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(1678-1741), Italian composer and violinist, was the most influential of his age. He was born March 4, 1678, in Venice, and was trained by his father, a violinist at Saint Mark's Cathedral. He was ordained a priest in 1703 and began teaching that year at the Ospedale della Pietà, a conservatory for orphaned girls. He was associated with th ...

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... of his operas. In about 1740 he accepted a position at the court of Emperor Charles VI in Vienna. Vivaldi's works include more than 500 concertos, more than 70 sonatas, about 45 operas and also religious music, including the oratorio Juditha Triumphans in 1716, the Gloria in D in1708, masses, and motets. His instrumental sonatas are more traditional than his concertos, and his religious music reflects the operatic style of the era. His most famous and younger contemporary, J. S. Bach, studied h ...