Antonio Vivaldi was buried in Vienna for 19 florins 45 kreuzer, and his manuscripts were sold off, then found at a school in 1926

Antonio Vivaldi died in Vienna in July 1741 in poor circumstances, in a house owned by a saddlemaker's widow. The funeral at St. Stephen's Cathedral cost 19 florins 45 kreuzer, with the cheapest bell service at 2 florins 36 kreuzer. He was buried in the Bürgerspital cemetery, which closed in 1807. His heirs sold the manuscripts left in Venice. Senator Jacopo Soranzo had them bound into 27 volumes. They later went to Count Giacomo Durazzo. In 1922 the library of Marcello Durazzo went to the San Carlo Salesian College at Borgo San Martino. In 1926 the rector put the books up for sale to pay for repairs. Luigi Torri and Alberto Gentili appraised them, and Torri had them placed under lien. The Turin library lacked the money. Stockbroker Roberto Foa bought them in memory of his son Mauro. In 1930 industrialist Filippo Giordano gave 100,000 lire in memory of his son Renzo, aged twelve. Gentili, who was Jewish, was expelled from the University of Turin in 1938. Turin now holds about 90 percent of Vivaldi's known autograph manuscripts: 27 volumes, about 450 works.