Antonio Vivaldi - Quiz
Antonio Vivaldi
  • 1. Which choreographer collaborated with Vivaldi on his later operas in Venice?
A) Pietro Metastasio
B) Carlo Goldoni
C) Giovanni Gallo
D) Apostolo Zeno
  • 2. How old was Vivaldi when he composed the serenata Gloria e Imeneo?
A) 48
B) 63
C) 50
D) 45
  • 3. Who commissioned the serenata Gloria e Imeneo in 1725?
A) The King of France
B) The Viennese saddlemaker
C) Emperor Charles VI
D) The French ambassador to Venice
  • 4. Which royal princesses were celebrated in Vivaldi's La Sena festeggiante?
A) Charlotte and Sophie
B) Marie Antoinette and Maria Theresa
C) Henriette and Louise Élisabeth
D) Anne and Elizabeth
  • 5. Vivaldi's Opus 9, La cetra, was dedicated to whom?
A) Emperor Charles VI
B) Giovanni Gallo
C) Louis XV
D) The French ambassador
  • 6. Where did Vivaldi meet Emperor Charles VI in 1728?
A) Venice
B) Prague
C) Trieste
D) Vienna
  • 7. What title did Emperor Charles VI bestow upon Vivaldi?
A) Knight
B) Duke
C) Baron
D) Count
  • 8. Which opera by Vivaldi garnered six revivals after its 1730 presentation?
A) L'Olimpiade
B) La Griselda
C) Catone in Utica
D) Farnace
  • 9. Who wrote the libretto for L'Olimpiade?
A) Carlo Goldoni
B) Pietro Metastasio
C) Apostolo Zeno
D) Giovanni Gallo
  • 10. Who rewrote the libretto for La Griselda?
A) Apostolo Zeno
B) Carlo Goldoni
C) Pietro Metastasio
D) François Morellon de La Cave
  • 11. In 1730, Vivaldi traveled to Vienna and Prague accompanied by whom?
A) Carlo Goldoni
B) His father
C) Anna Girò
D) Pietro Metastasio
  • 12. What was the main reason Vivaldi sold his manuscripts at low prices in his later years?
A) To finance his migration to Vienna
B) To fund a European tour
C) To pay off gambling debts
D) To buy a new house
  • 13. Where might Vivaldi have stopped on his way to Vienna?
A) Paris
B) Rome
C) Graz
D) Bologna
  • 14. Near which theater did Vivaldi take up residence in Vienna?
A) TU Wien
B) St. Stephen's Cathedral
C) Bürgerspital-Gottesacker
D) Kärntnertortheater
  • 15. What happened shortly after Vivaldi arrived in Vienna that left him without patronage?
A) The Kärntnertortheater closed
B) Charles VI died
C) He fell ill
D) His music was banned
  • 16. What was the official cause of Vivaldi's death?
A) Internal infection
B) Old age
C) Heart failure
D) Pneumonia
  • 17. In whose house did Vivaldi die in Vienna?
A) A royal palace
B) A hospital
C) The house of Carlo Goldoni
D) The widow of a saddlemaker
  • 18. Where was Vivaldi's funeral held?
A) Bürgerspital-Gottesacker
B) St Charles Church
C) St. Stephen's Cathedral
D) TU Wien chapel
  • 19. Which famous composer was in the cathedral choir during Vivaldi's funeral?
A) Antonio Salieri
B) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
C) Ludwig van Beethoven
D) Joseph Haydn
  • 20. Where was Vivaldi originally buried?
A) TU Wien university
B) Bürgerspital-Gottesacker cemetery
C) The grounds of the Hotel Sacher
D) St. Stephen's Cathedral
  • 21. What is built on part of the site where Vivaldi's Viennese house once stood?
A) St Charles Church
B) The Kärntnertortheater
C) Hotel Sacher
D) TU Wien university
  • 22. Who created the 1725 engraving of Vivaldi?
A) François Morellon de La Cave
B) Carlo Goldoni
C) Ghezzi
D) Apostolo Zeno
  • 23. Where is the oil painting of Vivaldi currently kept?
A) The Vatican Library
B) International Museum and Library of Music of Bologna
C) The Louvre
D) St. Stephen's Cathedral
  • 24. Who drew the caricature of Vivaldi in 1723?
A) Metastasio
B) La Cave
C) Goldoni
D) Ghezzi
  • 25. When was Vivaldi's work rediscovered?
A) 17th century
B) 19th century
C) 20th century
D) 18th century
  • 26. When was Vivaldi offered the position in Mantua?
A) 1725 or 1726
B) 1710 or 1711
C) 1721 or 1722
D) 1717 or 1718
  • 27. Which opera did Vivaldi produce in Mantua?
A) Il Giustino
B) Tito Manlio
C) La Silvia
D) L'adorazione delli tre re magi
  • 28. What is the status of the oratorio L'adorazione delli tre re magi al bambino Gesù today?
A) It consists of twelve concertos
B) It is lost
C) It was published in Amsterdam
D) It is his most famous work
  • 29. Which city did Vivaldi move to in 1722 to introduce a new style of opera?
A) Milan
B) Rome
C) Mantua
D) Venice
  • 30. Which Pope invited Vivaldi to play for him?
A) Bentivoglio
B) Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt
C) Michel-Charles Le Cène
D) Benedict XIII
  • 31. How many operas did Vivaldi produce in Venice in 1725?
A) Nine
B) Twelve
C) Four
D) Three
  • 32. The Four Seasons is a set of concertos for which instrument?
A) Violin
B) Flute
C) Cello
D) Harpsichord
  • 33. Which opera provided motifs for the 'Spring' concerto?
A) Tito Manlio
B) Il Giustino
C) L'adorazione delli tre re magi
D) La Silvia
  • 34. What is the probable inspiration for the Four Seasons concertos?
A) The city of Venice
B) The countryside around Mantua
C) The opera houses of Milan
D) The papal court in Rome
  • 35. What accompanies each concerto in the Four Seasons?
A) A letter to a patron
B) A sonnet
C) A painting
D) A diary entry
  • 36. What is the title of the collection that contains the Four Seasons?
A) Tito Manlio
B) L'adorazione delli tre re magi
C) Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione
D) La Silvia
  • 37. Who published the Opus 8 collection in Amsterdam?
A) Michel-Charles Le Cène
B) Anna Tessieri Girò
C) Prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt
D) Bentivoglio
  • 38. Who was Vivaldi's favorite prima donna and student?
A) La Silvia
B) Bentivoglio
C) Paolina
D) Anna Tessieri Girò
  • 39. Who was Anna Tessieri Girò's older half-sister?
A) Paolina
B) Le Cène
C) Silvia
D) Tito
  • 40. To whom did Vivaldi write a letter denying a romantic relationship with Girò?
A) Michel-Charles Le Cène
B) Pope Benedict XIII
C) Prince Philip
D) Bentivoglio
  • 41. In what year did Vivaldi write the letter denying romantic involvement with Girò?
A) 1722
B) 1717
C) 1737
D) 1725
  • 42. Where was Vivaldi's first opera, Ottone in villa, performed?
A) Prague
B) Vicenza
C) Rome
D) Venice
  • 43. Which theater did Vivaldi become the impresario of in 1714?
A) La Fenice
B) Teatro San Angelo
C) Pietà
D) Garzerie Theater
  • 44. What is the anagram ALDIVIVA used for in the pamphlet Il teatro alla moda?
A) A rival composer
B) The name of a theater
C) A secret meeting location
D) A. Vivaldi
  • 45. How many operas did Vivaldi claim to have written in a 1737 letter?
A) 100
B) 50
C) 94
D) 25
  • 46. Who wrote the pamphlet attacking Vivaldi's operatic style?
A) Benedetto Marcello
B) Baldassare Galuppi
C) Alessandro Scarlatti
D) George Frederic Handel
  • 47. Approximately how many of Vivaldi's operas have been discovered?
A) 94
B) 50
C) 11
D) 25
  • 48. Which composer is mentioned in the text as having greater prominence than Vivaldi?
A) George Frederic Handel
B) Johann Sebastian Bach
C) Claudio Monteverdi
D) Antonio Salieri
  • 49. In what year was the oratorio Juditha triumphans composed?
A) 1715
B) 1737
C) 1716
D) 1713
  • 50. What was Antonio Vivaldi's primary nationality?
A) Austrian
B) French
C) Italian
D) German
  • 51. At what age did Vivaldi begin studying for the Catholic priesthood?
A) 21
B) 18
C) 15
D) 25
  • 52. What nickname was given to Vivaldi due to the color of his hair?
A) The Baroque Genius
B) The Venetian Virtuoso
C) The Red Priest
D) The Italian Master
  • 53. What was Vivaldi's father's profession before becoming a professional violinist?
A) Architect
B) Priest
C) Merchant
D) Barber
  • 54. What was the name of the orphanage where Vivaldi worked for many years?
A) Ospedale di Venezia
B) Ospedale di Santa Cecilia
C) Ospedale di San Marco
D) Ospedale della Pietà
  • 55. What position did Vivaldi hold at the Ospedale della Pietà starting in 1716?
A) Maestro de' concerti
B) Teacher of viola all'inglese
C) Maestro di violino
D) Maestro di coro
  • 56. Which collection of concertos by Vivaldi was published in Amsterdam in 1711?
A) La stravaganza
B) L'estro armonico
C) Opus 1
D) Opus 2
  • 57. What is the reason Vivaldi was given dispensation to no longer say public Masses?
A) Travel commitments
B) Lack of interest
C) Conflict with the church
D) A health problem
  • 58. In what year did Vivaldi die?
A) 1709
B) 1711
C) 1768
D) 1741
  • 59. Who created the RV catalog for Vivaldi's works?
A) Nicolas Chédeville
B) Peter Ryom
C) Antonio Vivaldi
D) Johann Sebastian Bach
  • 60. In what year were 'The Four Seasons' composed?
A) 1703
B) 1713
C) 1733
D) 1723
  • 61. The Four Seasons are part of a set of how many concertos?
A) 50
B) 4
C) 90
D) 12
  • 62. How many concertos in total did Vivaldi write?
A) Less than 100
B) More than 500
C) More than 50
D) Exactly 350
  • 63. How many of Vivaldi's concertos are for solo instrument and strings?
A) About 40
B) About 350
C) About 230
D) About 500
  • 64. How many of the solo concertos are for the violin?
A) 350
B) 30
C) 40
D) 230
  • 65. Which of the following is NOT listed as an instrument for Vivaldi's solo concertos?
A) Bassoon
B) Mandolin
C) Piano
D) Viola d'amore
  • 66. Approximately how many concertos did Vivaldi write for two instruments and strings?
A) Forty
B) Fifty
C) Thirty
D) Twenty
  • 67. Approximately how many concertos did Vivaldi write for three or more instruments and strings?
A) Twenty
B) Thirty
C) Fifty
D) Forty
  • 68. Which of these is a sacred choral work by Vivaldi?
A) La cetra
B) Gloria
C) La stravaganza
D) Il Pastor Fido
  • 69. What is the RV number for Vivaldi's Gloria?
A) RV 621
B) RV 610
C) RV 589
D) RV 608
  • 70. Vivaldi wrote approximately how many sonatas?
A) 40
B) 50
C) 90
D) 500
  • 71. Which composer was an influence on Vivaldi’s early liturgical work Laetatus sum?
A) Legrenzi
B) Arcangelo Corelli
C) Johann Sebastian Bach
D) Fritz Kreisler
  • 72. Who helped revive Vivaldi's reputation by passing off his own Concerto in C as a Vivaldi work?
A) Alfredo Casella
B) Louis Kaufman
C) Fritz Kreisler
D) Arturo Toscanini
  • 73. What is the name of the opera rediscovered in 2002 by Steffen Voss?
A) Gloria
B) l'Olimpiade
C) Motezuma
D) Argippo
  • 74. In what year did Ondřej Macek rediscover the opera Argippo?
A) 1939
B) 2006
C) 2003
D) 2002
  • 75. Which scholar identified the psalm settings Nisi Dominus and Dixit Dominus?
A) Marc Pincherle
B) Michael Talbot
C) Janice Stockigt
D) Steffen Voss
  • 76. Who organized the historic Vivaldi Week in 1939?
A) Antonio Fanna
B) Ezra Pound
C) Gian Francesco Malipiero
D) Alfredo Casella
  • 77. How many concertos were found in the 1926 discovery of bound volumes?
A) 300
B) 100
C) 15
D) 19
  • 78. What was the occupation of Antonio Fanna?
A) Danish musicologist
B) Australian researcher
C) Venetian businessman
D) French scholar
  • 79. In the mid-20th century, which group drove the revival of Vivaldi using CE/Fanna numbering?
A) Sing-Akademie
B) Paris Opera Ballet
C) Gli Accademici di Milano
D) Hofmusici
  • 80. Which choreographer won the Prix Benois de la Danse for The Seasons' Canon?
A) Crystal Pite
B) Piero Santi
C) George Balanchine
D) Marc Pincherle
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