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    Biography

    Claudio Monteverdi lived in a time of great change, as the vocal polyphony of the Renaissance gave way to the textures of the early Baroque. He harnessed both styles with great skill, sometimes contrasting them in the same work, and wrote successfully in every vocal genre. His liturgical works can be heard as a culmination of the choral traditions of previous centuries. But his operas embody the lyrical and dramatic innovations that were shortly to sweep across Europe. As a court musician, Monteverdi would have composed many dances and ceremonial pieces, yet almost all of his surviving works are for voices. His training with the music director of Cremona Cathedral, Marc’Antonio Ingegneri, included learning several instruments as well as composing and singing. In or he was appointed as a viol player at the court of the Duke of Mantua, Vincenzo inom of Gonzaga. Monteverdi had already published several sets of vocal music, both sacred and secular. The first, Sacrae cantiunculae

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    List of compositions by Claudio Monteverdi

    • Lapidabant Stephanum, SV
    • Veni sponsa Christi, SV
    • Ego sum pastor bonus, SV
    • Surge propera amica mea, SV
    • Ubi duo vel tres congregati fuerint, SV
    • Quam pulchra es et quam decora amica mea, SV
    • Ave Maria gratia plena, SV
    • Domine pater et deus, SV
    • Tu es pastor ovium, SV
    • O magnum pietatis, SV
    • O crux benedicta, SV
    • Hodie Christus natus est, SV
    • O domine Jesu Christe adoro te, SV
    • Pater venit hora clarifica filium tuum, SV
    • In tua patientia possedisti animam tuam, SV
    • Angelus ad pastores ait, SV
    • Salve crux pretiosa, SV
    • Quia vidisti me Thoma credidisti, SV
    • Lauda Syon salvatorem, SV
    • O bone Iesu illumina oculos meos, SV
    • Surgens Iesus dominus noster, SV
    • Qui vult venire post me abneget se, SV
    • Iusti tulerunt spolia impiorum, SV
    • Sacrosancta di Dio veraci imago, SV
    • L'aura del ciel sempre fecond spiri, SV
    • Aventurosa notte, in cui risplende, SV
    • D'empi martiri e un mar d'orrori varca, SV
    • Mentre la stell

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      Claudio Monteverdi

      Claudio Monteverdi (born May 9, ; died November 29, ) can be justly considered one of the most powerful figures in the history of music. Among his most notable works are the operas Orfeo and L’incoronazione di Poppea, and one of the greatest of all sacred pieces, the  Vespers. 

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      1. Mastering Monteverdi’s Orfeo

      2. Gramophone Collection: Monteverdi's Combattimento

      3. Gramophone Collection: Monteverdi's Vespers

      4. Monteverdi today

      Monteverdi studied with Ingegneri, maestro di cappella at Cremona Cathedral, and published several books of motets and madrigals before going to Mantua in about to serve as a string player at the court of Duke Vincenzo Gonzaga.

      There he came under the influence of Giaches de Wert, whom he failed to succeed as maestro di cappella in In he married Claudia de Cattaneis, a court singer, who bore him three children, and two years later he was appointed maestro di cappe