The Story Behind Vivaldi's Four Seasons

The Seasons were first published in Amsterdam in 1725 as the first four of a set of twelve concertos by Vivaldi with the overall title Il cimento dell' armonia ...

However, The Four Seasons was a musical score created to honor four descriptive sonnets about each season (four sonnets in all). No one is ...

The Four Seasons (Italian: Le quattro stagioni) is a group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives musical expression to a season of the year . These were composed around 1718–1720, when Vivaldi was the court

The concertos were influenced by a set of four sonnets crafted about summer, winter, autumn, and spring.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons is characterized by the fast-slow-fast pattern of the movements, the concerto form, and program music. It is also an example of ...

Four violin concertos, each with three movements evoking the colours, sensations and moods of Earth's varied seasons with a rare viscerality.

The Four Seasons, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year.

“The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi is truly a musical tableaux, which tells the cycle and the alternation of the seasons, each with its own characteristics. The ...

These four violin concertos are based on a set of Italian sonnets, possibly written by Vivaldi himself.

Explore our guide to Vivaldi's best-known work 'The Four Seasons' – a set of four radical violin concertos depicting the seasons of the year.