Claudio Monteverdi
Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)
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ItalyHe stood at the hinge where Renaissance polyphony gave way to something new: the basso continuo, the operatic stage, the Baroque. His 1607 L'Orfeo remains the oldest opera still in repertory, and the controversy he sparked—defending his seconda pratica against the old guard—marks the moment one musical world became another.
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Baptized in Cremona in May 1567, Monteverdi trained there before spending two decades at the Mantuan court, then moved to Venice around 1613 to lead music at San Marco until his death in 1643. He wrote nine books of madrigals, major sacred works like the 1610 Vespers, and three surviving operas—L'Orfeo in 1607, then late Venetian works Il ritorno d'Ulisse and L'incoronazione di Poppea. Much of his stage output is lost. His letters trace the grind of patronage, income, and politics for a working composer. Forgotten through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, his music returned to stages ea…
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- Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi libro ottavo1995
- Orfeo1995
- Baroque, Vol. 7: Choral Works1995
- Lamento d'Arianna1995
- Maria-Vespers1995
- Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda / Ballo delle ingrate / Tirsi e Clori1995
- Vespers of the Blessed Virgin1995
- Madrigali amorosi / Madrigali guerrieri / Missa in illo tempore1994
- Arie e Duetti1993
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- Pantheon 2.0High confidencedatabase · pantheon.world
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