Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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🎼 At a time when professional musical careers for women were rare, an orphanage in Venice - the Ospedale della Pietà - offered rigorous musical training and public performance opportunities that few other institutions could match.

🎻 The violin master? Antonio Vivaldi.

👉 Learn more about the all-female orchestra and choir that brought Vivaldi's music to life in episode 7 of our Classical Music History Podcast: The Baroque Era with Sarah Joy, available on our YouTube channel.

🎵 Music: Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons, Violin Concerto No. 1 in E Major, RV 269 ""Spring"": III. Allegro pastorale
Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina
Conductor: Giuseppe Lanzetta
Violin: Christiane Edinger

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