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Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7] 1611: Sacred: 2 motets: 2–5 voices: Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7] 1614: Madrigal/song: 107–116: Il sesto libro de madrigali (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 10 pieces, details table L below) 5–7 voices, basso continuo: Monteverdi, Venice 1614, repub. 1615, 1620, 1639
The opera genre emerged during Monteverdi's earlier career, first as courtly entertainment trying to revive Greek theatre. [1] The first known work to be regarded as an opera in the modern sense is Dafne (1598) by Jacopo Peri, and his Euridice (1600) is the earliest surviving one. [2]
There is no clear record of Monteverdi's early musical training, or evidence that (as is sometimes claimed) he was a member of the Cathedral choir or studied at Cremona University. Monteverdi's first published work, a set of motets, Sacrae cantiunculae (Sacred Songs) for three voices, was issued in Venice in 1582, when he was only fifteen years ...
L'Orfeo (SV 318) (Italian pronunciation: [lorˈfɛːo]), or La favola d'Orfeo [la ˈfaːvola dorˈfɛːo], is a late Renaissance/early Baroque favola in musica, or opera, by Claudio Monteverdi, with a libretto by Alessandro Striggio.
In the last twenty years of the 16th century, the madrigalist Luca Marenzio (1553–1599) was an influential composer until Monteverdi's Baroque-era transformation of the madrigal as a musical form. The commemorative statue of the singer and publisher Nicholas Yonge (1560–1619), who introduced madrigals to England.
The collection of various works in different instrumentation was published in Venice in 1640 and 1641. While the 1610 publication summarizes Monteverdi's sacred works written for Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua, Selva morale e spirituale presents works composed at San Marco, Venice, where Monteverdi had served since 1613. [4]
The first mention of the work's publication is in a July 1610 letter by Monteverdi's assistant, Bassano Casola, to Cardinal Ferdinando Gonzaga, the duke's younger son. Casola described that two compositions were in the process to be printed, a six-part mass ( Messa da Capella ) [ 22 ] on motifs from Nicolas Gombert 's In illo tempore , and ...
One of the composer's most popular works, the story is based on a cartoon strip about animals in the Czech countryside. [188] 1925 Doktor Faust (Ferruccio Busoni). Busoni intended this opera to be the climax of his career, but it was left unfinished at his death. [189] 1925 L'enfant et les sortilèges (Maurice Ravel). Conceived as an opera ...