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.
Cruda Amarilli
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 743834
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 861068
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.: 1657551
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Buch
Item no.: 859479
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671190
Rekkenze Brass Quintet 2
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1022855
G
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1478713
Cantio Sacra 69
Geistliche Solokantaten
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 136798
und Ut queant laxis (SV279a) – für zwei Soprane, zwei Violinen und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale – Urtext
for: 2 voices (SS), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 667020
Favola In Musica SV.318
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 293842
Salmi II
Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
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Motetti, Hinni, Salve Regina
Urtext
for: 1-3 Singstimmen, Basso Continuo, teilweise mit 2 Violinen
Score
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aus Il secondo libro de madrigali 1590
for: SSATB
Score
Item no.: 1338207
aus Il quinto libro de madrigali 1605
for: SSATB, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1338199
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 148369
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB Brass Instruments String Instruments Organ Accompaniment
Book
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Hinshaw Secular
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Choir score
Item no.: 902764
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314869
Oper/Operette
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Book
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Amor Lamento Della Ninfa
for: 4-Part Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 992585
Klassik
for: 5-Part Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 853718
for: SSATTB Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Conductor score
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for: SSATTB Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Choir score
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for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
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Nr. 3 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für Singstimme
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1135555
17. Amor s’il tuo ferire
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629499
7. Ecco, piegando le genocchie a terra - Quarta parte
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629426
17. Io pur verrò là dove sete - Terza e ultima parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629403
9. Là tra ’l sangue e le morti egro giacente - Seconda parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629401
12. Che dar più vi poss’io?
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629781
11. S’andasse Amor a caccia
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629741
12. Mentr’io mirava fiso
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629731
2. O come è gran martire
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629712
Item no.: 1629680
5. Non giacinti o narcisi
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629663
18. Anima del cor mio
for: SAATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629658
für fünf Stimmen
Monteverdi-Gesamtausgabe Bd. 3
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 457140
Ballo a 5 con doi Violini from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII, Venezia 1638
for: 5 Gesang (SSATB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 446601
Madrigali. Libro VIII (Venezia 1638) Vol. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 554141
Score
Item no.: 471895
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: 2. Violine
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 875716
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: 3. Violine
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 870481
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 Band 6 der GA
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 189710
Gesamtausgabe
for: für 3 Singstimmen und Instrumente
Partitur
Item no.: 124510
Madrigal-Zyklus
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 409539
Musiche Varie – Musik des 17. Jahrhunderts
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SSATTB, SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 633100
Marienvesper
for: Soli SSATTBB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), SATB, Flöten (2), 2 Fifari, 3 Ctto, Posaunen (3), Violinen (2), Violen (3), Cello, Vn, Basso continuo
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1336975
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