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Antonio Vivaldi - Wikipedia  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. ... His best-known work is a series of violin concertos known as The Four Seasons. ... Vivaldi became maestro di violino (master of violin) at an orphanage called ... In early 18th-century Venice, opera was the most popular musical...
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Antonio Vivaldi - Priest, Educator, Composer - Biography.com  Feb 3, 2015 ... Antonio Vivaldi was a 17th and 18th century composer who's ... of works, he became renowned for his concertos in Baroque style, ... Early Life ... At the age of 25, Antonio Vivaldi was named master of violin at the ... orphans received instruction -- the boys in trades and the girls in music. ... Access Date.
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Vivaldi's Girls - Cloud 9 Internet  Vivaldi's Girls: Music Therapy in 18th century Venice. La Chiesa di Vivaldi - The Church of Vivaldi in Venice. ... It can mean hospital, of course, but it also connotes "sanitarium," "orphanage," or any number of therapeutic institutions of that era. ... Another aspect of his work can be seen on a plaque outside the church that...
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Program Notes - Carnegie Hall  Nov 18, 2014 ... Concerto for Two Violins, Strings, and Continuo in D Minor, BWV ... In his later years, Bach was often to be seen at Zimmermann's coffeehouse ... About the Work ... concertos in A minor and E major (which also date from the early 1730s) are ... girls' orphanage-conservatory where he served as violin master.
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Antonio Vivaldi: Venetian Virtuoso - Baroque Music Page  Vilvaldi's life, work, travels, teaching in the Venice Ospedale. ... Antonio Vivaldi was a virtuoso violinist, a virtuoso composer  at least in terms of quantity  and ... A Venetian all his life, travelling but always returning, Vivaldi epitomizes Italian ... During the first half of the 1700s, baroque music adopted the Italian forms of the...
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Prone to Violins - InstantEncore  Joseph Achron was a Russian (Lithuanian) violinist and composer born on May 13, 1886 (Pablo Sarasate was already 42 years old and Joseph Joachim was 55.) He first ... Michael Rabin was an American violinist born on May 2, 1931. He began ... He made his debut with the San Francisco Symphony in 1923  at age 7.
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jeopardy/1589_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  THE VENETIAN | Born the son of actors in 1725, this legendary Venetian lover originally planned a career in the priesthood | Giacomo Casanova. right: Robin.
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Mozart's original instruments - Stiftung Mozarteum Salzburg  Mozart's childhood violin was built by the luthier and violin-maker Andreas .... At the same time the original scroll was replaced by one taken from a German or Austrian ... Anton Walter was born in 1752 in Neuhausen auf den Fildern near Stuttgart ... the fortepiano before 1785 as a concert instrument and played it regularly in...
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Pinchas Zukerman - Wikipedia  Pinchas Zukerman is an Israeli violinist, violist and conductor, widely regarded as one of the ... Life and career[edit]. Born in Tel Aviv, to Yehuda and Miriam Lieberman Zukerman, Zukerman began his musical studies at age four, on the recorder. His father then taught him clarinet, and he picked up the violin at age eight.
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Classical Italy with WFMT 2016 MASTER FINAL - Earthbound ...  of Italy's great composers that they hold most dear. ... hometown of Busseto, a concert featuring works by Vivaldi, and a tour of the .... About Vivaldi: Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, the son of a violinist employed ... of St. Mark's. ... found only here. ... singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of.
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Antonio Vivaldi - Wikipedia  Antonio Lucio Vivaldi was an Italian Baroque composer, virtuoso violinist, teacher and cleric. ... In 1693, at the age of fifteen, he began studying to become a priest. He was ordained in 1703, aged 25, and was soon nicknamed il Prete Rosso, "The .... During this period Vivaldi wrote the Four Seasons, four violin concertos...
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Prone to Violins - InstantEncore  He was born on October 27, 1782, in Genoa, Italy (Beethoven was 12 years old.) ... with the violin that seemed humanly impossible, he was rumored to be in league with the Devil. ... It is said that Sivori, his pupil, played for him one last time (at Paganini's home in ... From age 12, he began his career as a traveling virtuoso.
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DVOK'S NEW WORLD SYMPHONY | Paducah Symphony ...  He began studying with Ferdinando Provesi in 1824 after he moved to Busseto, ... He composed his first opera, Oberto while in Milan in 1839. Verdi wrote three of his most popular operas between 1851-1853: Il trovatore, Rigoletto, ... In his youth, he studied the violin, followed by the bassoon, piano, and tuba, before finally...
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Cremona Violins: Innovative and Artistic Instruments  Apr 27, 2016 ... Modern violin making seems to have started with Andrea Amati (1507 ... is credited as being the most famous instrument maker of the family. ... her son, Charles IX of France, ordered 38 instruments from the Italian Amati. ... reshaping of the violin that Andrea Amati started back in the 1500s. .... Popular Cities.
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Edvard Grieg biography - 8notes.com  Popular works inlcude the instrumental music to Peer Gynt ... In the summer of 1858, Grieg met the legendary Norwegian violinist Ole Bull, ... Bull noticed the 15-year-old boy's talent and persuaded his parents to allow him to go to Leipzig to study. ... The next year he finished his studies in Leipzig, and held his first concert in...
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a 1732 Bergonzi violin - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette  Oct 24, 2013 ... The instrument was crafted 281 years ago by Carlo Bergonzi in ... Noah Bendix-Balgley with his Carlo Bergonzi-created violin ... It's new only to him, though. ... Nigel Kennedy and Margot MacGibbon, but its journey before that is a mystery. ... well-preserved Stradivarius that sold for $16 million at an auction...
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Guarneri - Wikipedia  The Guarneri is the family name of a group of distinguished luthiers from Cremona in Italy in the ... His first original labels from Venice date from 1730. His instruments are rare and as highly prized as those of his father and uncle. ... The Lord Wilton Guarneri del Ges violin made in 1742 was owned by Yehudi Menuhin.
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Biography | antonin-dvorak.cz  In music he far surpassed everyone else, so his father entrusted him to the care of ... guests at village dances, and it wasn't long before he gave his first solo appearance as a ... It was during this time that Dvorak wrote his first compositions, short polkas. ... Thus, in the autumn of 1857, 16-year-old Dvorak moved to Prague.
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Prone to Violins: April 2009  Apr 29, 2009 ... He began his career as a child prodigy, having started on the violin at age 3. ... Florian ZaBach was an American violinist, conductor, and arranger born on ... He made his U.S. debut with the Boston Symphony on October 27, 1911. ... violinist and composer born on April 8, 1692 (J.S. Bach was 7 years old.)...
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Full text of "A popular history of the art of music, from the earliest ...  SCHOOLS 148 - 159 ... I have made free use of all the standard his- tories  those of Fetis, ... Harp and Musicians of 20th Dy- nasty 32 Lvres"Found in Tombs 33 Women, ..... This has been the general course of the progress, from the earliest times ...... In the British Museum there is a manuscript supposed to have been begun...
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Jeopary Questions page 1917 - POETRY - TriviaBistro.com  FRANCOPHILE UNDER "M": She was just 15 when she moved from Vienna to Versailles in 1770 for an arranged marriage  POETRY: She wrote "Some keep...