Vivaldi Obsession?

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Is anybody else obsessed with Vivaldi or baroque music in general? Vivaldi is brilliant... the patterns and intensity. I find myself listening to a single piece 50 times in a row. Is this stimming?

If you have to be addicted to something that's a good choice of what to be obsessed with.

Havent gotten that obsessed with any one kind of music lately(enough to play a record fifty times), but do listen to the late Baroque era (1700 to 1750) music.

Vivaldi was indeed brilliant.

Two of my favorite classical recordings are both old vinyl LPs: A Bavarian chamber group with authentic 18th century instruments doing Bach's "Brandenburg Concertos", and the other is a small French group doing the "Four Seasons" by Vivaldi. Both great renditions of great Baroque pieces.

I like harpsichord music.

As Naturalplastic stated, it's something great to obsessed with.

Yes, I like Bach's concertos as well. Really love his "Little" fugue in g minor though! Harpsichord sounds kinda formal, but yes it's a staple of the baroque era... Before the piano became ubiquitous. Harpsichord sounds nice when used tastefully as an accent.

THe running joke regarding Vivaldi at least in music circles including most composers that followed him was that he wrote the same pieces 50times. He was not a very innovative composer.

I suppose it is good you enjoy things. I think Vivaldi is just too superficial to get much joy from the actual composition. The actual playing of it can be enjoyable but this is an appreciation of th performance , not the work.

I am a lifetime musician as well. Just don't listen to his pieces that are similar! Didn't necessarily mean he was a special interest... he would be a special "sub" interest of music in general. It's more along the lines of when I start listening to Vivaldi I have a difficult time switching to something else. Music is a special interest along with photography. I practice both. If I had a musical special interest, it would be Bach's Cello Suites... lots of room for interpretation. I've worked out a decent version on classical guitar and try to improve it everyday.

Also, when replaying music in your head is it generalized and vague or does it sound exactly like you listened to it? I guess the equivalent of an auditory "photographic memory" (I'm sure there is a term for this)... if that makes sense? Not just notes but timbre and everything else.

Vivaldi makes me feel violent.

Yes, seaweed. His summer storm (Concerto No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 8, RV 315 "L'estate": III. Presto) does that to me. But, I don't know if you mean he makes you violent because you don't like his work. Pieces like Concerto in G minor for 2 Cellos, on the other hand, are cognitively stimulating and very visual in nature.

The summer storm part, and the people sliding around on ice in the winter part, have a violent sound. The rest of the Four Seasons it is not particularly "violent" sounding.

intensely cheerful music makes me feel violent.

I understand, but its not all cheerful though. I think many people don't get past the Four Seasons.

I just took part in a community chorale's performance of Vivaldi's Gloria RV 589, last Sunday.