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Inspired to a large degree by Opera, Baroque composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell and ultimately Bach and Handel began exploring and exploiting these new forms of orchestral music as well as instrumental chamber music - sonatas, trios, fantasias, variations, etc. etc. etc.

Getting back to Venice, it was place were large scale, commercial public Opera performances came into their own, during the Baroque era. See: Opera -Baroque era

Inspired to a large degree by Opera, Baroque composers such as Vivaldi, Telemann, Purcell and ultimately Bach and Handel began exploring, exploiting and expanding on these new forms of orchestral music, as well as instrumental chamber music - sonatas, trios, fantasias, variations, etc. etc. etc.

Getting back to Venice, it was the place where large scale, commercial public Opera performances came into their own, during the Baroque era. See: Opera -Baroque era

The music publishing business, which became another important source of income for composers also started in Venice. See: The father of modern music printing was Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who was able to secure a twenty-year monopoly on printed music in Venice during the 16th century.. That made Venice a place that musicians and composers gravitated to, and they competed with one another for market share. That in turn engendered great creativity among musicians and composers.  (In the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vienna saw something similar, for similar reasons. Vienna was the city of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn in his later years - as well as many others. What we call the Classical Era has deep roots in Vienna.)

The music publishing business, which became another important source of income for composers also started in Venice. See: The father of modern music printing was Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who was able to secure a twenty-year monopoly on printed music in Venice during the 16th century.. That made Venice a place that musicians and composers gravitated to, and they competed with one another for market share. That in turn engendered great creativity among musicians and composers. 

(In the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vienna saw something similar, for similar reasons. Vienna was the city of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn in his later years - as well as many others. The music of what we now call the Classical and Romantic Eras - roughly spanning the period between rise of Haydn and the demise of Brahms - has deep roots in Vienna.)

The music publishing business, which became another important source of income for composers also started in Venice. See: The father of modern music printing was Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who was able to secure a twenty-year monopoly on printed music in Venice during the 16th century.. That made Venice a place that musicians and composers gravitated to, and they competed with one another for market share. That in turn engendered great creativity among musicians and composers. (In the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vienna saw something similar, for the same reasons. Vienna was the city of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn is his later years - as well as many others. What we call the Classical Era has deep roots in Vienna.)

The music publishing business, which became another important source of income for composers also started in Venice. See: The father of modern music printing was Ottaviano Petrucci, a printer and publisher who was able to secure a twenty-year monopoly on printed music in Venice during the 16th century.. That made Venice a place that musicians and composers gravitated to, and they competed with one another for market share. That in turn engendered great creativity among musicians and composers. (In the 18th and 19th Centuries, Vienna saw something similar, for similar reasons. Vienna was the city of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, and Haydn in his later years - as well as many others. What we call the Classical Era has deep roots in Vienna.)