Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both...
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The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), in addition to a large output of church music and madrigals, wrote prolifically for the stage. His...
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L'Orfeo (redirect from Orfeo (Monteverdi))
is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. It is based on the Greek...
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Bolzano (section Conservatory "Claudio Monteverdi")
competition was initiated by the director of the Conservatory of Music "Claudio Monteverdi" in memory of the 25th anniversary of the death of Ferruccio Busoni...
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Claudio Monteverdi was active as a composer for almost six decades in the late 16th and early seventeenth centuries, essentially the period of period of...
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The Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) wrote several works for the stage between 1604 and 1643, including ten in the then-emerging opera genre...
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instrumental accompaniment; and the concertato madrigal, of which Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) was the most famous composer. In Naples, the compositional...
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Beata Vergine and motets by Giovanni Gabrieli, Giovanni Bassano & Claudio Monteverdi (2 CDs) — 1994 — Decca Gloria in D major, RV 589 — 2001 — Philips...
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the southern edge of Basel, Switzerland. Peter Monteverdi, a descendant of composer Claudio Monteverdi, first made his name as a racecar driver. During...
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L'incoronazione di Poppea (category Operas by Claudio Monteverdi)
308, The Coronation of Poppaea) is an Italian opera by Claudio Monteverdi. It was Monteverdi's last opera, with a libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello...
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lost Dafne, produced in Florence in 1598) especially from works by Claudio Monteverdi, notably L'Orfeo, and soon spread through the rest of Europe: Heinrich...
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(Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is a musical setting by Claudio Monteverdi of the evening vespers on Marian feasts, scored for soloists, choirs...
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the Baroque period. Other key composers of the Baroque era include Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Tomaso...
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Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (category Operas by Claudio Monteverdi)
consisting of a prologue and five acts (later revised to three), set by Claudio Monteverdi to a libretto by Giacomo Badoaro. The opera was first performed at...
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Euridice, an opera by Christoph Willibald Gluck L'Orfeo (1607), by Claudio Monteverdi, widely regarded as the first operatic masterwork La Descente d'Orphée...
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L'Arianna (category Operas by Claudio Monteverdi)
L'Arianna (SV 291, Ariadne) is the lost second opera by Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi. One of the earliest operas in general, it was composed in 1607–1608...
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in Venice 1643 in music – death of Claudio Monteverdi 1642 in music – L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, premiered in Venice 1641 in music...
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Portrait of an Actor (section Claudio Monteverdi)
Martinelli, and the composer Claudio Monteverdi. Of these, apart from Martinelli, only two, Giovanni Gabrielli and Monteverdi gained wide currency. Brüiningk...
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an extraordinarily talented amateur, one who was admired even by Claudio Monteverdi. The references to Saracini as "Il Palusi" seem to indicate that he...
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Stile antico (section Monteverdi's era)
pratica was first used during the conflict between Giovanni Artusi and Claudio Monteverdi about the new musical style. For 18th-century composers such as Johann...
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city, and profoundly improved the city. In the late 16th century, Claudio Monteverdi came to Mantua from his native Cremona. He worked for the court of...
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Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 9, 2019. Monteverdi, Claudio (1980). The letters of Claudio Monteverdi. Cambridge New York: Cambridge University Press...
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the Venetian School, and the birth of opera through figures like Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) in Florence. In philosophy, thinkers such as Galileo,...
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Handl Heinrich Isaac Clément Janequin Orlandus Lassus Luca Marenzio Claudio Monteverdi Cristóbal de Morales Thomas Morley Jean Mouton Johannes Ockeghem Jacopo...
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Marguerite Leoš Janáček : The sly little vixen – Sly little vixen Claudio Monteverdi : L'incoronazione di Poppea - Drusilla Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : The...
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Genere concitato) or "agitated style" is a Baroque style developed by Claudio Monteverdi with effects such as having rapid repeated notes and extended trills...
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Claudio Monteverdi was an Italian composer. Monteverdi may also refer to: Monteverdi (automobile), a Swiss automobile brand Monteverdi (horse), an Irish-trained...
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La Venexiana (redirect from Claudio Cavina)
Venosa, and Claudio Monteverdi. The ensemble has later broadened to be the base of Cavina's productions and recordings of operas by Monteverdi and Francesco...
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word also covered performed pieces like Il ballo delle ingrate by Claudio Monteverdi (1608). French developed the verb baller, and the noun bal for the...
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the works of a composer he initially refused to name (it was Claudio Monteverdi). Monteverdi replied in the introduction to his fifth book of madrigals...
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