Classical Deep Dive
Classical Deep Dive: Vivaldi's 'Autumn'
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Antonio Vivaldi was used to defying the odds—born during an earthquake, stricken with a "tightness of the chest" that limited his employment and composing not for the wealthy initially, but for a girls' orchestra within the walls of an early 18th-Century orphanage. How did this composer's music, considered out of style at his death, become so popular that it was "Muzak'd to death" 200 years…