The Four Seasons is by far Vivaldi's most famous piece. Each season has a concerto that describes it in the music. A concerto is a piece of music that is like a conversation between the orchestra and a solo instrument or a small solo group. Vivaldi LOVED writing concertos. He wrote more than 500 of them! Concertos have three movements or parts. The first is fast, the second slow and the third fast again. Vivaldi based The Four Seasons on some sonnets or poems that he wrote. Click here to see the the text of the poems.

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There have been so many different performances of The Four Seasons that we have created a video channel dedicated to performances and animations. They are by order of season and the list of videos is below.