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.
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615922
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 1615923
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice, basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 1615925
Madrigalfassung aus dem 6. Madrigalbuch von 1614
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615924
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for: Flute, piano
Instrumental Solo & Accompaniment
Item no.: 1645955
Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1584440
for: Clarinet, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1561410
for: 5 Stimmen
Score
Item no.: 1336850
Ausgabe im Marschbuchformat
for: Brass ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1544007
SV 89 (1603) Madrigal aus Il quarto libro de madrigali
Möseler Chorreihe 57
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817526
Drei- bis achtstimmige Bearbeitungen
for: Brass ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 775602
Opera in un prologo e tre atti di
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 770163
Akademos tascabili musica 4
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 768682
Madrigali aus Band 2 der Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745239
Ecco mormorar l'onde
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934350
Opera regia with a prologue and three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voices, string orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 693016
Opera regia with a prologue and three acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voices, string orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 692997
Sacred Works 2
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689497
Christe, adoramus te
for: SSATB and Organ Continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 896010
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
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.: 676562
aus der Oper L'Orfeo
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670980
für Alt, Tenor (Sopran), Bass und Bc
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 284
Urtext
for: 3 voices, basso continuo
4 Scores, Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 667409
für Soli, gemischter Chor, 2 Violinen und Bc (Instrumente ad lib)
aus: Selva morale et spirituale - Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667150
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
für Soli und Chor (STB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale - SV 266
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 667006
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, ATTB), basso continuo; 8 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 666655
für Soli und Chor (SSAATTBB), 2 Violinen, Instrumente ad libitum und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 264
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666519
für Soli und Chor (STB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale - SV 266
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666485
für gemischten Chor und Bc (Instrumente ad lib)
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666484
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 274
Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666510
für Soli (SSTT), gemischten Chor (SATB, SATB), zwei Violinen, Instrumente ad libitum und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale SV 273 (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666486
Salmi II
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665431
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Voice (bass), basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 665342
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 275
Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, ATTB), basso continuo; 8 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 665324
für Soli (TTB), zwei Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale – Urtext
for: 3 voices (TTB), 2 violins, basso continuo
2 Scores, Solo parts
Item no.: 665345
für zwei Soprane, zwei Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale – Urtext
for: 2 voices (SS), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665344
für fünf Soli (SSTTB), gemischten Chor (SATB), zwei Violinen und Basso continuo (Instrumente ad lib)
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 272
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 665326
für fünf Soli (SSTTB), gemischten Chor (SATB), zwei Violinen und Basso continuo (Instrumente ad lib)
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 272
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Piano reduction
Item no.: 665329
for: Voice, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1008214
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902764
L'Orfeo
for: Voice (bass/baritone), piano
Music score
Item no.: 757401
Amor Lamento Della
for: Chamber ensemble
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 992463
Cpj15
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 992577
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 992391
Scherzi Musicali
for: Voice and Instrumental
Score
Item no.: 992523
for: Voice and Instrumental
Score
Item no.: 992509
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