Withdrew from priesthood from chest pains which was claimed to be asthma, while In charge of teaching music, keeping the instruments in good condition, and to In 1703 he became maestro di violino atĪ home for abandoned and orphaned children called the Pio Ospedale della Pietà. Together they toured Venice playing theĮntered into priesthood around the local churches.

Giovanni Battista Vivaldi who was a professional violinist.

In his early years he was taught how to play the violin by his father, The most known composers of the Baroque period. He wrote over 500 pieces and became one of His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.Vivaldi was born March 4th, 1678 in Venice, Italy and was the oldest of nine children. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother.

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