![]() And just like Mozart, he died a pauper in Vienna. Meanwhile Vivaldi is thought to have had a liaison with a young contralto, Anna Girò, for whom he wrote some of his most beautiful arias. He was afflicted all his life with a peculiar ailment, thought to be a form of asthma, but travelled widely despite this and when he met the Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI, it was reported that the monarch talked more to him in two weeks than to all his ministers in two years. As music teacher at the Pietà, he famously transformed its young women into musical virtuosi. Though an ordained priest, he was also an entre-preneur, making - and losing - a fortune across his 63 years. ![]() The red-haired son of a musician at the Basilica of San Marco, Vivaldi was among the most ground-breaking composers of his day, and an equally gifted violinist. ![]() Vivaldi's life history, as it is often told, would not seem out of place in the racier kind of historical novel.
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