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.
Oxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 363738
aus der Oper L'Orfeo
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670980
5 Bfl
for: BFL QUINTETT (AATTB)
Item no.: 131408
Sätze in hohen Schlüsseln
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo (Alte solo (2)), Tenöre solo (3), Bässe solo (2), Gemischter Chor:SSATTB, Gemischte Chöre (2):SATTB, Zink (3), Violinen (3), Violen (3), Cello, Kontrabass, Flöten (2), Blockflöten (2), Posaunen (3), Bass-Posaune (tief), (Orgel, Basso continuo)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 873109
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verlag Reclam
Book
Item no.: 666924
Love Duet from Monteverdis last opera "L'Incoronazione di Poppea"
Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654428
O primavera
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 729157
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) a cappella oder mit Basso continuo
Studienpartitur (= Singpartitur)
Item no.: 749274
Madrigal aus Il terzo libro de madrigali
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 795668
A lover’s tears at the tomb of his beloved
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 723395
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 725664
aus der Oper "L'Orfeo"
for: 2 trumpets, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1631758
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Cello, Kontrabass
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 876110
Walton Choral
for: TTB [Soprano Solo]
Choir score
Item no.: 985197
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 820165
4. O dolc’anima mia, dunque è pur vero
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629694
Sestina from Madrigali. Libro VI, Venezia 1614
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629690
17. T’amo, mia vita!
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629679
18. Questo specchio ti dono
for: SAATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629524
15. Non più guerra, pietate
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629509
6. Se pur non mi consenti
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629491
Sacred Works 2
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689497
1. Ah, dolente partita
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204139
Nr. 5 aus "Il secondo libro de madrigali"
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135035
Gitarre-Bibliothek Nr. 63
for: Voice (soprano), guitar
Item no.: 228473
aus den "Canzonette d'amore a tre voci"
for: für 3 Blockflöten (S(A)A(S)T) und /oder Singstimmen ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 112981
Gesamtausgabe
Partitur
Item no.: 124512
for: Voice, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1008214
from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII
Score
Item no.: 446096
Lyric book
Item no.: 258426
aus "Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali, Ricciardo Amadino, Venezia, 1614"SV108
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 369087
Madrigal aus Il terzo libro de madrigali
Möseler Chorreihe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 377710
in original clefs
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 549868
in freier Neugestaltung
for: Voice (alto), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288320
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 493811
For SSATTB Choir with two Violins and Continuo
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 331335
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB) (SAABar), [Basso continuo]
Score
Item no.: 1337242
aus Il Quarto libro de madrigali 1603
for: SSATB
Score
Item no.: 1338200
aus Salva morale e spirituale (1641)
for: ATTB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1338190
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1338134
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SSATTB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 236096
Favola in musica
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 363540
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 274
Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666510
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Basso continuo (Bassus Generalis)
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 878596
Vespers 1610 SV 206
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621462
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 268
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 666982
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 237176
from the Opera L'Orfeo
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 894097
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