At that time the young master’s reputation began to be firmly established in his home town, and was gradually spreading abroad too, fostered by foreign visitors to Venice. However Vivaldi’s father, whose name appeared together with his son’s in a ‘visitors’ guide to Venice’ of 1713 as one of 1713 as one of the city’s best violinists, must have been more than a capable orchestral violinist, and was evidently very well equipped to guide his pupil through to the highest grades of violin-playing.įor his first years as violin teacher at the Ospedale della Pieta we must imagine him as having been industrious in his activity as a pedagogue and composer the institution’s administrators soon acknowledged his successes: in 1708 he was given a pay rise, and in 1711 Vivaldi stepped into a vacated position which held a secure yearly wage. ![]() Conversely there is also no support for the supposition that in addition to his stay in Rome Somis studied composition with Vivaldi in Venice. No proof could be given either for a period of study with Somis in Turin, such as has likewise been suggested. Besides, Corelli’s works, came out in print in Venice immediately after their appearance in Rome, and were thus well known there. However, no evidence has been found for any period of study with Corelli, although it would explain the strikingly long interval of three years that elapsed between his deacon-ship and his priesthood – one year being the minimum time prescribed by the Church. ![]() Vivaldi’s virtuoso playing of the violin as well as many stylistic echoes of Corelli, particularly in the early sonatas, have given rise to conjectures that he was actually a pupil of that master in Rome, where Somis studied with him in 1703.
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