Composers

I have been doing a project on different composers. Mainley around the Brahms period.

Antonio Vivaldi was ordained a priest at the age of 25, but he then quit mass saying, "his chest was too tight." During those years he was taught to play by his father. He also had a rather bad case of asthma which was way he quit mass but many believed it was because he was forced to become a priest.

Vivaldi wrote around 500 concertos, along with a wealth of opera and religious themed pieces. Half of Vivaldi's music was lost and the other half was found in a chest sometime in the 1920's. Like Mozart, Vivaldi died in poverty in 1714, and was buried in an unmarked grave.

That is my small piece of interesting stuff...