Two centuries later, Astor Piazzolla faced another sort of argument about propriety. All this extra-musical symbolism was not to everyone’s taste, and the ones who found it most distasteful were the musicians most opposed to Vivaldian flashiness in the first place. There are also descriptive directions to the players that are not in the sonnets. Vivaldi’s “Seasons” are program music, with virtually every passage describing an event that is set out in a sonnet accompanying each of the concerti. Vivaldi’s Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter were the first four of the 12 concerti in his Opus 8, The Contest between Harmony and Invention, in 1725.
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