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Studio MIR

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The federal agency for 
culture and cinematography

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Present

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Tales of the old piano

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I guard the eternal secrets of the museum of Music

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Violins

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Oh, I hear familiar sounds:
Rippling water, splashing, Venice...

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No cat could ever forget life in the middle of water

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Antonio Vivaldi

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The Venetian carnival, several months a year:
People relaxing and working in masks.

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Music, dancing and laughing,
Freedom, happiness and joy...everywhere.

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and one spring, on March the 4th 1678,

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Antonio Vivaldi was born 
to the family of Giovanni,

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violinist and hairdresser 
and his wife Camilla.

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He was born so frail that 
the midwives rushed to baptize him.

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Mm. Antonio Vivaldi: Four seasons - The spring

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In Venice at that time, with the hairdressers
You could get a haircut, shave, first aid,...

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you could read and hear all the gossip
or play violin while waiting your turn.

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Violins were stacked in the corner
Like glossy magazines are today.

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He, doggy, what are you doing here?!

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Get away!...Scram!

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Of the five Vivaldi children 
only Antonio became a musician.

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By the time he was ten Antonio could substitute 
for his father in the orchestra of st. Marks Cathedral.

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Later both father and son were listed in a 
guidebook of Venice as the city's greatest violinists

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Antonio became a priest.

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Rumor had it he was so impassioned by music, 
he would disappear from the pulpit 
and write music in the margins of the bible.

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Asthma interfered with his ability to say mass.

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As a virtuoso violinist he was invited to teach in
one of those new fangled schools called conservatories

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The ospedale della pieta was actually an orphanage

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Children were orphaned or abandoned 
through a special little window in the wall

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Above the window was a sign that said:
"It is a sin to abandon children without great need."

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What frightful models those Venetians had.
After carnival they would give birth like cats.

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In this orphanage or conservatory they 
used to teach music to the abandoned girls

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Antonio was given a nickname: The red-haired priest

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He designed this vault with special acoustics 
so his music would sound better.

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Summer is another concerto 
from his four seasons cycle.

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Opera...

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...was the most popular entertainment in Venice.

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The shows lasted sometimes for several days.

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People would cook in the theater, 
receive guests, play cards during the show...

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Some 50 Vivaldi opera's are known today.
He was his own impresario.

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He cast and hired the singers, he sketched and
designed the costumes, sets and decorations

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he even sold the tickets.

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But in his life as in his music autumn came:

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Antonio Vivaldi - The four seasons - Autumn.

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The clerical authorities of Italy condemned him for...

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frivolity and unconventional use 
of his violin: He lengthened the neck!

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they were highly suspicious that he 
could compose music freely and perfectly.

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Never having to make changes and when he traveled
he was accompanied by a singer and a nun

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who were sisters and so he was 
forbidden to put on any new operas,

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and finally, he was exiled from Venice.

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Antonio Vivaldi - The four seasons - Winter

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Winter is his farewell to his beloved Venice,
snowing and frozen.

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Vivaldi was completely forgotten, 
both by his home town and the whole world.

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Only after 200 years in 1926

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in an obscure Italian monastery

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several volumes of his compositions were found.

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and now we know him as one of 
the greatest composers of the barock-era.

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That's all for now.

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See you later!

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Written by Irina Margolin
Director, animator Oxana Cherkasova
Artist Boris Vishev

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Editor Vladimir Maslakovich
Animation Aleksei Karayev, Olga Chernova
Irina Kryuchkova, Yulia Cherkasova

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Sound Lola Bukaeva, Ivan Voronin, Lana Kovalevskaya
Assistants G Liakhovetskyi, E Sula, K Kopieva
Production managers D Vorobiov, L Tomko

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project direction Alexander Zukov
Musical theme intro Kusma Bodrov
Scholarly consultant & researcher E B Dolinskaya

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Thanks to The Moscow PI Tchaikovsky State Conservatory
Glinka museum of musical culture & Nina Meleshina
Valentin Olshvang, Boris Pavlov, Alexandra Buchmasn

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& Kutzya the cat

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Narration Evgenyi Mironov
General manager Irina Margolina

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Subtitles by Eus after 
the English narration by Timothy Dalton

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The End
2007, studio Mir, Moscow