Antonio Vivaldi 🎻🎶🇮🇹

In occasione del 347º anniversario della nascita di Antonio Vivaldi, nato il 4 marzo 1678 Il 4 marzo, gli appassionati di musica classica di tutto il mondo celebrano l’anniversario della nascita di uno dei compositori più influenti dell’era barocca, Antonio Vivaldi. Nato a Venezia nel 1678, Vivaldi ha lasciato un’impronta indelebile nel mondo della musica classica con le sue composizioni innovative e le sue abilità … Continue reading Antonio Vivaldi 🎻🎶🇮🇹

Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇵🇹

Marcando o 344o aniversário do nascimento de Antonio Vivaldi em 4 de março de 1678 A música de Antonio Vivaldi está indissoluvelmente associada em minha mente a Veneza e suas vistas incríveis da lagoa. Na verdade, Vivaldi passou a maior parte de sua vida em Veneza, embora sua fama se espalhasse por toda a Europa durante sua vida e, em uma estranha reviravolta do destino, … Continue reading Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇵🇹

My favourite Baroque composers 🎹🏛🎶

The definition of Baroque music encompasses a rather long period of time in Western music, between 1600 and 1750, before the Renaissance music era and the Classical music age. During this phase composers developed specific roles for the various instruments and human voice in combination with each other. For example, this is the time opera was invented as a music form that encapsulates instrumental music … Continue reading My favourite Baroque composers 🎹🏛🎶

Mis compositores favoritos 🎹🏛🎶

En 1884 un joven Claude Debussy ganó el prestigioso premio de composición Prix de Rome, que supuso un programa de residencia en Villa Medici en Roma, donde este retrato fue pintado y se exhibe actualmente. El ambiente sofocante en la Academia Francesa de Roma fortalecía su resolución de seguir sus propios caminos para la expresión artística: “Estoy seguro de que el Instituto no lo aprobaría, … Continue reading Mis compositores favoritos 🎹🏛🎶

Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇬🇧

Marking the 343rd anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s birth on 4th of March 1678 Antonio Vivaldi’s music is indissolubly associated in my mind with Venice and its amazing views across the lagoon. Indeed Vivaldi spent most of his life in Venice, although his fame spread across Europe during his lifetime and, in a weird twist of fate, he died in Vienna in poverty in 1741 after … Continue reading Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇬🇧

Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇮🇹

Marking the 278th anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s death on 28/7/1741 🇬🇧Antonio Vivaldi’s music is indissolubly associated in my mind with Venice and its amazing views across the lagoon. Indeed Vivaldi spent most of his life in Venice, although his fame spread across Europe during his lifetime and, in a weird twist of fate, he died in Vienna in poverty in 1741 after he failed to … Continue reading Antonio Vivaldi 🖼🎶🇮🇹

I miei compositori preferiti 🎹🏛🎶

Frédérick Chopin è di gran lunga il musicista a cui mi sento più vicino, per sensibilità musicale ed espressione artistica. Ho adorato studiare e suonare le sue composizioni e mi piace ascoltare la mia collezione delle sue creazioni, interpretata da molti grandi pianisti, da Martha Argerich a Arthur Rubinstein, da Maurizio Pollini a Ivo Pogorelich. Antonio Vivaldi, il prete rosso, qui raffigurato con indosso abiti … Continue reading I miei compositori preferiti 🎹🏛🎶

My favourite composers 🎹🏛🎶

There are many composers I like best, among them Mozart, Vivaldi and Debussy, but Chopin is by far the musician I feel closer to, for musical sensibility and artistic expression. I loved studying and playing his compositions and I enjoy listening to my collection of his creations, interpreted by many great pianists, from Martha Argerich to Arthur Rubinstein, from Maurizio Pollini to Ivo Pogorelich. Antonio Vivaldi, … Continue reading My favourite composers 🎹🏛🎶