youtube/watch?v=TKthRw4KjEg you have heard this a hundred times now learn about it. Written by Vivaldi, A Baroque composer, the first movement follows the Ritornello form. An overall theme is played by the whole orchestra or tutti and then solos interrupt the main theme. Written about sping. The first violin solo is meant to represent birds. The second solo to represent rushing streams. And the last solo mean to represent spring thunderstorms. Notice how after that solo the ritornello changes to a minor key. Vivaldi was very popular during his time but nearly forgotten after he died until the baroque revival of the 1950s where he gained prominence again as one the quintessential Baroque composers along with Bach and Handel. If you make it to the second movement it is about a herdsman sleeping in his field. The last movement is also in Ritornello form and is meant to encompass the glory of spring
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