Despite this circumstance, he took his status as a secular priest seriously and even earned the reputation of a religious bigot. Soon after his ordination as a priest, Vivaldi gave up celebrating mass because of a chronic ailment that is believed to have been bronchial asthma. Vivaldi had dealings with the Pietà for most of his career: as violin master (1703–09 1711–15), director of instrumental music (1716–17 1735–38), and paid external supplier of compositions (1723–29 1739–40). The Pietà specialized in the musical training of its female wards, and those with musical aptitude were assigned to its excellent choir and orchestra, whose much-praised performances assisted the institution’s quest for donations and legacies. He became an excellent violinist, and in 1703 he was appointed violin master at the Ospedale della Pietà, a home for foundlings. He made his first known public appearance playing alongside his father in the basilica as a “supernumerary” violinist in 1696. His distinctive reddish hair would later earn him the soubriquet Il Prete Rosso (“The Red Priest”). Antonio, the eldest child, trained for the priesthood and was ordained in 1703.
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