The scenes range from the chirp of different birds in spring, to summer storms, from fleeing foxes in autumn, to teeth chattering and rain pouring down in winter. His music is thus freer, more fluid and able to better describe the story it wishes to narrate. The composition aims at astounding the listener with unusual melodies, created through increased rhythm and higher harmonic contrast. Not only is the feeling of astonishment conveyed by his spectacular description of nature, but also by his musical language.

Vivaldi’s Four Seasons are a symbol of his era. As a consequence, a new attitude of awe and wonder towards the power of nature emerged. Galileo’s discoveries brought about a shift in the position of man, who was no longer at the center of the cosmos. Baroque art has a dramatic conception of the relationship between man and nature and between man and the universe. Bernini itself represented them in its fine sculptures. The whole Baroque epoch showed a deep interest in the amazing natural changes determined by the seasons. But none were to do so in such precise pictorial detail as Antonio Vivaldi in his Four Seasons concerto! Music representing the moods of the four seasons has always been popular, and baroque composers such as Werner and Fischer among others produced cycles of concertos representing the fours seasons.

Antonio vivaldi the four seasons