Antonio Vivaldi - Composer Biography Video Lesson for Kids
This FUN popsicle stick theater video lesson from the MakingMusicFun.net academy features Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi. Watch the composer video lesson with your kids or students. Explore the supporting resources, including the FREE printable study guide, the FREE Meet Vivaldi word search, and the FREE “Meet the Composer” Job Application worksheet.
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Print the FREE Meet Antonio Vivaldi Study Guide, Word Search, and Composer Job Application Worksheet
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Meet Vivaldi | Free Study Guide
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“Meet the Composer” Job Application Worksheet
“Spring” and “Winter” Sonnets
Some scholars think that Vivaldi’s Four Seasons was inspired by sonnets that he wrote himself. Armand D’Angour, a British scholar and musician, translated the sonnets in 2017.
SPRING
Springtime has now arrived, and full of cheer The birds greet her return with festive song, And streams caressed by breaths of western breezes With gentle murmuration flow along. Casting a dark mantle over heaven, Come thunder, lightning, harbingers of spring: They die away to silence, and the songbirds Take up their tuneful strain once more and sing. Now in the lovely meadow, filled with flowers, Under the branches rustling overhead The goat-herd sleeps, his faithful dog beside him. Led by the festive sound of rustic bagpipes, The nymphs and shepherds lightly dance and sing Beneath the brilliant canopy of spring.
WINTER
In icy snow we tremble from the cold, Caught by the bristling wind with its harsh breath; We run and stamp our feet at every moment, With teeth a-chatter, cold as very death; Or by the fire we sit content and happy While outside pours down a torrential squall, And tread across the ice with careful footsteps, Cautious from fear that we might trip and fall; We turn abruptly, slip, and crash down earthwards, Then rising, hasten on across the ice In case the surface cracks and breaks apart. Through bolted doors we hear the winds competing, Sirocco, North Wind, all the winds at war: It’s winter, but it brings us joy for sure.
To read the entire translation of Vivaldi’s Four Sonnets, visit the site of Armand D’Angour.
Play the Soundtrack from the Meet Vivaldi Composer Biography Video Lesson
The Meet Vivaldi video features sheet music from MakingMusicFun.net. Visit the links below to print the piano sheet music:
Spring (Four Seasons) for Easy Piano Sheet Music
Autumn (Four Seasons) for Easy Piano Sheet Music/Level
Check Out Antonio Vivaldi Trivia
There was an earthquake that shook Venice the day Vivaldi was born.
J.S. Bach was an admirer of Vivaldi’s music.
Vivaldi composed 500 concertos, 90 sonatas, 46 operas, and many sacred choral works.
He was a very good violin player.
Some of Vivaldi’s music is lost or hidden, but new pieces are discovered all of the time!
Asthma prevented Vivaldi from mastering wind instruments.