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.
6. Se pur non mi consenti
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629491
1. Ah, dolente partita
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204139
for: Voice
Choir score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
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2 treble Strings or Woodwinds
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Choir score
Item no.: 1150188
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 166808
'Ed e pur dunque vero'
for: Voice (soprano), violin, piano
Score
Item no.: 277108
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 442971
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 257899
for: Chamber ensemble
Set of parts
Item no.: 992391
Walton Choral
for: SSATTB
Choir score
Item no.: 985579
for Triple Brass Quintet
for: Brass ensemble (15 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 805766
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 237177
Vesperae Beatae Mariae Virginis
for: 6 soloists (SSATTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 647992
Nr. 10 aus "Vespro della beata vergine"
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Choir score
Item no.: 113343
SV 89 (1603) Madrigal aus Il quarto libro de madrigali
Möseler Chorreihe 57
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 817526
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
Madrigali - aus Band 3 der GA
for: für Chor SSATB
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135228
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
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
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236099
Kantate (Psalm 117)
for: POS 3 4
Single part(n)
Item no.: 421754
aus: Vespro della Beata Vergine (Marienvesper)
Transponierte Fassung (eine Quarte tiefer), Tonart d-dorisch
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 661167
aus Band 15/3 der GA
Monteverdi GA
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 166563
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 236103
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 236101
Geistliche Musik
for: SATB, Brass Instruments, String Instruments, Organ Accompaniment
Score
Item no.: 550495
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236104
für Sopran (Tenor) und Bc
for: Voice (high), basso continuo
Music score
Item no.: 281996
für Soli (TT), gemischten Chor (SATTB) und Basso continuo
aus: Selva morale et spirituale – Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATTB) [5 solo voices], basso continuo; 5 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 666524
Régi mesterek vegyeskarai 25
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 822621
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 935109
O Cross Most Blessed
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1158177
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 641394
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 268
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Piano reduction
Item no.: 662997
Vespro Della Beata Vergine
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 461346
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 131826
for: Chamber ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1127234
mit 30 Abbildungen und zahlreichen Notenbeispielen
Große Komponisten und ihre Zeit 20
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 170738
2 Trompeten, Horn, Posaune & Tuba
for: Brass quintet
Sheet music
Item no.: 596995
SATB
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984865
Oper/Operette
for: Opera Libretto
Book
Item no.: 907340
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 630275
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 623427
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