Antonio Vivaldi

Born in 1678 in Venice, Antonio Vivaldi lived to become a virtual incarnation of Italian Baroque Music which no other composer of his time could match.

Vivaldi was a virtuoso violinist and prolific maestro with a massive output of which almost 500 violin concerts survived. He became renowned for his concertos in Baroque style, becoming a highly authoritative trailblazer in music form, style and pattern.