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: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1173014
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 237177
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135228
aus Band 15/2 der GA
for: für Chor SATTB und Basso continuo Violoncello
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1134822
Nr. 7 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für Alt, 2 Tenöre und Basso continuo
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1135455
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Viola 2
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135249
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GASV267
for: für Chor SSATB, Streicher und Basso continuo Violine 3
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135048
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Violoncello 3
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135034
for: Voice (soprano), violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 277108
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 442971
for: SSATTB
Choir score
Item no.: 985579
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 166808
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 992391
for: Brass ensemble (15 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 805766
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817526
for: für 2 gemischte Chöre (SSAATBB) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 113343
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 257899
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1150188
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 647992
Qui Pependit
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1172299
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1193985
for: Opera
Buch
Item no.: 1136898
for: Choir
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 387525
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
Madrigali amorosi
Set of parts
Item no.: 1629441
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1134958
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Posaune 1
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135494
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
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der Monteverdi Gesamtausgabe
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Posaune 3 (Violoncello 1 ad lib.)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1134817
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135002
for: Viola da gamba
Score
Item no.: 390825
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 836473
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
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
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135366
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135239
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135377
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GASV267
for: für Chor SSATB, Streicher und Basso continuo Violine 2
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135253
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
Nr. 8 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für 2 gemischte Chöre (SAATB) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 1134854
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