Not only would Vivaldi have never been welcomed back in 1723, but many of the girls who remained in the orchestra stayed until they were 70 or even 80 years old. These rumors, she said, 'not only are they not true, they're impossible.' She also addressed rumors that Vivaldi had abused the choir girls as the reason he was kicked off the Pieta faculty in 1715. She pointed to rumors alleging that he had been kicked out of the priesthood or even excommunicated, saying they 'are so ignorant and so stupid,' because if one actually looks to the facts, the rumors are 'not proven.' It would have been his own decision, a decision of nobody but himself, and he also gave up a good salary.' It opened to the public May 13 at the Diocesan Museum, and will stay open during 2018.įor centuries this Catholic family has orchestrated Britain’s most Anglican royal events Read articleĪll that is known about the mysterious illness comes from the letter Vivaldi wrote asking for the dispensation, in which he referred to it as a 'tightness of the chest.'Īccording to White, 'it would have been very hard for Vivaldi to give up saying Mass. Mark's Basilica in Venice, provides attendees with an indoor video-mapping show done with immersive HD images, surround sound and scent special effects such as scent and wind. Not only has she published a book, 'Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents,' as the fruit of her research, but she was a consultant for a new display on his life called 'Viva Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Mystery.' White, who left a thriving greeting card company in England and moved to Venice to pursue an increasing interest in researching Vivaldi's life, has become an expert and point of reference on the musician. In listening to Vivaldi, it's obvious that he was a very faith-filled man, she said, 'you hear it in his music, you listen to it.' Bach wasn't a priest, Mozart wasn't a priest, nor was Beethoven, but Vivaldi was. 'That's what makes him stand out among anybody. 'It's timely, a priest wrote it,' and it's meshed with the modern style of the day – a combination of two things that are essentially 'polls apart,' she said. Jimi Hendrix Vivaldi you've heard in the Four Seasons it's the most bizarre piece of music.'

'Vivaldi the priest, deeply spiritual, comes out in his music. It's a combination altogether 'bizarre,' she said.

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