Antonio Lucio Vivaldi, also known by the nickname Il Prete Rosso ("The Red Priest"), was an Italian composer, violinist, and priest, and a master of the Baroque instrumental concerto. Most of his life he lived and worked in his hometown of Venice, which at that time was a city of music. It is worth mentioning the Church of St. Mark with the richest musical tradition and numerous opera houses that were built during that period. In Venice, Ospedale della Pietà also operated, which cared for the incurably ill, the poor, and the elderly, and Vivaldi was employed there, writing numerous compositions for the orphanage, including for the recorder. He wrote instrumental pieces, with a focus on concertos. He mostly wrote for strings, but Opus 10 is the only collection that is not written for violin and is the first collection of six concertos for flute. Vivaldi has written about forty works for the recorder, including twelve concertos for solo recorder, strings, and basso continuo, but unfortunately, only five concertos have been preserved, two for alto recorder and three for soprano or sopranino recorder. Vivaldi has also written three sonatas for the recorder, and he used it in chamber works and concertos for multiple solo instruments, strings, and basso continuo, as well as in vocal works such as opera, serenade, and vocal sacred music. It's also worth mentioning the terms for flutes that Vivaldi used in his works and the theories regarding the flauto grosso and flautino. The composer's choice of tonality and the emotions it expresses also plays an important role in musical works, as Johann Mattheson discusses in his work Das neu-eröffnete Orchestre. In addition to Mattheson, other composers such as Charpentier and Schubart also described tonalities. In modern times, Vivaldi has also been the focus of attention for violinist Dr. J. Lupiáñez, who found an interesting Pisendel catalog in the Dresden archive, in which he discovered his ornamentation notes for Vivaldi's compositions. As J. J. Quantz wrote, the performance and ornamentation were crucial for the good effect of Italian music. Occasionally, the decorations were written by the composers, but mostly they were added by the performers according to their feelings and needs.
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