The Four Seasons

The Four Seasons is a set of four violin concertos by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1725 as part of his Op. 8. The music exemplifies Baroque concerto style and early programme music, featuring virtuosic solo violin writing and vivid orchestral textures that evoke seasonal scenes, and it occupies an important place in Vivaldi's output as an early example of programme composition that influenced later concerto writing.