Дело "Вивальди"

Ot Antonio Vivalʹdi ne ostalosʹ nichego: ni lokona volos, ni parika, ni ri͡asy svi͡ashchennika, ni skripki, proslavivsheĭ ego imi͡a na vsi͡u Evropu. Ne dozhili do nashikh dneĭ ni prii͡ut Pʹeta, gde on prorabotal s pereryvami pochti 20 let, ni teatr Svi͡atogo Angela, gde on stavil svoi opery, ni dazhe t͡serkovʹ San-Dzhovanni-in-Oleo, gde on otsluzhil svoi͡u pervui͡u messu. Net v ego rodnoĭ Venet͡sii i muzei͡a Vivalʹdi - otkrytyĭ v 2004 godu vo vnutrennem dvore byvshego prii͡uta Pʹeta skromnyĭ muzeĭ ego imeni i͡avli͡aetsi͡a po suti muzeem samogo ėtogo blagotvoritelʹnogo zavedenii͡a. Skudnostʹ svedeniĭ o zhizni Antonio Vivalʹdi porodila v ego pervykh biografii͡akh mnozhestvo ėkstrapoli͡at͡siĭ i fantasticheskikh izmyshleniĭ, stavshikh so vremenem v silu izvestnogo zakona "faktami" i blagopoluchno dozhivshikh do nashikh dneĭ. Nesmotri͡a na kropotlivui͡u rabotu po kriticheskomu analizu ego biografii, provodimui͡u na proti͡azhenii desi͡atiletiĭ mezhdunarodnym soobshchestvom issledovateleĭ, lichnostʹ velikogo venet͡siant͡sa do sikh por uskolʹzaet ot nashego ponimanii͡a. Kak pravilo, kompozitory ne imeli lichnogo arkhiva, i posle konchiny avtora ego proizvedenii͡a bessledno ischezali. Arkhiv zhe Vivalʹdi ne tolʹko doshël do nashego vremeni, no i sokhranilsi͡a v prakticheski netronutom vide, pochti ne ponesi͡a utrat...

There was nothing left of Antonio Vivaldi: not a lock of hair, not a wig, not a priest's cassock, not a violin that made his name famous throughout Europe. Neither the Pieta Orphanage, where he worked intermittently for almost 20 years, nor the Teatro Sant'Angelo, where he staged his operas, nor even the church of San Giovanni in Oleo, where he celebrated his first Mass, have survived to this day. There is no Vivaldi Museum in his native Venice either — the modest museum named after him, opened in 2004 in the courtyard of the former Pieta orphanage, is in fact a museum of this charitable institution itself. The paucity of information about Antonio Vivaldi's life gave rise to many extrapolations and fantastic fabrications in his early biographies, which eventually became "facts" by virtue of a well-known law and have safely survived to the present day. Despite the painstaking work of critical analysis of his biography carried out over the decades by the international community of researchers, the personality of the great Venetian still eludes our understanding. As a rule, the composers did not have a personal archive, and after the death of the author, his works disappeared without a trace. The Vivaldi archive has not only reached our time, but has also been preserved in an almost intact form, with almost no losses...