I suppose the reason Claudio Monteverdi is my favorite composer is that I've always enjoyed the combination and the tension of words and music. I'm a little late getting on the Monteverdi birthday bus ...

A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center. By Zachary Woolfe “The Comet/Poppea” radically pares ...

Claudio Monteverdi was a musical revolutionary. Over the course of music’s history, few composers have had a more radical impact on their art than the Italian, whose 450th birthday will be celebrated ...

Monteverdi’s music is inventive, dynamic, stirring, tender, and heart-rending. Centuries after he wrote it, his music is still full of surprises. Monteverdi is famous for writing the first recognised ...

Claudio Monteverdi is undoubtedly one of the most important figures in the development of Western music. As a composer of both secular and sacred music, over the course of his career he worked for ...

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Is it possible for one person to invent an entire form of art? It would seem like a tall order by any standard. For example, there is cave art as old as 30,000 years -- the earliest paintings ever ...

Monteverdi studied with Ingegneri, maestro di cappella at Cremona Cathedral, and published several books of motets and madrigals before going to Mantua in about 1591 to serve as a string player at the ...

Claudio Monteverdi's Vespers have certainly stood the test of time. For music to survive four hundred years and to remain popular is not only quite remarkable but also testament to its innate quality.

Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Show more Donald Macleod looks at five themes in Claudio Monteverdi's life through the letters he wrote. Claudio ...