Vivaldi, One Of Many Sons Of Venice...

Miniature Violin Next To Full Size, Vivaldi Exhibition, Venice, Italy
Originally uploaded by Geraldine Curtis

I had planned to cover our trip back to the station following a different route from the last two years and this did work quite well. It seemed too hot to make the effort to visit any of the museums, but we did stumble across a display of very old musical instruments and lots of information about one of `Venice’s famous sons', Vivaldi. It made for fascinating reading, but followed the same old story of musician born to lowly family, as eldest son (not third as usual) is ordained as priest, leaves priesthood, starts writing music, becomes famous, writes for nobility, but, having written his socks off dies unknown and in poverty.