Giovanni Battista Vivaldi

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Giovanni Battista Vivaldi (* 1655 in Brescia ; † 14. May 1736 in Venice ) was a violinist of the Baroque and the father of Antonio Vivaldi .

Around 1665, after the death of his father, Giovanni Battista Vivaldi moved with his mother and siblings from Brescia to Venice, where he first worked as a barber and later became a violinist. In 1676 he married the daughter of a tailor, Camilla Calicchio , with whom he had ten children, including the eldest son Antonio. The oldest of the girls, Gabriela Antonia, died in infancy.

In addition to his work as a barber, he devoted himself more and more to the violin. In 1685 he became a member of the Chapel of San Marco with the nickname "Rosso" (probably because of his red hair, which he passed on to his son). In the same year he was a founding member of the musicians' association Sovvegno dei musicisti di Santa Cecilia .

He was very well recognized as a musician, his name can be found in the guides of Vincenzo Coronelli for years next to his famous son, whom he promoted and supported. On September 30, 1729 he received permission to leave his office at San Marco for a year in order to accompany his son to Germany. He also worked as a copyist for his son and for Georg Philipp Telemann .

He may also have worked as a composer. The opera La fedeltà sfortunata , performed under the pseudonym Giovanni Battista Rossi, is attributed to him (1688).

The violinist Martino Bitti was one of his students.

literature

  • Karl Heller: Antonio Vivaldi. The Red Priest of Venice . Amadeus Press, Portland 1991, pp. 39-42.
  • Michael Talbot : The Vivaldi Compendium . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2011, pp. 195-196.
  • Gastone Vio: Venetian musicians in the circle around Giovanni Battista Vivaldi. Nuovi studi vivaldiani: Edizione e cronologia critica delle opere. Series: Studi di musica veneta: Quaderni vivaldiani, No. 4 Published by: Firenze, Italy: Leo S. Olschki, 1988. ISBN 978-88-222-3625-8 ; 88-222-3625-4, pp. 689-702.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Talbot: The Vivaldi Compendium . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2011, p. 3
  2. ^ Michael Talbot: Giovanni Battista Vivaldi copies music by Telemann: New light on the genesis of Antonio Vivaldi's chamber concertos. In: Studi vivaldiani: Rivista annuale dell'Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi della Fondazione Giorgio Cini. 2015, 55-72.
personal data
SURNAME Vivaldi, Giovanni Battista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian violinist
DATE OF BIRTH 1655
PLACE OF BIRTH Brescia
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 1736
Place of death Venice