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.
16. Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629436
Item no.: 1629542
for: SSATTB Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1629451
for: 4 horns, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607443
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237174
for: Soli [SAATB] and Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 983439
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 935196
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1127805
Favola in Musica
for: Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 743935
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], 4 strings [brass winds], basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662995
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667150
for: 2 voices (TT), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663381
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
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for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 174770
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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(Urtext)
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Score
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(Urtext)
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Score
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for: 5 Stimmen
Score
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for: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
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Score
Item no.: 1337387
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 871880
für 10 Blechbläser
Edition Grassauer
for: Brass ensemble; mixed choir (SATB) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1351581
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SSATTB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 236097
3. Cor mio, non mori? e mori!
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Choir score
Item no.: 1629683
14. Usciam, ninfe, omai fuor di questi boschi
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Choir score
Item no.: 1629577
16. Ma dove, oh lasso me! - Seconda parte
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12. Ohimè, se tanto amate
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Choir score
Item no.: 1204111
3. Sovra tenere erbette e bianchi fiori
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Choir score
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1. La giovinetta pianta
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Choir score
Item no.: 1629425
13. Se tu mi lassi, perfida, tuo danno
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Choir score
Item no.: 1629399
14. Ecco mormorar l’onde
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Choir score
Item no.: 1204128
2. E dicea l’una sospirand’allora - Seconda parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629758
Madrigali amorosi
Set of parts
Item no.: 1585087
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 330463
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 996388
for: Soli [SAATB] and Piano
Score
Item no.: 983696
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261956
Score
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Score
Item no.: 549815
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115051
Öl auf Leinwand um 1630
Postcard
Item no.: 227147
for: SSATBB
Choir score
Item no.: 985051
Tragedia di lieto fine in un prologo e tre atti (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460643
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber ensemble
Score
Item no.: 850465
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822755
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