According to IMDb, there have been at least 100 different films and television shows that have used Vivaldi's Four Seasons in some way.
It is not uncommon for the conductor or director to read the sonnet aloud to the audience before performing the concerto's movement.King Louis XV took a liking to 'Spring' and ordered it to be performed whenever he pleased. Vivaldi's Four Seasons especially appealed to the French.As you listen to each one, you'll be amazed at how accurately Vivaldi musically portrays each sonnet without losing the overall quality and balance of the work. In the following sections, we'll provide you with YouTube links to each concerto and the text of its corresponding sonnet. They were written about 1720 and were published in 1725 (Amsterdam), together with eight additional violin concerti, as Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention. It is believed that Antonio Vivaldi himself wrote the twelve individual sonnets to go along with each movement of the Four Seasons. The Four Seasons, Italian Le quattro stagioni, group of four violin concerti by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, each of which gives a musical expression to a season of the year. It is a set of 4 violin concertos that propose an early. Program music wasn't a technique that was typically employed during the Baroque period (in fact, the term "program music" wasn't invented until the romantic period), so Vivaldi's work is quite unique. Antonio Vivaldi composed The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni in its original Italian) in 1723. When composers write a musical narrative set to a line of text, a poem, or any other form of writing (which is typically published within the concert's program notes), that is said to be program music. Since its publication, musicologists consider Vivaldi's Four Seasons to be among the boldest program music ever written during the Baroque period. The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) consists of four concerti ( Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter), each one in a distinct form containing three movements with tempos in the following order: fast-slow-fast. Inspired by landscape paintings by Italian artist Marco Ricci, Vivaldi composed the Four Seasons roughly between 17, and published them in Amsterdam in 1725, in a set of twelve concerti entitled Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione ( The Test of Harmony and Invention).
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