Claudio Monteverdi

Aliases: Claudio Monteverde

Baptised: 15 May 1567

Died: 29 November 1643

Monteverdi's compositional career spans sixty years from the end of the Renaissance to the early Baroque: like Beethoven two centuries later he was the major transitional figure between two distinct musical eras.

He was the first composer to realise the potential of opera for expressing powerful emotions, and he brought to his church music the musical innovations of his madrigal and instrumental style that he continued to refine throughout his lifetime.

Monteverdi's works are sorted below by genre: there are also lists of Monteverdi's works sorted in alphabetical order, or by publication order. You may also wish to see which pages on ChoralWiki link to this page.

Dramatic works

• L'Orfeo, favola in musica, opera (prologue, 5 acts), produced Feb. 1607, pub. 1609, 1615 ( PDF )
• De la Bellezza le dovute lodi, ballet, 3vv+instr, pub. in Scherzi musicali, 1607 ( PDF )
• L'Arianna, opera, 1608 – lost, aside from lament:

· Lamento d'Arianna, 1v, bc, pub. 1623 ( PDF WEB )

• Il ballo delle ingrate, ballet, 4vv, 1608, pub. 1638 ( PDF )
• Prologue to L'Idropica, comedy with music, 1608 – lost
• Tirsi e Clori, ballet, 1616 ( Finale-2005 )
• Le nozze di Tetide, favola marittima, 1616 – work begun and abandoned, lost
• Andromeda, opera, 1618–20 – lost
• Apollo, dramatic cantata – lost
• Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, dramatic scena, 3vv, 2vl, va, vc, hpd, 1624, pub. 1638 ( PDF MIDI Capella )
• La finta pazza Licori, 1627 – lost
• Gli amori di Diana e di Endimione, 1628 – lost
• Mercurio e Marte, torneo, 1628 – lost
• Proserpina rapita, opera, 1630 – lost, aside from trio:

· Come dolce oggi, 3vv, pub. 1651 ( WEB )

• Volgendo il ciel, ballet, ca 1636, pub. 1638 ( PDF MIDI Capella )
• Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, opera, 1640
• Le nozze d'Enea con Lavinia, opera, 1641 – lost
• La vittoria d'Amore, ballet, 1641 – lost
• L'incoronazione di Poppea, opera, 1642

· Amici e giunta l'ora, 1v, 3vv, bc ( Finale-2005 )

· Pur ti miro, 2vv, bc ( Finale-2005 )

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Secular works

Score listing includes number of voices, instruments, and publication date (if known).

• Ahi, com'a un vago sol cortese giro, 5vv, 1605 ( PDF )
• Ah dolente partita, 5vv, 1603 ( PDF MIDI Finale-1998 )
• Alcun non mi consigli, 3vv, 1651 ( PDF )
• Altri canti d'Amor, tenero arciero, 6vv, 2vl, 4vla, 1638 ( PDF MIDI Capella )
• Altri canti di Marte, 6vv, 2vl, 1638 ( WEB MIDI MusiXTeX )
• Anima dolorosa, 5vv, 1603 ( PDF MIDI Finale-2000 )
• Ardo e scoprir, ahi lasso, io non ardisco, 2vv, 1638 ( PDF MIDI Capella )
• Ardo, avvampo, mi struggo, ardo: accorrete, 8vv, 2vl, 1638 ( PDF MIDI Capella )
• Armato i cor d'adamantina fede, 2vv, 1638 ( PDF )
• Baci soavi e cari, 5vv, 1587   ( PDF MIDI Finale-2005 )
• Balletto de la Bellezza le dovute lodi – see above, Dramatic works
• Ballo delle Ingrate – see above, Dramatic works
• Canzonette d'amore, 3vv, 1584 ( WEB MIDI )
• Che se tu se'il cor mio, 5vv, 1603 (&nbs