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, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 858505
for: Mixed choir (5 voices), basso continuo
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 293969
for: Voice and Instrumental
Score
Item no.: 992509
(Urtext)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 428088
for: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615924
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 852476
for: Brass ensemble; voice (soprano) ad lib.
Single part voice
Item no.: 820463
for: 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones
Buch
Item no.: 1158426
Hans Werner Henzes Bearbeitung von Claudio Monteverdis "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria"
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 247538
Drei Gitarren oder Gitarrenorchester
for: 3 guitars
Score, Parts
Item no.: 185437
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 646617
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1194027
Legi P.Leg
for: Voice
Choir score
Item no.: 1172298
Critical Performing Edition
for: Voice, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 430881
Meisterwerke Der Musik Im Faksimile 1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
PART LN GEB / FAKSIMILE
Item no.: 246118
Madrigali - aus Band 8/1 der GA
for: für 6 Singstimmen SSATTB, 2 Violinen und Basso continuo Violine 1
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135109
Nr. 11 aus "Vespro della beata vergine"
for: für einstimmigen Chor (S) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 113344
from Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi. Libro VIII, Venezia 1638
for: 8 Gesang (SSAATTBB), 2 Violinen und Basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 1629613
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor STTTB, 2 Violinen und Basso continuo Violine 2
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135264
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor STTTB, 2 Violinen und Basso continuo Violoncello
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135238
Musica religiosa - aus Band 15/1 der GA
for: für Chor SSATTBB, 2 Violinen, 4 Posaunen (4 Viole da brazzo) und Basso continuo Violine 1
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1135096
Nr. 4 aus "Vespro della Beata Vergine"
for: für 2 Soprane, 2 Tenöre, 2 Bässe, 2 gemischte Chöre (SATB) und Orchester
Vokalpartitur
Item no.: 1135474
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 354323
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 836429
Score
Item no.: 390048
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
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for: GCH (STB) 2 VL BC
Score
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for: Vocal Solo, Choir and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 820326
for: 2 Trumpets and 2 Trombones
Buch
Item no.: 1152638
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676270
Kantate (Psalm 117)
for: Organ [harpsichord]
Single part(n)
Item no.: 421758
Kantate (Psalm 117)
for: Violin
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421756
for: für Sopran,Streicher und Orgel Viola
Single part
Item no.: 1135143
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676273
Kantate (Psalm 117)
Single part Trombone 1, 2
Item no.: 421753
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236100
for: für Sopran,Streicher und Orgel Violine 2
Single part
Item no.: 1135436
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 676271
Kantate (Psalm 117)
for: Violin
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421755
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676275
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676274
for: für Sopran,Streicher und Orgel Violine 1
Single part
Item no.: 1135262
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236098
Kantate (Psalm 117)
for: POS 3 4
Single part(n)
Item no.: 421754
aus: Selva morale e spirituale
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236099
Marienvesper SV 206
Urtext
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676272
for: für Sopran,Streicher und Orgel Violoncello
Single part
Item no.: 1135566
Kantate (Psalm 117)
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421757
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