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Vivaldi the teacher
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Vivaldi: facts about the great composer
8. Vivaldi the teacher
Alongside his religious duties, the composer spent 37 years of his life as a composer, teacher, and conductor at the Pio Ospedale della Pietà asylum for orphaned girls. The original building is now a hotel restaurant, but the nearby church was completed in 1761, 20 years after Vivaldi's death
