His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world. 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. Legal disclaimer: The music you download here is watermarked and. Each is based on a 'sonnet' (possibly written by Vivaldi himself), that elucidated what it was in the.

They were striking for the time: modern, virtuosic and energetic, they used music to evoke a scene and tell a story. 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. Arranged for Violin and Organ by Nicolae Bogdan. Vivaldi's The Four Seasons are four violin concertos composed in Venice, Italy, at the height of the Baroque era in 1720. 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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