Antonio Vivaldi was born in Venice on Mar. 4, 1678 and died on July 28, 1741 in Vienna.
This monument at Roosevelt Platz, close to Votive Church, was unveiled in 2001.

In 1741 Vivaldi went to Vienna to try his luck, because his fame waned and he fell into poverty. He was hoping to secure a lucrative post from Charles VI, who was a great fan of his music, but the monarch died before granting him an audience. Alone and destitute, Vivaldi succumbed to a heart attack and was buried, that same day, in an unmarked grave at Vienna's Spitaller Gottsacker. This cemetery was abandoned in 1783, and the Vienna University of Technology was built on the grounds in 1818.