Дело "Вивальди"

Ot Antonyo Vyvaldy ne ostalos nychego: ny lokona volos, ny paryka, ny ryasy svyashchennyka, ny skrypky, proslavyvshey ego ymya na vsyu Evropu. Ne dozhyly do nashykh dney ny pryyut Peta, gde on prorabotal s pereryvamy pochty 20 let, ny teatr Svyatogo Angela, gde on stavyl svoy opery, ny dazhe tserkov San-Dzhovanny-yn-Oleo, gde on otsluzhyl svoyu pervuyu messu. Net v ego rodnoy Venetsyy y muzeya Vyvaldy — otkrytyy v 2004 godu vo vnutrennem dvore byvshego pryyuta Peta skromnyy muzey ego ymeny yavlyaetsya po suty muzeem samogo etogo blagotvorytelnogo zavedenyya. Skudnost svedenyy o zhyzny Antonyo Vyvaldy porodyla v ego pervykh byografyyakh mnozhestvo ekstrapolyatsyy y fantastycheskykh yzmyshlenyy, stavshykh so vremenem v sylu yzvestnogo zakona «faktamy» y blagopoluchno dozhyvshykh do nashykh dney. Nesmotrya na kropotlyvuyu rabotu po krytycheskomu analyzu ego byografyy, provodymuyu na protyazhenyy desyatyletyy mezhdunarodnym soobshchestvom yssledovateley, lychnost velykogo venetsyantsa do sykh por uskolzaet ot nashego ponymanyya. Kak pravylo, kompozytory ne ymely lychnogo arkhyva, y posle konchyny avtora ego proyzvedenyya bessledno yschezaly. Arkhyv zhe Vyvaldy ne tolko doshyol do nashego vremeny, no y sokhranylsya v praktychesky netronutom vyde, pochty ne ponesya 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...