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.
13. Tra mille fiamme e tra mille catene
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629530
3. A che tormi il ben mio
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629502
for: Choir
Item no.: 1629496
5. Baci soavi e cari
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629412
(Crudel! Perche mi fuggi?)
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850648
9. Ch’io t’ami, e t’ami più de la mia vita - Prima parte
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1204121
"In Illo Tempore" à 6
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Mixed choir (SSATBB) [6 voices] a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 392186
Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 409582
from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII, Venezia 1638
for: 8 Gesang (SSAATTBB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 446486
(Venezia 1587)
Complete Madrigals 1
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 446429
Madrigali. Libro VIII (Venezia 1638) Vol. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 366531
Monteverdi Gesamtausgabe 13
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 124514
for: für Sopran, Streicher und Orgel oder Cembalo
Score
Item no.: 113245
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 113099
Gesamtausgabe
for: für 1, 2, 3, 4 und 6 Stimmen und Instrumente
Partitur
Item no.: 188767
Selva morale e spirituale II
Monteverdi Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 163648
Drei- bis achtstimmige Bearbeitungen
for: Brass ensemble
Ensemble score
Item no.: 775602
aus Band 6 der GA
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1676947
aus der Oper "L´Orfeo"
(Ausgabe in B-, C- und D-Dur)
for: Trumpet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1631783
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 207530
Vom Madrigal zur Monodie
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 278784
Monteverdi-Rezeption und frühes Musiktheater im deutschsprachigen Raum
Perspektiven der Opernforschung 3
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 206659
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 635776
L'incoronazione di Poppea
for: Voice (alto/mezzo-soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 743785
Score
Item no.: 1337386
aus Il secondo libro de madrigali 1590
for: SSATB
Score
Item no.: 1338206
aus Il quarto libro de madrigali 1603
for: SSATB
Score
Item no.: 1338201
aus Libro primo de Motetti, ed. G. C. Bianchi 1620
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1338195
Selva morale et spirituale (1641)
for: 1-stimmig, Klavier
Score
Item no.: 1338106
for: 3 voices [women's choir] (SSA)
Choir score
Item no.: 861966
aus der Oper L'Orfeo
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670980
5 Bfl
for: BFL QUINTETT (AATTB)
Item no.: 131408
in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verlag Reclam
Book
Item no.: 666924
Love Duet from Monteverdis last opera "L'Incoronazione di Poppea"
Choral Music Experience
for: Women's choir (2 parts), piano
Score
Item no.: 1654428
Két canzonetta
for: Women's choir (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 850920
for: Mixed choir (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 850741
Oxford Choral Classics Octavos
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 363738
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 624972
for: Choir
Item no.: 613638
Sätze in hohen Schlüsseln
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo (Alte solo (2)), Tenöre solo (3), Bässe solo (2), Gemischter Chor:SSATTB, Gemischte Chöre (2):SATTB, Zink (3), Violinen (3), Violen (3), Cello, Kontrabass, Flöten (2), Blockflöten (2), Posaunen (3), Bass-Posaune (tief), (Orgel, Basso continuo)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 873109
Acht Madrigale
for: SAATB
Choir score
Item no.: 989784
8. Tutte le bocche belle
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204123
3. Bevea Fillide mia
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204110
16. Sì, ch’io vorrei morire
for: SAATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204109
10. Poi ch’ella in sé tornò, deserto e muto - Terza e ultima parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629777
21. Arsi ed alsi a mia voglia - Contrarisposta
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629767
Set of parts
Item no.: 1629753
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