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.
mit beiden Versionen des Magnificat
Lauda einen Ganzton, Magnificat eine kleine Terz abwärts transponiert
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 477190
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 268
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 662040
Christe, adoramus te
for: SSATB and Organ Continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 896010
Biography
Novello Short Biographies
Book
Item no.: 321409
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 935196
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soli [SAATB] and Ensemble
Score
Item no.: 983439
12. Se nel partir da voi
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629755
16. La vaga pastorella
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629593
Item no.: 1629542
for: SSATTB Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1629451
16. Dolcemente dormiva la mia Clori
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629436
Lamento d'Arianna, part III
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1632797
Kbd/instrumental part
for: SATB, Keyboard [Organ or Piano] or instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1041108
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 224806
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 287201
Selva morale e spirituale III
Monteverdi Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 174770
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
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 265
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo; 5 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 666976
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 Soli (TT), 2 Violinen, Instrumente ad libitum und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 283
for: 2 voices (TT), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 663381
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 263
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], 4 strings [brass winds], basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662995
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
for: Gemischter Chor (SSATTB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1663988
15. La bocca onde l’asprissime parole
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629656
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 237174
aus: Messa à quattro voci et salmi
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 229602
für fünf Gesangsstimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 2
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 361686
für fünf Stimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 4
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 124503
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1127805
The Musical Dramas Of Claudio Monteverdi
Buch + CD
Item no.: 609880
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 871880
for: SATTB
Choir score
Item no.: 1172304
Pulchr.Sunt
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1172295
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1194051
Ballo a 5 con doi Violini from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII, Venezia 1638
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 554115
Madrigali - aus Band 2 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135345
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GASV267
for: für Chor SSATB, Streicher und Basso continuo Violine 2
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135253
for: Soli, Chor, Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 288410
für vier Hörner und Tuba
for: 4 HRN TUBA
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607443
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
Buch
Item no.: 250523
Mark Foster
for: Instrumental Parts
Set of parts
Item no.: 1656239
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Soli [SAATB] and Piano
Score
Item no.: 984054
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.: 1135239
Nr. 14 aus "Il quarto libro de madrigali"SV88
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135207
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Violine 2
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135055
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