Antonio Vivaldi e 'La primavera' (Lezione del prof. Antonio Guida)

Hello everyone, in this video lesson we will talk about Antonio Vivaldi, one of the great exponents of the Baroque, and we will analyze one of his pieces. Vivaldi was in the water in Venice in 1678 and died in Vienna in 1741. He was appointed violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, a charitable institution for the care

of orphaned girls where they mainly carried out musical activities. Vivaldi wrote most of his compositions precisely for these girls who performed every Sunday as instrumentalists or singers. Here we can see some images of the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. These are the Sunday concerts where the audience arrived and the girls performed. These are some old

prints depicting the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice at the time of Vivaldi. In fact, orphanages were also called hospitals from the verb ospitale (to host). As guests have the same root, therefore, the hospitals at the time of Vivaldi are not like the ones we mean today, even if the hospital to care for the sick,

to be clear, has the same root as ospizio and obviously refers to the verb ospitale. and they were buildings annexed to churches and managed by religious people. Their original purpose was therefore the shelter and protection of poor and abandoned children, which was provided for by public charity. Over time, the main teaching of the

hospitals, that is, of these structures, became music and later these structures were called conservatories. Today the conservatory is an institution of higher musical education. Even today, conservatories are no longer connected to religious institutions but are institutions in which an exclusively musical education is partly provided and therefore, as I said before, Vivaldi had a high profile. He