Domine Deus, Agnus Dei (alto and chorus).The wonderfully sunny nature of the Gloria, with its distinctive melodies and rhythms, is characteristic of all of Vivaldi’s music, giving it an immediate and universal appeal. This, his most famous choral piece, presents the traditional Gloria from the Latin Mass in twelve varied cantata-like sections. Vivaldi, a priest, music teacher and virtuoso violinist, composed many sacred works for the Ospedale, where he spent most of his career, as well as hundreds of instrumental concertos to be played by the girls’ orchestra. The Ospedale prided itself on the quality of its musical education and the excellence of its choir and orchestra. Vivaldi composed this Gloria in Venice, probably in 1715, for the choir of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage for girls (or more probably a home, generously endowed by the girls’ ‘anonymous’ fathers, for the illegitimate daughters of Venetian noblemen and their mistresses). For two sopranos, alto, chorus and orchestra
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