St. Charles Church was finished in 1737. Three years later Antonio Vivaldi moved to Vienna. Being a priest he surely admired this brand new extraordinary sacral builing. As nowadays one is still attracted by its architecture to people of the 18th century the Charles Church must have appeared as exceptionaly unique and exceptional. Vivaldi himself died in Vienna on July 28th 1741. He was burried just a few meters from St. Charles Church at “Spitaler God´s Acre“. Today there is standing the Technical University and just a small sign on the building reminds us of Vivaldi. The grave and the bones are forgotten. Only a few years before Vivaldi moved to Vienna, he composed his most famous “Four Seasons“, a compilation of four revolutionary concerts for solo violin and string orchestra. For poems (maybe written by Vivaldi) are the image of the composition which shws us furios thunder storms and fl ashes, breaking ice and twittering of birds, sleeping sheperds, barking dogs, a band of hunters....
Vivaldi's Four Seasons

