View Full Version : Habby Birthday, Antonio!!
Jim Garber
Mar-04-2010, 8:20am
332 years young! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi)
Jim Garber
Mar-04-2010, 8:21am
Whoops! great typist, I am not!
journeybear
Mar-04-2010, 8:53am
'Sokay. You cannot imagine how many times I stared, puzzled, at "bandolim" before I discovered it was a different instrument, spelled correctly - B, N, M being located so close together on the keyboard. ;)
The silver lining - this thread is SO easy to find via search. :)
Anyway, mille grazie Signore Vivaldi for the mandolin concerti - and plenty else besides. It does seem he took time to write a concerto for nearly every instrument in the baroque orchestra. Really very nice of him. Practical, too, I suppose - one way to boost sheet music sales. ;)
Plamen Ivanov
Mar-04-2010, 9:57am
I noticed the Google search page with those violins... Why do i remember that A. Vivaldi's birthday was actually unknown?! Anybody else has the same memories or is it just me?
journeybear
Mar-04-2010, 10:42am
Jim's source is wikipedia, not 100% reliable (though usually not far off), so if you wish to remain skeptical, you are entitled. ;)
That said, a quick google turns up a lot of references citing this date.
btrott
Mar-04-2010, 11:19am
Jim's source is wikipedia, not 100% reliable (though usually not far off), so if you wish to remain skeptical, you are entitled. ;)
That said, a quick google turns up a lot of references citing this date.
I just checked the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, and it gives Vivaldi's b-day as March 4, 1678. So celebrate away!
Barry
SternART
Mar-04-2010, 12:03pm
Woo-hoo........party on......:mandosmiley:
KristinEliza
Mar-04-2010, 4:59pm
332 years young! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Vivaldi)
he doesn't look a day over 230!
Plamen Ivanov
Mar-04-2010, 11:57pm
OK, it now seems that there is no doubt about his birthday. But it wasn't always so. I checked my old Vivaldi records and on some of them (or even on most of them) it stays (1678? - 1741). I guess the question mark means that it was not 100% clear that he was actually born in 1678.
May be if you check out your old Vivaldi records - LPs, audio casettes, etc. you will also notice a question mark behind the year 1678.
I made also a google search and i found some information that he was born between 1675 and 1678. May be there are recent findings proving that he was born on 4 March 1678. Anyway it doesn't really matter. But my memory serves me well. :-)
Best,
Plamen