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.
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 275
Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, ATTB), basso continuo; 8 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 666995
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 270
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSTTB) [5 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 666987
aus Band 6 der GA
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 164124
Gesamtausgabe
for: für 1, 3 oder 5 Singstimmen und Instrumente
Partitur
Item no.: 332874
aus: Selva morale et spirituale
SV 268
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 666980
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315043
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/2 der GA
for: für Chor SSAATTBB (davon ATB auch solistisch) und Basso continuo
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 1135033
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 934350
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261955
for: 5 Stimmen (SSATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 361276
15. Vivrò fra i miei tormenti e le mie cure - Prima parte
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629377
2. Cor mio, mentre vi miro
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204131
10. Voi pur da me partite, anima dura
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204117
6. Intorno a due vermiglie e vaghe labra
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629394
9. Donna, nel mio ritorno il mio pensiero
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1204141
6. Oimè il bel viso, oimè ’l soave sguardo
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1629510
17. Anima dolorosa, che vivendo
for: SSATB Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 1629359
Psalm from the vesper of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 1610
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SAB) und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 794035
Score
Item no.: 549830
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666527
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 666486
for: Voice (alto), organ
Score
Item no.: 371065
for: Soli SSATTBB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), SATB, Flöten (2), 2 Fifari, 3 Ctto, Posaunen (3), Violinen (2), Violen (3), Cello, Vn, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1337389
Score
Item no.: 1338197
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), SATB, 4, 8 Melodieinstrumente, Orgel, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1340254
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 213196
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 301131
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 860787
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 261954
for: 3. Viola
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 879186
for: 1. Flöte, 2. Flöte, 1. Zink (3. Zink), 2. Zink (3. Zink), 1. Posaune, 2. Posaune, 3. Posaune, Bass-Posaune (tief)
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 882275
for: für Chor SATB und Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1135379
for: Soprano Mezzo-Soprano Bass Voice String Instruments Organ Acc.
Book
Item no.: 321479
for: Brass ensemble; voice (soprano) ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 413056
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 850784
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 136463
Favola in musica in one prologue and five acts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671190
Sancta Maria Ora Pro Nobis
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1584440
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
Rekkenze Brass Quintet 2
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1022855
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
G
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1478713
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902764
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314869
for: SSATTB Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Conductor score
Item no.: 1585046
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
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