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INSPIRATION/Winter INSPIRATION/Winter To shiver icily in the freezing dark in the teeth of a cruel wind, to stamp your feet all the time, so chilled that your teeth chatter; To remain in quiet contentment by the fireside while outside the rain pours in torrents; to walk on the ice, with slow steps in fear of falling, advance with care. Then to step forth strongly, fall to the ground, and again run boldly on the ice until it cracks and breaks; To listen as from the iron portals rush winds from south and north, all the winds in contest; such is winter, such the joy it brings. THE FOUR SEASONS by: Antonio Vivaldi The original edition was dedicated to Count Venceslas von Merzin of a noble Bohemian family, one member of which would be Haydn's patron in the 1750's Most illustrious Sir, While thinking of the many years in which I have had the great good fortune to serve your illustrious Grace as Maestro di Musica in Italy, I was embarrassed when I considered that until now I have not given you any proof of the profound veneration I have for you; therefore I have decided to engrave the present volume and to submit it to the feet of Your Illustrious Grace; I beg you not to be surprised if among these few and feeble concertos, Your Illustrious Grace will find the Four Seasons, already long since under the indulgent and generous eye of Your Grace, but may you believe me that I took great pride in publishing them, because they are in any case the same, but enlarged, apart from the Sonnets, with a detailed explanation of everything in them and I am sure they will seem new to you. Therefore I continue to ask that Your Illustrious Grace look with benevolence and indulgence on my feeble efforts, because I fear to offend the inborn kindness which Your Illustrious Grace has shown towards them for some time. The great understanding for music possessed by Your Illustrious Grace and the high standards of your brilliant virtuoso orchestra allow me to rest assured that my poor efforts "now in your esteemed hands" will find the echo they merit. Otherwise it remains for me to implore your Grace to continue your most generous patronage of one who has the honour to subscribe himself. Your Grace's most humble, devoted and obedient servant. Antonio Vivaldi "TALK" on icq !!! Try it !!! HOME Super Duper Yooper Please come back and visit again! Like this Page ? Please email a friend ! song title: "Seasons/WINTER" by Vivaldi THIS SITE IS POWERED BY THE ICQ COMMUNICATION PANELYou can ICQ-Page the owner of this web page as well as other users or you can EmailExpress them right from here with no additional software. Your message will be instantly delivered.If the user is online, the message will pop-up on his/her screen if s/he is offline it will be stored and forwarded to him/her as soon as s/he connects to the Internet.Installing the ICQ client will enable you to know if your contacts are online and communicate directly with them,join chat rooms and receive ICQ paging and EmailExpress directly to your screen.Use of the Communication Panel is subject to the Terms and Conditions This Trivia Chatters Home Pages site is owned by Yooper. Want to join the Trivia Chatters Home Pages? | Previous 5 Sites | Previous | Next | Next 5 Sites | Random Site | List Sites | yoops
To shiver icily in the freezing dark in the teeth of a cruel wind, to stamp your feet all the time, so chilled that your teeth chatter;
To remain in quiet contentment by the fireside while outside the rain pours in torrents; to walk on the ice, with slow steps in fear of falling, advance with care.
Then to step forth strongly, fall to the ground, and again run boldly on the ice until it cracks and breaks;
To listen as from the iron portals rush winds from south and north, all the winds in contest; such is winter, such the joy it brings.
THE FOUR SEASONS by: Antonio Vivaldi The original edition was dedicated to Count Venceslas von Merzin of a noble Bohemian family, one member of which would be Haydn's patron in the 1750's
Most illustrious Sir, While thinking of the many years in which I have had the great good fortune to serve your illustrious Grace as Maestro di Musica in Italy, I was embarrassed when I considered that until now I have not given you any proof of the profound veneration I have for you; therefore I have decided to engrave the present volume and to submit it to the feet of Your Illustrious Grace; I beg you not to be surprised if among these few and feeble concertos, Your Illustrious Grace will find the Four Seasons, already long since under the indulgent and generous eye of Your Grace, but may you believe me that I took great pride in publishing them, because they are in any case the same, but enlarged, apart from the Sonnets, with a detailed explanation of everything in them and I am sure they will seem new to you.
Therefore I continue to ask that Your Illustrious Grace look with benevolence and indulgence on my feeble efforts, because I fear to offend the inborn kindness which Your Illustrious Grace has shown towards them for some time.
The great understanding for music possessed by Your Illustrious Grace and the high standards of your brilliant virtuoso orchestra allow me to rest assured that my poor efforts "now in your esteemed hands" will find the echo they merit. Otherwise it remains for me to implore your Grace to continue your most generous patronage of one who has the honour to subscribe himself. Your Grace's most humble, devoted and obedient servant.
Antonio Vivaldi
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