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.
aus "Il Sesto Libro de Madrigali, Ricciardo Amadino, Venezia, 1614"SV108
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 369087
Nr. 1 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für gemischten Chor (SSATTB) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 1135184
Nr. 5 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für 2 Soprane und Basso continuo
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1134926
Nr. 14 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"SV88
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135207
Lamento d'Arianna, part III
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1632797
for: 2 GES (ST) KLAV IT ENGL
Item no.: 120530
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902764
Nr. 11 aus "Vespro della beata vergine"
for: für einstimmigen Chor (S) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 113344
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1071520
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615922
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134850
Nr. 15 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"SV89
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 142470
Madrigali aus Band 2 der Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745239
Nr. 3 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135291
Nr. 9 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für 2 Tenöre, gemischten Chor (SSATTB) und Orchester
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1134966
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135516
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GA
for: für Chor STB, 2 Violinen und Basso continuo Violine 1/2, Violoncello
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 150244
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134910
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135303
Nr. 5 aus "Il secondo libro de madrigali"
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135035
Nr. 1 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135002
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134958
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135377
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135366
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135345
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135239
Nr. 12 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134900
für drei gleiche Stimmen (SSA)
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 115051
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134852
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor ATB, 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135454
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135349
Orfeo - Extraits
for: 5 Mixed Voices
Choir score
Item no.: 993312
A lover’s tears at the tomb of his beloved
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 723395
Motet
for: Singstimme und Klavier (Cembalo/Orgel)
Music score
Item no.: 748680
Drei- bis achtstimmige Bearbeitungen
for: Brass ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 775602
Drei Gitarren oder Gitarrenorchester
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 463153
Lyric book
Item no.: 258426
Drei Gitarren oder Gitarrenorchester
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 185437
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 263
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], 4 strings [brass winds], basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 666972
from Madrigali. Libro VI, Venezia 1614
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204135
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 263
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], 4 strings [brass winds], basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 666969
for: Voice (high)
Buch
Item no.: 1085693
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1086002
für fünf Blockflöten (SSATB)
for: 5 recorders (SSATB)
Score
Item no.: 418662
für hohe Singstimme (Sopran/Tenor) und Basso Continuo
Cantio Sacra 75
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 281997
from Madrigali Guerrieri. Libro VIII, No. 2
for six Voices (SSATTB), two Violins and Continuo
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 676561
Nr. 4 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"SV78
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 361239
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für 5 Stimmen (SSATB) und Basso continuo
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134939
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