While Vivaldi is most well known for these concertos, he also wrote in other forms, including sacred choral music. It was for this organization that he wrote most of his works, including over 500 concertos for various instruments, roughly half of them for solo violin.
While the boys had to leave the facility when they were 15, the best girl musicians stayed on to become members of the orchestra and choir. The boys were taught a trade while the girls received a musical education.
Antonio Vivaldi spent many years as the master of violin at the Conservatorio dell'Ospedale della Pietà in Venice, an orphanage for displaced boys and girls.
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