Whose Composition Is The Four Seasons?

The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) is a set of four violin concertos composed by Antonio Vivaldi, published in 1725 as part of a larger collection called Il cimento dell'armonia e dell'inventione (The Contest Between Harmony and Invention). Each concerto represents a season — Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter — and is accompanied by a sonnet, possibly written by Vivaldi himself, describing the musical scenes. The work is one of the earliest examples of program music, where the composition tells a specific story. After falling into relative obscurity for two centuries, The Four Seasons was revitalized in the 1950s and has since become one of the most performed and recorded works in classical music history.