What do you think about Vivaldi's music? do you like him? favourite musical composition?

Were it not for spotty dick (aka Nigel) only the purest of classical music lovers would have ever heard of this rather boring, repetitive composer. For something a bit more variable, try - say - Khachaturian (Piano Concerto is superb) or Prokofiev (various spellings available!) whose music is quite well known already, viz Romeo & Juliet and Peter and the Wolf ! ! !

How can anyone NOT like Vivaldi..The Four Seasons do doubt tops the list!!!

I find him somewhat repetitive.
Of course his Four Seasons is a masterpiece.

yes i do , the four seasons is wonderful

Enchanted ! Yes, I do adore his masterpiece especially Le Quattro Stagioni (the Four Seasons).

Poor Vivaldi...you know he did write other things besides the Four Seasons? I just hope that people are saying that it is their favorite because they really like it the best and not because it is the only piece by Vivaldi that they know! ;)

Although I like many of his works...i can only choose one! The Vivaldi "Gloria" RV 589 (not to be confused with 588 or 590 - his other two gloria settings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIo3IlE57...

I just love him, and not only because he was from Venice, like part of my family.
What I love in his music, it's the way he puts together joy that鈥檚 for what I would call 鈥渢he surface鈥? and angst (in the depth, in the background).
Among my favourite compositions, there鈥檚 of course the 鈥淪tabat Mater鈥?and the 鈥淣isi Dominus鈥? I also like his opera 鈥淢ontezuma鈥?(it鈥檚 a 鈥減asticcio鈥? he rearranged for it several former compositions; the arie 鈥淕l鈥檕ltraggi della sorte鈥? 鈥淟鈥檃quila generosa鈥?and 鈥淟鈥檃gonie nell鈥檃lma afflicta鈥?are simply beautiful). I could tell how many concerti I like鈥?And there鈥檚 also an aria from his cantata 鈥淕loria e Imeneo鈥? 鈥淭enero fanciulletto鈥?

Vivaldi seems to be like football and buttermilk.
Everyone either loves him or hates him.
Put me down for the former category.
I have sometimes considered organizing a local chamber group which would play nothing but Vivaldi.

Love it and love it all.
The joke about endless violins comes into play fairly early and so everything has to stop.
Beauty that close to your eye!

I am not a huge fan of Vivaldi and it is kinda ridiculous that 4 or 5 people said the same thing....he wrote a whole lot more than the Four Seasons....
My favorites would be:
Concerto in Bm for 4 Violins and Orchestra
Concerto in Gm for 2 Cellos and Orchestra
Sonatas 1-6 (esp. 3) for Cello

I enjoy Vivaldi's music very much--most of it is bright and cheerful, and you can really get a strong sense the warm Italian sun in his music.

I'm particularly fond of his "Concerti da Camera" ("Chamber Concerti"), which are written for relatively small groups of instrumental. My current favorite is the Concerto RV 94, for Recorder, Oboe, Violin, Bassoon and Continuo.

I personally adore Vivaldi, and I love his life story -- he taught at a girls' school for abandoned and orphaned children and wrote many (some would say most) of his compositions for them to play or sing; he was a Venetian priest with such brilliant red hair that he was known as the "red priest".

I, too, love the "Gloria", like an earlier answerer, but I will forever have a special place in my heart for his violin concerto in A minor; it's beloved by Suzuki violin students all over the world, and though I last played it the summer before I started fifth grade, I have no doubt whatsoever that I could pick it up now (I'm 33) and remember every note. A remarkable piece.

He's not my favourite composer but he's one of the few geniuses in music history. His four seasons are conisdered a timeless classic and his "spring" can be easily recognized by millions world wide.

Good question.I simply love his music.I always listen to his cheerful four seasons(it is just great!)You must try it too...

it`s not bad but i prefer other composers