Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) is an Italian composer, who is perhaps the most well-known composer to precede J.S Bach. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore the wide world of Divino Claudio with Stretta Music today!
Claudio Monteverdi was born in Cremona in 1567, the same year Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina published the “Missa papae Marcelli”, a good example of the austere style imposed upon musicians by the Church at the time. Monteverdi was a pupil of Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, the choir master of Cremona Cathedral. His compositional talent was soon recognised, and at the age of 15 he published the “Sacrae cantiunculae”, compositions for three voices, at 16 the “Madrigali spirituali” and at 17 the “Canzonette”. In 1589, at the age of 22, he joined the Court of Mantua as a viola player, and in 1603 he became Maestro di Cappella. Ten years later, in 1613 he moved to Venice, to take up the same position at St. Mark’s Basilica, where he stayed until his death in 1643.
In Monteverdi’s “First Book of Madrigals” from 1587, one can already find progressive harmonic and melodic elements that break tradition, but it is his “Fifth Book of Madrigals” from 1605, that really marks the transition between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods. It was through his harmonic and melodic experimentation that Monteverdi coined the stile concitato, as seen in his famous “Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” from 1624.
Divino Claudio, as Claudio Monteverdi is often referred to in Italy, is best known as the inventor of musical melodrama. Although he wrote at least 18 operas, only “L’Orfeo”, 1607, the aria “Lamento d’Arianna” from “L’Arianna”, 1608, “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria”, 1640, and the “Incoronazione di Poppea”, 1643, have been preserved.
Interesting that Monteverdi chose to write “L’Orfeo” as one of his first theatrical works, the “Fable in Music” dedicated to the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is said to be the first work in the history of music, and it is the same story that ends an era, namely with “Orpheus” by Gluck. According to Claudio Toscani, Orpheus is “the first real protagonist in the history of modern musical theatre”, and with him the history of opera really began.
Contemporary musicologists have devoted much attention to Monteverdi and his compositions. Gian Francesco Malipiero commissioned the publication of Opera Omnia to “spread the works of one of Italy’s true geniuses” and “to show once again how great manifestations of art always remain modern’.
The Monteverdi Festival takes place in Cremona every year, where the Fondazione Claudio Monteverdi, which is dedicated to the critical editions of his work, is located.
A fresh rose is regularly placed at the tomb of Claudio Monteverdi in the Basilica dei Frari di Venezia.
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Chorpartitur
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Buch
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O primavera
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Choir score
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Partitur
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Book (Hardcover)
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Ensemble score
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Choir score
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Score
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Lyric book
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Choir score
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aus: Selva morale et spirituale
Zwei Partituren und Bc-Stimme
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2 Scores
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in 10 volumes
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10 music scores (Urtext)
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6. Dorinda, ah, dirò mia, se mia non sei - Terza parte
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Choir score
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8. Ferir quel petto, Silvio? - Quinta e ultima parte
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Choir score
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1.2 O Teseo, o Teseo mio! (Lamento d’Arianna - Seconda parte)
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Choir score
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6. O rossignuol ch’in queste verdi fronde
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Choir score
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13. Ch’io non t’ami, cor mio?
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Choir score
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11. O primavera, gioventù de l’anno
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Choir score
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11. A un giro sol de’ belli occhi lucenti
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Choir score
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aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 272
Urtext
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Set of parts
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Score, part
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Score, Parts
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Score
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Buch
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Score, Parts
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Madrigal cycle
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Choir score
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L'Orfeo
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Music score
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Sheet music
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Organ score, Parts
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Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
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Score
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Score
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Partitur
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Chorpartitur
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Chorpartitur
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Score
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Score
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Score
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Kbd/instrumental part
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Choir score
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Choir score
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aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 265
Urtext
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Set of parts
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2 Scores, Solo parts
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Score, Parts
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The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi
Buch + CD
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12. Se nel partir da voi
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Choir score
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16. La vaga pastorella
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Choir score
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15. La bocca onde l’asprissime parole
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