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.
für hohe Singstimme (Sopran/Tenor) und Basso Continuo
Cantio Sacra 75
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 281997
Arie, canzonette e recitativi
for: Voice, harpsichord [piano]
Songbook
Item no.: 258415
MarienvesperSV 206
for: SSAATTTTBB, Orchester
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 289252
Monodisches Teilstück aus "Arianna" und 4 Madrigalfassungen für Chor
for: Alt solo, Gemischter Chor: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1665075
for: 10 voices, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1670719
for: 3 saxophones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 331048
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 630275
Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata
Madrigal-Zyklus aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali"
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 409540
Madrigal-Zyklus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654906
Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 225749
mit 30 Abbildungen und zahlreichen Notenbeispielen
Große Komponisten und ihre Zeit 20
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1667893
Love Duet from Monteverdis last opera "L'Incoronazione di Poppea"
Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654428
aus Band 6 der GA
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676947
Lyric book
Item no.: 258426
Favola in musica
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 363540
Vespers 1610 SV 206
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621462
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SSATTB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1663988
für 5 Blechbläser und Orgel
Partitur und Stimmen
for: 5 brass players, organ
Organ score, Parts
Item no.: 1658442
aus Band 6 der GA
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 164124
Marienvesper
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 136463
from Madrigali Guerrieri. Libro VIII, No. 7
for eight Voices (SSAATTBB), two Violins and Continuo
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1657551
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671190
Musiche Varie – Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 633100
Favola In Musica SV.318
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 293842
Revised Edition 1990
for: Mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1678304
Vespro della Beata Vergine
Revised edition 2010
for: Mixed choir (6 voices), orchestra, basso continuo; soloists ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 634495
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB / SAABar), [Basso continuo]
Score
Item no.: 1658804
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