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.
Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Cello [Basso continuo]
Item no.: 274650
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GA
for: für Chor SATTB und Basso continuo
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 374083
Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 578512
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 237175
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 833317
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 985597
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 1162826
Pavane Sacred
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1168970
for: 5 saxophones (SAATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487122
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487118
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003198
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236098
für Sopran (Tenor) und Bc
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 281996
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 25
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822621
für Soli (TT), gemischten Chor (SATTB) und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale – Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) [5 solo voices], basso continuo; 5 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 666524
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 935109
O Cross Most Blessed
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158177
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984865
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 623427
10. Almo divino raggio - Seconda parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629766
1.3 Dove, dove è la fede (Lamento d’Arianna - Terza parte)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629659
15. Troppo ben può questo tiranno Amore!
for: SAATB Chor und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629639
11. Ma tu, più che mai dura - Terza e ultima parte
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629605
7. Che se tu se’ il cor mio - Seconda parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629588
6. Anima mia, perdona - Prima parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629462
for: Choir
Item no.: 1629448
Ballo a 5 con doi Violini from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII, Venezia 1638
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Item no.: 1629446
20. Piagn’e sospira: e quand’i caldi raggi
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629435
Oper/Operette
for: Opera Libretto
Book
Item no.: 907340
for: für gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1135095
10. Quell’ombr’esser vorrei
for: SAATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629681
1.1 Lasciatemi morire (Lamento d’Arianna - Prima parte)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204105
1. Ch’ami la vita mia nel tuo bel nome
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204106
Sestina from Madrigali. Libro VI, Venezia 1614
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1204112
9. La piaga c’ho nel core
for: SAATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204142
2. O Mirtillo, Mirtill’anima mia
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204145
für fünf Blockflöten (SSATB)
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Score
Item no.: 418662
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333965
Madrigali amorosi
Score
Item no.: 549793
Score
Item no.: 446201
18. Donna s’io miro voi, giaccio divengo
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629682
from Madrigali. Libro VI, Venezia 1614
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204135
Motette für fünf Stimmen und Basso continuo
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATTB), basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680147
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 641394
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 268
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662997
Vespro Della Beata Vergine
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 461346
aus der Marien-Vesper
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 179323
Love Duet from Monteverdis last opera "L'Incoronazione di Poppea"
Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 630233
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