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.
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 760668
für 4-stimmigen Männerchor
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Choir score
Item no.: 386463
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 646617
aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali" (1615)
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Score
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aus: Sacrae Cantiunculae
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Score
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aus Salva morale e spirituale (1641)
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Score
Item no.: 1338190
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 850784
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236109
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Single part(n)
Item no.: 236108
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236106
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236107
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
A 8 voci con 6 vel 10 istromenti SV (1640)
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Single part Trombone 1
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aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 236110
Selva morale et spirituale (1641)
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Score
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Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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aus: Selva morale et spirituale
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Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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20. Ardi o gela a tua voglia - Risposta
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10. Almo divino raggio - Seconda parte
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1.1 Lasciatemi morire (Lamento d’Arianna - Prima parte)
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1. Ch’ami la vita mia nel tuo bel nome
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9. La piaga c’ho nel core
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2. O Mirtillo, Mirtill’anima mia
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11. Allora i pastor tutti - Terza parte
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19. Longe da te, cor mio
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7. Non son in queste rive
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5. Ma, se con la pietà non è in te spenta - Seconda parte
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15. Questa ordì il laccio
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2. Se per avervi, ohimè, donato il core
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19. Ardo, sì, ma non t’amo
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4. Amor, per tua mercé vattene a quella
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9. Ch’io t’ami, e t’ami più de la mia vita - Prima parte
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9. Fumia la pastorella - Prima parte
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13. Tra mille fiamme e tra mille catene
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3. A che tormi il ben mio
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3. Bevea Fillide mia
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Item no.: 1204110
21. Arsi ed alsi a mia voglia - Contrarisposta
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Item no.: 1629767
7. Filli cara ed amata
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Item no.: 1629739
17. T’amo, mia vita!
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Item no.: 1629679
6. Se pur non mi consenti
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Item no.: 1629491
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
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6. Dorinda, ah, dirò mia, se mia non sei - Terza parte
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11. A un giro sol de’ belli occhi lucenti
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Item no.: 1204114
12. Se nel partir da voi
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16. La vaga pastorella
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12. Ohimè, se tanto amate
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Item no.: 1204111
13. Se tu mi lassi, perfida, tuo danno
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Item no.: 1629399
2. Cor mio, mentre vi miro
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Item no.: 1204131
18. Anima del cor mio
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Item no.: 1629658
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