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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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  • 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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    the Baroque period. Other key composers of the Baroque era include Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Alessandro Stradella, Tomaso...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • The earliest major opera composer is generally considered to be Claudio Monteverdi, who wrote the first prominent opera, L'Orfeo, followed by two others...
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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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    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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    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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  • 1967), Italian voice actor Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643), Italian composer Claudio Morandini (born 1960), Italian writer Claudio Morel (born 1978), Paraguayan...
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  • Possente spirto (category Compositions by Claudio Monteverdi)
    ("Mighty spirit and formidable god") is a key aria from Act 3 of Claudio Monteverdi's opera L'Orfeo, where Orpheus attempts to persuade Charon to allow...
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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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  • 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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    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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