#( antonio | music. )

[amethystsoda]

[twixnmix]

Betty Davis and John Stavros photographed by Antonio Lopez, 1976.

[70sgroovy]

grace jones photographed by antonio lopez, 1974

[diioonysus]

“There is much that is exhilarating in the atmosphere of a ball room. The light, music, company, and even dancing itself, are all conducive to high spirits; be careful that this flow of spirits does not lead you into hoydenism and rudeness. Guard your actions and your tongue, that you may leave the room as quietly and gracefully as you enter it.” (x)

[renonv]

Confrontation

Flats :3

[afuror]

[bey0utifulsoul]

[gasparodasalo]

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) - Concerto for Strings and Basso continuo in c-minor, RV 118, I. Allegro. Performed by Ottavio Dantone/Accademia Bizantina on period instruments.

[city-of-ladies]

"I learn that the orphanage was created in part because illegitimate babies were being drowned in the Venetian canals. I learn that the girls of the the Ospedale della Pietà were allowed to play instruments usually reserved for men; that they earned money for their performances and rubbed shoulders with kings and queens. “What makes the Pietà so famous,” wrote the Prince of Saxony, Frederick Christian, after seeing them play in 1704, “is not just that all of the instrumentalists are truly excellent musicians, but … that all of the instruments are being played by females without any males in the ensemble at all.”

I discover that Vivaldi spent almost his entire career working at the Pietà and composed most of his pieces while there. But of the hundreds of girls and women who studied there, one name keeps rising to the surface: Anna Maria della Pietà. A prodigy violinist, she was Vivaldi’s favourite student. He composed many pieces just for her. It was in this experimental environment, with a plethora of talented female musicians to test ideas with, and Anna Maria by his side, that Vivaldi was able to perfect a whole new form of music: the concerto, most famously realised in his Four Seasons. 

I learn that several of the orphans at the Pietà were composers in their own right, in addition to many being copyists. In the study Women and Music, researchers Yves Bessieres and Patricia Niedzwiecki describe the Pietà as a “nursery for the virtuosos who provided Vivaldi with his ‘musical material’”. They cite a letter from a Pietà student called Lavinia and write, “[Lavinia’s] cantatas, concertos and various works had to be composed in secret and in imitation of Vivaldi’s style.” But Lavinia wanted to compose her own pieces too. “The music of others is like words addressed to me; I must answer and hear the sound of my own voice,” Lavinia wrote. “And the more I hear that voice, the more I realise that the songs and sounds which are mine are different … Woe betide me should they find out.”

I speak with another scholar, Vanessa Tonelli, a leading expert on the female musicians of Venice. Is it possible that these girls helped Vivaldi compose his works? “Anna Maria certainly designed her own solo cadenzas for Vivaldi’s concertos,” she tells me. She explains that some partbooks that belonged to the girl musicians still exist, and that there are examples within these of notes and solo lines scribbled into the margins. “Musicians often improvised cadenzas, ornamentations, and other solo lines, and they occasionally jotted down their ideas for these improvisations.”"

[barsov]

[hanakihan]

you know what I give up trying to lineart and somewhat color it because it’s extremely uncomfortable on phone udndjsndjjdjdjd

anyway salieri rocks white-red-black palette the best so I kinda wanted to keep it but reversing it a little

also entire look is still inspired by all his ascensions and some additional official art lmao

on side note brainrot with me over his kit plz

so imagine him not only conduct during his attacks but also using his voice (since u know salieri was also famous for his extremely good voice)

maybe he’s pure support ruler focused on healing/buffs idk wheeze

[omg-hellgirl]

Jerry Hall photographed by Antonio Lopez, mid-70s.

[simonsquest]

[not-from-amazon]

Making memes is my talent 🥰/j

[catzy88]

Le Bien Qui Fait Mal

Or, Salieri's descent into bisexual crisis and BDSM madness

[amadeus-for-music]

ᴡᴇ ᴡɪʟʟ ᴍᴇᴇᴛ ᴀɢᴀɪɴ… 'ᴠɪᴠʀᴇ À ᴇɴ ᴄʀᴇᴠᴇʀ' ᴍᴠ [ᴍᴏᴢᴀʀᴛ ʟ'ᴏᴘᴇʀᴀ ʀᴏᴄᴋ]