L Inverno Vivaldi Violin Concerto

Violin Concerto in F Minor by Vivaldi In the year 1720 a composer named Antonio Vivaldi created what is known as one of his greatest master pieces: The Four Seasons. It’s a concerto about, as the title suggests, the four seasons of the year. He wrote them to accompany poems about the seasons. The section of the concerto known as Winter, or “L'inverno" is the piece this paper focuses on. “L’inverno” is played with strings. Meaning it has violins, violas, and cello. Accompanying these strings is a solo violinist whom the other strings follow in a homophonic fashion. The solo violinist begins and slowly the other strings join playing the same notes in the same rhythm. This creates a very powerful sound that if listened to at high volume can make your heart pound like a drum. Then near the end it fades, like the very end of a snow (or rain) storm. In 1720, the Baroque era in music, this piece differed from others written in that time in that …show more content…
As they walk the song “L’inverno” plays in the background. As I listened to the song I found that it actually goes along not with winter but with Hazel’s story. The song starts with a harpsicord (Hazel) and is joined with other strings to create a chaotic sound (cancer’s effect on Hazel). Once the chaos has been going on for a while there’s a part where the volume drops for a moment and then picks up (enter Augustus Waters). Then the solo violinist starts his or her solo (this time representing Hazels struggle to not fall for Augustus since her time on Earth is so short). It is soon accompanied by other violins and (possibly) a cello (Hazel finally submitting to her feelings for Augustus). The music then drops in volume as it did before and slowly pick up (representing the return of Augustus’ cancer). Then at the end the music fades into oblivion but this time not to signify winters end but the end (death) of Augustus and the end of the