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Vivaldi's business model was primarily Patreon. He also had a steady side hustle teaching music and composing for the local orphanage's renowned orchestra and
by mLuby 5y ago
Vivaldi's business model was primarily Patreon.
He also had a steady side hustle teaching music and composing for the local orphanage's renowned orchestra and choir. #SoPure
Vivaldi first went viral with his album "The Harmonic Inspiration." He'd regularly dedicate his content to his top-tier subscribers, among them celebrities and members of the 1%. His best-known work, the chart-topping "Four Seasons," is considered classic even to this day.
@TheRedPriest (as Vivaldi was known) was censored for airing LGBT content and was cancelled by his employer; luckily both situations were quickly reversed in his favor.
While Vivaldi undoubtedly became an influencer (of J.S. Bach in particular), during his life he often wasn't trending with the right demographics. One time he had to sell NFT-equivalents of his work at the market low just to move back to Vienna. Shortly thereafter his lead investor got cold feet and went belly up; without financial support, Vivaldi soon died poor.
Edit: whoops name collision my bad.
- yread 5y agoYou haven't told us whether Google was involved
- stonecharioteer 5y agoThis is the most reddit comment I've seen on HN
- musicale 5y agoVivaldi's business plan: Become a priest and violin virtuoso. Teach music at an orphanage. Compose hundreds of excellent musical pieces from concertos to operas to oratorios. Gain powerful and wealthy patrons and celebrity, then die in poverty after musical tastes change, remain forgotten for hundreds of years, and be rediscovered to grand acclaim! Counterpoint: "Vivaldi didn't write 500 concertos - he wrote the same concerto 500 times!" (repeated by the less-prolific Igor Stravinsky, composer of the "Riot of Spring" and other works; Stravinsky famously described his own fans as "very naïve and stupid people.")