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