MUL-3604 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Antonio Vivaldi, Equal Temperament, Recitative
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Introduction: entire life served as a musician, compositional output connected to biography, three large periods of composition, bach the organist (1708-1717, bach the mentor (1717-1723, bach the cantor (1723-1750) Early life: family of professional musicians, began career at 18 (1703, took organ position at arnstadt, early career determined by, organ performance, composition. Identified as leading organist in germany: worked at the court of the duke of weimar, which is where he encountered italian music, learned it by imitation (vivaldi) Bach the mentor: court of coethen (1717-1723: worked as kapellmesiter, writing secular cantatas, chamber works, orchestral works, keyboard music written to teach pupils, pio(cid:374)ee(cid:396)ed use of (cid:862)e(cid:395)ual te(cid:373)pe(cid:396)ed(cid:863) keyboa(cid:396)d, wrote collections of pieces that utilized every key.
