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Vivaldi's Four Seasons was paired with poems

The concertos were published in 1725 alongside sonnets

Antonio Vivaldi published The Four Seasons in 1725 as part of a set of twelve concertos. Each of the four violin concertos is linked to a sonnet describing spring, summer, autumn or winter, and the music imitates birdsong, storms and the barking of dogs.

Vivaldi Winter from the Four Seasons 02 — Vivaldi · Public domain · source

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: The concertos were published in 1725 alongside sonnets. The figure is taken from Encyclopaedia Britannica, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
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