Antonio Vivaldi was used to defying the odds—born during an earthquake, stricken with a "tightness of the chest" that limited his employment and composing not for the wealthy initially, but for a girls' orchestra within the walls of an early 18th-Century orphanage.
How did this composer's music, considered out of style at his death, become so popular that it was "Muzak'd to death" 200 years later?
Take a running jump into the pile of leaves which is Vivaldi's "Autumn" from "The Four Seasons" to find out.
