Which post does that refer to?
The good Scarlatti.
It’s too long for a band name, but someone definitely needs to write that book. 
Just one book? Sounds like an encyclopedia, like the group of composers who were bipolar.
So it seems nobody agrees with me :\ Oh well. Maybe Vivaldi is just overplayed and unavoidable, like when you just want to sit down with a good book and the Mormons come to your door to tell you about Jesus and you don’t want to know about Jesus and the fact that people who want to tell you about Jesus are everywhere makes you really hate Jesus even there is nothing wrong with Jesus, really.
When Great Pansies of the Composing World comes out, I will be the first in line to buy a copy.
I think we can all agree that the best Bach is P.D.Q. Bach, who was always Bach in the nick of time.
Sorry.
P.D.Q. Bach! I have a t-shirt from one of his concerts! 
Any composer who somehow manages to use kazoos, garden hoses, and circus clowns in a classical music concert… while keeping a straight face… gets top scores in my book. 
That said, the problem with Vivaldi’s Four Seasons is that people are allways using the WRONG SEASON. Spring is overplayed, let it go. Winter, especially the remix of it I found online somewhere (wish I could figure out who did that one), is the season to listen to!
dances around his room singing “Winter from the Four Seasons”
Eh, I sang Vivaldi’s Gloria just a few weeks back. If he didn’t write more religious music, it’s possibly 'cos he wasn’t fit to tie Bach’s or Handel’s shoelaces.
It is a bit trite, but I do like Vivaldi better than Brush Script. Neither holds a candle to a true quality script like Edwardian Script
Darn it, I don’t have Vivaldi (the font) on my computer …
There’s an old saying…Vivaldi didn’t write 512 concertos - he wrote the same concerto 512 times. Listen to The Four Seasons and pick a Bassoon concerto and then you’ve heard it all. I recently acquired a 40 CD set called The Vivaldi Masterworks, and honestly, a lot of it blends together. That’s not to say that it isn’t enjoyable to listen to…but keep in mind that most of his music he was writing to be performed exactly ONCE, and that kind of doesn’t motivate somebody to write a masterpiece…
As for Mozart (I own a recording of every piece of surviving music he’s written - 170 total cds!), whenever I start to listen to something and think “so what, I could do better” I have to remember that what I was listening to was written when he was 9 YEARS OLD!
As far as I’m concerned, the biggest pansy in the history of classical music is Debussy. I never understood how that guy became so popular - all of his music is so damn boring!
I kind of think of Haydn as the Isaac Asimov of the music world: he cranked out tons of compositions, all of them intelligent and competently written, some of them great fun if you like that sort of thing, with flashes of cleverness, playfulness, and humor; but he wrote prose, not poetry, and didn’t plumb great depths of emotion.
I’m pretty sure you mean Vanessa Mae’s Storm.
Nice metaphor.
This reinforces my earlier comment, that the music gets played in a boring way. It is very possible to find a true unique character to any good piece of Vivaldi (sure there’s a lot of dross, but that goes for Bach and Beethoven and anyone else prolific).
What have you listened to? If La Mer bores you, I worry!
Vivaldi is a famous self plagiarist but I gotta tell ya. His Winter, done right, is damn sexy. Just sayin’.
I’m really pissed off, because I can’t remember the guy’s name. :mad:
I’ll bet none of you have heard Vivaldi played by Il Giardino Armonico.
That website crashed my browser o.O What is it?
Undoubtedly, part of the key to achieving long-term respect in the classical arena is to not be too prolific.
Debussy’s stuff isn’t bad, if you don’t mind music that sounds like it was run through a kitchen blender too many times.