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Images for "Discovering the Re-Discovering of Antonio Vivaldi" by Miles Fish
All photographs ©MilesFish.com

Photograph #1: VIVALDI's TURIN MANUSCRIPTS. A volume of Vivaldi Turin Manuscripts. (PHOTO:MilesFish.com)

Photograph #2: ENTRANCE. Italian National Library in turin (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino (PHOTO:MilesFish.com)

Photograph #3: VIVALDI'S GLORIA (RV 589) AUTOGRAPH. Vivaldi’s Gloria (RV 589), composed around 1713 in Venice, was lost for over 200 years. Alfredo Casella gave the Gloria its re-discovery debut in 1939 Siena, Italy, but it would be almost two decades before RV 589 would be published in an authentic original edition (Casella edited and arranged the Gloria for the 1939 performance). It was first performed in the U.S. at the First Festival of Baroque Choral Music at New York’s Brooklyn College in 1957 and Vivaldi’s Gloria made up for a couple of centuries of lost time by rapidly becoming one of the foundations of the choral repertory. (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #4: Vivaldi manuscript "GLORIA" title page. (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #5: RICORDI 1918. Pre-Discovery Vivaldi publication Note: Both birth and death dates are incorrect.(Accedemia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #13: INSIDE THE OPENING COVER OF THE FOÀ COLLECTION. In memory of his deceased infant son Mavro Foà, Robert Foà purchased the manuscripts form the San Carlo Monastery and donated them to Turin’s National Library. (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #7: VENICE. Venice today appears much like Venice appeared in Vivaldi’s day. (photographed from the top of the bell tower Piazza San Marco) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #8: BASILICA SAN MARCO IN VENICE. Vivaldi’s first violin teacher was his father, Giovanni Battista, a musician barber (a common occupation pairing) who remained his lifelong mentor. Antonio probably made his first public performance on Christmas Eve, 1696 at Venice’s Basilica San Marco alongside his dad. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #9: INSTITUTO SANTA MARIA DELLA PIETÀ TODAY. The Pietà, founded in 1346, is a home mostly for abandoned minors. Vivaldi was hired in 1703 when the Pietà also served as a music conservatory for the Pietà occupants which included young women as well as older women who had grown up there an chose to stay. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #10: VIVALDI's STAIRCASE. This staircase is one of a few architectural structures that remain from Vivaldi’s teaching days at the Pietà. It’s on the site of what is now the Metropole Hotel. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #11: CANAL ENTRANCE TODAY. The canal entrance to what was once Vivaldi’s Pietà where he taught and composed on and off for nearly 40 years. The Canal entrance is now the entrance to the Metropole Hotel. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #12: BIBLIOTECA NAZIONALE UNIVERSITARIA DI TORINO. The present site, above, was opened in 1973, the facade is from the 1700s. The library was founded in 1720 as the Royal University Library and renamed the National Library after Italian unification in 1872. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #13: INSIDE THE OPENING COVER OF THE GIORDANO COLLECTION. In memory of his deceased infant son Renzo Giordano, Filippo Giordano purchased the manuscripts from Giuseppe Maria Durazzo and donated them to Turin’s National Library. The combined Giordano and the Foà collections became known as the Turin Manuscripts. (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #14: COLLECTIONS DATA. Library Data for “Collection Foà” and “Collection Giordany.” (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #15: DRESDEN COURT--ZWINGER PALACE PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #16: DRESDEN COURT--ZWINGER PALACE Construction of the Palace began in 1709 and continued to be enhanced under the leadership of Augustus the Strong in the 1720s and 1730s. The Palace, along with all of Dresden, was reduced to rubble during the three days of fire bombings near the end of WWII. Photos above are of the reconstructed Palace that was mostly completed by the late 1960s. However, post WWII rebuilding and reconstruction in Dresden continues into the 21 Century. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #17: "FLORENCE ON THE ELBE“ Dresden, Germany. Vivaldi manuscripts were discovered in a forgotten cabinet at the Hofkirche (Catholic Court Cathedral) almost a century and a half after they were written for Dresden Court Concertmaster Johann Georg Pisendell. The Cathedral is located on the far right of the photograph above. Destroyed during the WWII fire bombings, it was rebuilt in the 1980s. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #18: VIVALDI's DIXIGT DOMINUS. …And the search continues. Vivaldi’s Dixit was Discovered at Dresden’s SLUB in 2005 by Janice Stockigt of Melbourne University. The work had been fraudulently attributed to Baldassare Galupi by Venetian copyist Iseppo Baldan. The fraudulent copy is pictured above. Sächsische Landesbibliothek–Dresden (SLUB). PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #19: VIVALDI's DIXIGT DOMINUS. Sächsische Landesbibliothek–Dresden (SLUB). PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #20: SACHSISCHE LANDESBIBLIOTHEK-DRESDEN (SLUB) TODAY. Thanks to Dresden musician Johann Georg Pisendel who befriended Vivaldi on his court trip to Venice 1716-1717, the SLUB is today home to the largest collection of Vivaldi manuscripts outside of Italy. Sächsische Landesbibliothek–Dresden (SLUB). PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photo #21: DRESDEN- SLUB TODAY. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photo #22: DRESDEN- SLUB TODAY. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #23: ACCEDEMIA CHIGIANA Count Count Guido Chigi Saracini used his substantial inheritance to established at his Palazzo an international conservatory for advanced musical studies in 1932. Alfredo Casella and Olga Rudge were there at the beginning. After WWII Sarah Chang, Zubin Mehta, John Williams and others would come to Siena to study. The Palace, near the center of Siena, boast rows of Sienese Arches, a combination of Gothic and Romanist arches. PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #24: CHIGIANA LIBRARY In addition to printed works and microfilm pertaining to Vivaldi and the 1939 Vivaldi Festival Week, Siena’s Accademia Chigiana Music Library contains over 30,000 volumes, the Literary Library contains about 20,000 volumes plus microfilms, 78/33 rpm vinyl recordings and over 3,000 recordings of Accademia Chigiana concerts. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #25: DI OLGA RUDGE Entry from the Accedemia Chigiana library 1936 card catalogue. Ezra Pound wanted microfilm of the Turin Manuscripts but the library refused. The Fascists government interceded on Pound’s behalf and the library complied. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #26: CHIGIANA's VIVALDI MICROFILM FROM SLUB-DRESDEN. Ezra Pound ordered microfilm of Vivaldi’s works from the Dresden Library (SLUB) and passed some of them on to Count Chigi Saracini in 1938. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Sinea) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #27: CHIGIANA's VIVALDI MICROFILM FROM SLUB-DRESDEN. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Sinea) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #28: PRINTED PROGRAM BOOKLET FROM THE FIRST SETTIMANA MUSICALE SENESE, 1939. Vivaldi Festival Week, Siena, Italy. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #29: PRINTED PROGRAM BOOKLET FROM THE FIRST SETTIMANA MUSICALE SENESE, 1939. Vivaldi Festival Week, Siena, Italy. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #30: GIORDANO MICROFILM The Giordano Collection on Microfilm at the Turin National Library. (Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria di Torino). PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #31: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. Pre-Event International press for the Vivaldi Festival Week was about as viral as you could get in 1939. Thanks to international personalities such as Casalla and Pound the first Settimana Musical Senses was anticipated by classical music fans worldwide. The Chigiana library has a collection of international clippings that number in the hundreds. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #32: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #33: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE.

Photograph #34: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #35: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #36: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #37: PRESS FOR SETTIMANA MUSICAL SENSE. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTOS:MilesFish.com

Photograph #38: FIAT AD Printed music program just before the outbreak of WWII. Milan would be bombed repeatedly by the Allies to destroy Fiat and other factories. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #39: POUND FOR POUND Ezra Pound, deeply connected in the Axis Powers, remained in Italy for the duration of WWII. He broadcast speeches in support of Mussolini and served as an Italian corespondent for The Japan Times. He wrote about Siena’s Vivaldi Festival Week months later although the focus seems to be on his and Olga’s PRE Settimana Musicale Senese Vivaldi performances. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Sinea) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #40: TWO GLORIA EDITIONS (RV 589). Ricordi Music Publishers in Milan had made substantial recovery from the War by the mid 1950s. Ricordi’s Casella edition was available in the U.S. in 1958, Ricordi’s edition from Gian Francesco Malipiero of the Istituto Italiano Antonio Vivaldi. edition was available in the U.S. in 1970. (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) Photos:MilesFish.com

Photograph #41: TWO GLORIA EDITIONS (RV 589). (Accademia Chigiana Library, Siena) Photos:MilesFish.com

Photograph #42: DRESDEN VIVALDI MICROFILM. Acquired from Dresden by Pound in 1937, given to Count Chigi in 1938, printed in 1949. (Accedemia Chigiana, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

Photograph #43: DRESDEN VIVALDI MICROFILM. (Accedemia Chigiana, Siena) PHOTO:MilesFish.com

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Vivaldi's Hand
(Turin Manuscripts)
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