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Composer

Claudio Monteverdi

Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest (1567–1643)

1567–1643

528 works in the index

Born
1567
Died
1643
Birthplace
Cremona
Citizenship / historical state
Republic of Venice
Period (estimated from birth year)
Renaissance

Biography

Claudio Monteverdi, the great Italian composer of the early Baroque period, was born on May 15, 1567 in Cremona, east of Milan. He was a gambist, that is, a performer on the viola da gamba, a stringed instrument central to the music of his time.

In 1607, Monteverdi composed L’Orfeo, to a libretto by Alessandro Striggio. This is an operatic re-telling of the classical legend of Orpheus, who descended into Hades in an unsuccessful attempt to bring his beloved Eurydice back to the world of the living. L’Orfeo remains in the operatic repertoire today.

Monteverdi is also remembered for his sacred music, notably his Vesper Psalms, which some musicologists see as foreshadowing Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s St Matthew Passion.

His final work was L’incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea), composed in 1642, the year before his death. This, too, survives as part of the operative canon.

In this catalogue

Common listed instruments
Voice, Piano, violin, Choir, Viola
Genres represented
Classical
Works with composition dates
11 of 528

These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.

Catalogue

Works page 11 of 11

Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.

Works and available sheet music details
WorkYear composedCatalogue / opusKey in titleListed instrumentsGenreEditions
Ecco la sconsolata donna from L'INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA — —— —Classical —
Sciagurata, hai tu creduto... O speranza from I LOMBARDI — —— —Classical —
Il mio sangue, la vita darei from LUISA MILLER — —— —Classical —
Di due figlia vivea, padre beato from IL TROVATORE — —— —Classical —
La Mia Letizia Infondere Vorrei From I Lombardi — —— PianoClassical —
I Vespri Siciliani — —— PianoClassical —
Ben io t'invenni from NABUCCO — —— VoiceClassical —
Christe, redemptor omnium Performed by Claudio Monteverdi — —— Voice, ChoirClassical —
Uldino! Uldin! - Mentre gonfiarsi l'anima — —— VoiceClassical —
Come In Quest Ora Bruna — —— PianoClassical —
Il Lamento d'Arianna' from L'Arianna — —— —— —
"Adagiati, Opppea', 'Oblivion soave' from L'Incoronazione di Poppea" — —— Piano, Low VoiceClassical 1
La vita e inferno all'infelice...O tu che in seno agli angeli from LA FORZA DEL DESTINO — —— VoiceClassical —
Se quell guerrier io fossi!...Celeste Aida from AIDA — —— VoiceClassical —
Ah! Si, ben mio...Di quella pira from IL TROVATORE — —— VoiceClassical —
Ciel che feci from OBERTO, CONTE DI SAN BONIFACIO — —— VoiceClassical —
Ah, la paterna mano from MACBETH — —— VoiceClassical —
Oh! fede negar potessi...Quando le sere al placido from LUISA MILLER — —— VoiceClassical —
Ella mi fu rapita!...Parmi veder le lagrime from RIGOLETTO — —— VoiceClassical —
Di quella pira from IL TROVATORE — —— VoiceClassical —
Lunge da lei...De' miei bollenti spiriti from LA TRAVIATA — —— VoiceClassical —
O inferno! Amelia qui!...Sento avvampar nell'anima from SIMON BOCCANEGRA — —— VoiceClassical —
Fontainbleau! Foret immense...Je l'ai vue from DON CARLOS — —— VoiceClassical —
Dio! Mi potevi scagliar tutti I mali from OTELLO — —— VoiceClassical —
Lauda Jerusalem - Vespers — —— ChoirClassical —
Il Lamento D'arianna Performed by Claudio Monteverdi — —— —— —
Interrotte Sperance — —— Piano, violinClassical —
Libiamo from LA TRAVIATA — —— Cello, violin, Voice, ViolaClassical —
Ave Maria — —— Voice, ChoirClassical —
Lauda Sion — —— Voice, ChoirClassical —
L'orfeo Prologo — —— PianoClassical —
Ensemble — —— —Classical 1
Introduzione — —— —Classical 1
Introduction — —— —Classical 1
L'Orfeo: Favola In Musica SV.318 — —— —Classical —
Il Ritorno D'ulisse In Patria (The Return Of Ulysses) — —— —Classical —
Agnus Dei — —— bass, Tenor, AltoClassical —
L' Incoronazione Di Poppea — —— —Classical —
3 Madrigali — —— —Classical —
Mass For Four Voices — —— —Classical —
Libretto — —— Voice, Orchestra— 1
Critical Commentary — —— Voice, Orchestra— 1
Con che soavitˆ, labbra — —— Piano— 1
Mit welchem Genu§ — —— Piano— 1
Mit welchem Genu§, ihr blŸhenden Lippen — —— Piano— 1
Qui pependit in cruce — —— —— 1
Pulchrae sunt genae tuae — —— —— 1
Spernit Deus cor durum — —— —— 1

Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. Authority record: VIAF 44485902. Portrait: Bernardo Strozzi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.