Judging by the simplicity of his funeral it would seem that he fell on hard times towards the end of his life. In 1740 he travelled to Vienna to attend the production of one of his many operas, but fell ill and died before the performance. His music came to be regarded as old fashioned, and his career gradually went into decline. But the popularity of his work did not survive his years.

By the 1720s he was sending out instrumental music to customers throughout Europe. He began to gain an international reputation from around 1713, when he started to compose operas, travelling to cities in Italy and elsewhere to direct their performances. He was director of music there for a number of years, and he stayed on the staff for the rest of his life, teaching his students, and composing oratorios and concertos for weekly concerts. The following year he began teaching the violin at the Ospedale della Pietà, a conservatory for orphaned girls. He was ordained into the church in 1703, and it was at this time that, because of his red hair, he acquired the name ll Prete Rosso, the Red Priest. Xxxxx Vivaldi was born in Venice and received musical instruction from his father, a violinist at St. He was, himself, an accomplished violinist, and he conducted many of his own works. However, during his working life he wrote no less than 500 concertos, 23 symphonies, 75 sonatas and over 40 operas, as well as much religious music.

XxxxxThe Italian Baroque composer Antonio Vivaldi is best known today for his descriptive piece The Four Seasons, first performed in 1725 for violin and orchestra.

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