Even after stepping down from his liturgical duties, Vivaldi never stopped being a priest, White said. She insisted that his priesthood was likely an essential element of his music. We won't rent or sell your information, and you can unsubscribe at any time.īut when she first started digging into her research on Vivaldi and putting the information into context, "then everything made sense," she said, because "research is a matter of fact, it's not a matter of opinion, and it's not a matter of ideas, it's fact."
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When you subscribe to the CNA UPDATE, we'll send you a daily email with links to the news you need and, occasionally, breaking news.Īs part of this free service you may receive occasional offers from us at EWTN News and EWTN. We provide news about the Church and the world, as seen through the teachings of the Catholic Church. People often make assumptions about the past or judge by their opinions, telling others that "'it must be like this' or 'so and so said that,'" White said, adding that when this happens "you go from bad to worse."Īt Catholic News Agency, our team is committed to reporting the truth with courage, integrity, and fidelity to our faith. The hospital was also overseen by several governors, so had there been abuse, Vivaldi would have been kicked out right away, "so that doesn't add up," White said. Not only would Vivaldi have never been welcomed back in 1723, but many of the girls who remained in the orchestra stayed until they were 70 or even 80 years old. These rumors, she said, "not only are they not true, they're impossible." She also addressed rumors that Vivaldi had abused the choir girls as the reason he was kicked off the Pieta faculty in 1715. She pointed to rumors alleging that he had been kicked out of the priesthood or even excommunicated, saying they "are so ignorant and so stupid," because if one actually looks to the facts, the rumors are "not proven." It would have been his own decision, a decision of nobody but himself, and he also gave up a good salary." Vatican reassures Ukrainian Catholics that pope did not intend to praise Russian imperialism Read articleĪll that is known about the mysterious illness comes from the letter Vivaldi wrote asking for the dispensation, in which he referred to it as a "tightness of the chest."Īccording to White, "it would have been very hard for Vivaldi to give up saying Mass. It opened to the public May 13 at the Diocesan Museum, and will stay open during 2018. Mark's Basilica in Venice, provides attendees with an indoor video-mapping show done with immersive HD images, surround sound and scent special effects such as scent and wind. Not only has she published a book, "Antonio Vivaldi: A Life in Documents," as the fruit of her research, but she was a consultant for a new display on his life called "Viva Vivaldi: The Four Seasons Mystery." White, who left a thriving greeting card company in England and moved to Venice to pursue an increasing interest in researching Vivaldi's life, has become an expert and point of reference on the musician. In listening to Vivaldi, it's obvious that he was a very faith-filled man, she said, "you hear it in his music, you listen to it." Bach wasn't a priest, Mozart wasn't a priest, nor was Beethoven, but Vivaldi was. "That's what makes him stand out among anybody. "It's timely, a priest wrote it," and it's meshed with the modern style of the day – a combination of two things that are essentially "polls apart," she said. Jimi Hendrix Vivaldi you've heard in the Four Seasons it's the most bizarre piece of music."
"Vivaldi the priest, deeply spiritual, comes out in his music. It's a combination altogether "bizarre," she said.
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