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Duration: 12 minutes

Vivaldi was no stranger to composing concertos, especially for the violin. While his most famous violin concerto is, arguably, The Four Seasons, he also wrote about 230 others (of roughly 500 total concertos) for the instrument he had grown up learning to play. It’s an astounding number, especially considering he composed about 800 different works in his lifetime, but it’s not necessarily surprising. Not only was Vivaldi a great composer, he was also regarded as an excellent technical violinist, with German architect Johann Friedrich Armand von Uffenbach calling him “the famous composer and violinist” and writing in his diary that “Vivaldi played a solo accompaniment excellently, and at the conclusion he added a free fantasy, which absolutely astounded me, for it is hardly possible that anyone has ever played, or ever will play, in such a fashion.”