The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works. Though three of the concerti are wholly original, the first, "Spring", borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino. The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua, as initially supposed, where Vivaldi was living at the time, since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717, while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718.
The Four Seasons is the best known of Vivaldi's works Though three of the concerti are wholly original the first "Spring" borrows patterns from a sinfonia in the first act of Vivaldi's contemporaneous opera Il Giustino The inspiration for the concertos is not the countryside around Mantua as initially supposed where Vivaldi was living at the time since according to Karl Heller they could have been written as early as 1716–1717 while Vivaldi was engaged with the court of Mantua only in 1718