You’ve probably heard Vivaldi’s “Spring” concerto (“La Primavera” in its original Italian) before. More than likely, you didn’t hear it on the radio or on Spotify or performed live, but you may have ...

A group of 14 young volunteers listened to the concertos while performing a challenging mental task. At the same time, scientists measured the electrical activity of their brains. Results showed that ...

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This piece originally appeared on Pacific Standard. The Mozart Effect—the notion that listening to certain pieces of classical music can boost one’s brainpower—was initially embraced, widely ...

Spring arrived at the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concerts this weekend — along with summer, autumn and winter — thanks to Antonio Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” concertos. The programmatic pieces, which ...

Although we associate Vivaldi mainly with Venice because he spent pretty much the first forty years of his life there, he did, inevitably, get itchy feet as he became older. As well as wanting to ...

It must have been an amazing day for the music registrar at the library in Turin. In 1926, a party from the local Salesian community – a mission of priests founded by St John Bosco in nearby ...