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The Chiesa della Pieta on the Riva degli Schiavoni, the church associated with the Ospedale della Pieta where Antonio Vivaldi served as violin master and composed the majority of his instrumental works between 1703 and 1740. The current building, designed by Giorgio Massari and completed in 1760, postdates Vivaldi's tenure but occupies the same site where his revolutionary concertos were first performed by the Pieta's famous all-female orchestra before audiences that included visiting royalty fr...