio molto (Sleeping Drunkards) / Allegro (The Hunt)

4: Concerto No.4 in f minor, RV 297, "WINTER"
Allegro non molto / Largo / Allegro