The details of Vivaldi's life are surprisingly sketchy. While Beethoven wrote seven concertos, Brahms four and Bach, Haydn, Handel and Mozart at most a few dozen, Vivaldi wrote over 500 (and more are being uncovered each year)! When you're that prolific, some recycling and lapsing into formula is inevitable. Although he wrote 39 operas, 73 sonatas and loads of religious music, Vivaldi is best known for his concertos. Yet, with Antonio Vivaldi, there's at least a grain of truth in this disparaging barb. As with any worthy pursuit, familiarity breeds a fascination with subtlety and detail completely lost on causal observers. Of course, that's just ignorance – the same could (and often is) said about Bach, the blues or any other style one knows nothing about. Of all the aspersions hurled against classical music, the one that makes the least sense is that it all sounds the same.
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