According to numerous testimonies of famous figures of the time, the skill of the orchestral girls of the hospital knew no precedent: 'The exceptional music is that of the hospitals where the' putte 'sing like angels and play the violin, the organ, the oboe, cello, bassoon in short, there is no tool that scares them. Inside the facility, the orphaned children of the city are assisted: while the boys learned a trade before leaving the hospital at the age of fifteen, the girls received a musical education and then aspired to become choir teachers. The maestro was hired as a violin teacher at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà, the most prestigious women's hospital in Venice. In the following years, Antonio Vivaldi's fame as a violinist grew dramatically. During the first months of 1703 he was proclaimed a priest with the nickname of Red Priest because of the color of his hair. In 1693 he began his ecclesiastical career, first attending the church of San Geminiano, then that of San Giovanni in Oleo but one constant of him never abandoned him during his training: music. Antonio demonstrates a great talent for the violin since he was a child, at only 12 years old he was admitted among the musicians of the Doge's Chapel under the teaching of Giovanni Legrenzi. Son of the violinist Giovanni Battista, he grew up with a passion for music: his father was in fact hired as a musician at the Basilica of San Marco before becoming a violin teacher at the Mendicanti Hospital.

Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, he was baptized in the church of San Giovanni in Bragora, near his presumed home.

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