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	HOASM: Claudio Monteverdi
		Monteverdi accompanied the duke on a foray against the Turks in Austria and Hungary in 1595, and to Flanders in 1599, where the duke went for a cure.
		In 1630 Monteverdi set Strozzi's drama Proserpina rapita; an attack of plague in Venice in 1630-31 and the cessation of commissions from Mantua led to the slackening of his compositional activities.
		Monteverdi died at the age of 76, shortly after returning to Venice from a trip to Cremona, and was buried in the Church of the Frari.
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		There Monteverdi was active in reorganizing and improving the cappella as well as writing music for it, but he was also able to accept commissions from elsewhere, including some from Mantua, for example the ballet Tirsi e Clori (1616) and an opera, La finta pazza Licori (1627, not performed, now lost).
		Monteverdi can be justly considered one of the most powerful figures in the history of music.
		Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, though transmitted in not wholly reliable sources and including music by other men, is his greatest masterpiece and arguably the finest opera of the century.
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	Claudio Monteverdi
		Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 - November 11, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer.
		Monteverdi developed the new style of opera and was fortunate enough to enjoy fame during his lifetime.
		In 1613 Monteverdi was appointed as conductor at the San Marco in Venice, where he soon revived the poor withering choir.
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	Claudio Monteverdi: Biography - Classic Cat
		Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi.
		In 1613 Monteverdi was appointed as conductor at San Marco in Venice, where he soon restored the musical standards of both the choir and instrumentalists, which had withered under the financial mismanagement of his predecessor, Giulio Cesare Martinengo.
		Monteverdi was ordained a Catholic priest in 1632.
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	Claudio Monteverdi Biography
		There Monteverdi was active in reorganizing and improving the cappella as well as writing music for it, but he was also able to accept commissions from elsewhere, including some from Mantua, for example the ballet Tirsi e Clori (1616) and an opera, La finta pazza Licori (1627, not performed, now lost).
		Monteverdi can be justly considered one of the most powerful figures in the history of music.
		Monteverdi's last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, though transmitted in not wholly reliable sources and including music by other men, is his greatest masterpiece and arguably the finest opera of the century.
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	Claudio Monteverdi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Portrait of Claudio Monteverdi in Venice, 1640, by Bernardo Strozzi.
		Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer.
		In 1613 Monteverdi was appointed as conductor at San Marco in Venice, where he soon restored the musical standards of both the choir and instrumentalists, which had withered under the financial mismanagement of his predecessor, Giulio Cesare Martinengo.
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		Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 - November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer.
		Monteverdi developed the new style of opera and was fortunate enough to enjoy fame during his lifetime.
		In 1613 Monteverdi was appointed as conductor at the San Marco in Venice, where he soon revived the poor withering choir.
	wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/c/cl/claudio_monteverdi.html (610 words)

	The Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi
		The Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi Monteverdi: a revolutionary genius by Dominique Olivier Claudio Monteverdi, the father of modern opera, was the revolutionary genius whose work embodied the transition from the polyphonic music of the Renaissance to the stilo moderno of the Baroque period.
		Monteverdi was able to increase dramatic intensity and meaning by using a single melodic line for voice with dramatic orchestral accompaniment to bring about a perfect fusion of words and music.
		Monteverdi reveals to us a new approach to musical language that was to be a profound influence for centuries to come.
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	Claudio Monteverdi at AllExperts
		In 1590 Monteverdi began working at the court of Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua as a vocalist and viol player, and by 1602 he had become conductor there.
		In 1613 Monteverdi was appointed as conductor at San Marco in Venice, where he soon restored the musical standards of both the choir and instrumentalists, which had withered under the financial mismanagement of his predecessor, Giulio Cesare Martinengo.
		Monteverdi was ordained a Catholic priest in 1632.
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	Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
		Monteverdi was born in 1567, in the northern town of Cremona, a small town between Milan and Mantua.
		Monteverdi demonstrated his skill as composer and music director at an audition in August 1613, and was hired on the spot.
		In Monteverdi's time, music was typically published for two reasons: to further one's reputation with the musical cognoscenti, and to ingratiate oneself with a nobleman.
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	OperaWorld.com's Opera Insights: Claudio Monteverdi (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Described as a peppery, impatient man, Monteverdi was never truly happy at the court and had frequent disagreements with the Duke's son Francesco, although it was at Francesco's urging that he wrote L'Orfeo, favola in musica, to a libretto by the court secretary, Alessandro Striggio.
		It is generally believed that Monteverdi was at the peak of his creativity in 1607-08, the years he composed,Orfeo and then a new opera, Arianna, and a dance work with singing, Il ballo delle ingrate, both for the wedding of Francesco.
		Although Monteverdi was extremely popular in his day, his music was virtually forgotten until the first half of the 19th century, when Carl von Winterfield researched and published a study on Giovanni Gabrieli and rediscovered Monteverdi's works in the process.
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	Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
		Claudio Monteverdi’s musical career began at the Court of Mantua in 1601, where he spent twelve years as maestro to the Duke Vincenzo I. Possessing a close relationship with the Court, Monteverdi married Claudie de Cattaneis in 1599, who was one of the court singers.
		Monteverdi also wrote church music and some secular madrigals during these years, but he is primarily remembered for helping Venice become the opera center of the western world.
		With Monteverdi’s death in 1643, he was buried at the Fratri church in Venice and a plaque was given in his honor.
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	Claudio Monteverdi biography - 8notes.com
		Claudio Monteverdi (May 15, 1567 (baptised) – November 29, 1643) was an Italian composer, violinist and singer.
		Monteverdi wrote the earliest dramatically viable opera, Orfeo, and was fortunate enough to enjoy fame during his lifetime.
		Monteverdi produced his first music for publication—some motets and sacred madrigals—in only 1582 and 1583, so he must have been something of a child prodigy.
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	Milestones of the Millennium: Claudio Monteverdi
		Monteverdi bestrode the musical eras we call Renaissance and Baroque, and was the first composer to develop opera to its full dramatic and musical potential.
		To emphasize the wide ranging emotions of his characters, Monteverdi subdued the traditional polyphonic structure of the Renaissance, in which all vocal elements were projected equally.
		Monteverdi exploited dynamics and dissonance to convey human emotion in ways that dazzled audiences and befuddled conservative critics.
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	DoveSong.com. -- The Music of Claudio Monteverdi
		The music of Claudio Monteverdi-- one of the most influential composers of all time-- is a realization of freshness and richness that embodies some of the greatest compositions in Western Classical Music.
		Monteverdi was born in Cremona, Italy in 1567.
		In 1603, Monteverdi became Ingegneri's successor as maestro to the Duke and composed for the wedding of the Duke's son to Margherita of Savoy the opera Ariadne, in which Ariadne's grief moved the audience to tears.
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	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Although Monteverdi can be viewed as both a composer of the Renaissance and of the Baroque, there is a continuity that runs through his works in both styles.
		Monteverdi was a dramatic composer, bringing a depth of meaning from the text he set that turned each of his pieces into a convincing musical and dramatic statement.
		Monteverdi wrote in a style that he called the seconda prattica, a description he used to separate himself from the more conservative tradition of Palestrina and his contemporaries.
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	Claudio Monteverdi Summary
		Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was an Italian composer who, in addition to being the first great operatic writer, reflected in his works, especially the madrigals, the change in style from late Renaissance to early baroque.
		Monteverdi's influence, both before and after his death, was not commensurate with the high esteem in which he was held by the discerning few; thus he left no "school," and the only significant composer who can be called his pupil was Heinrich Schütz.
		The reason for this comparative lack of influence was probably Monteverdi's serious cast of mind and a strong tinge of conservatism that mitigated his continuing in the vanguard throughout a period which was, perhaps, the most dichotomous in the history of music and during which taste and fashion changed rapidly.
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	Claudio Monteverdi - ChoralWiki (Site not responding. Last check: )
		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.
		Claudio (Giovanni Antonio) Monteverdi was born in Cremona in 1567, and baptised – probably at an age of several days – on the 15th of May. Monteverdi's father Baldassare was a chemist and also practiced medicine; his mother Maddalena (née Zignani) died young, and Baldassare married twice more.
		Monteverdi's final years at Mantua were dominated by the composition of a series of dramatic works and unhappiness in his personal life, while the star of his fame ascended ever further.
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	Monteverdi, Claudio: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Claudio Monteverdi began his musical education under Ingegneri as a boy chorister in the cathedral of Cremona.
		At the duke's death in 1613, Monteverdi became Maestro di Cappella at St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice.
		Monteverdi is remembered today primarily for his contributions to opera (including Orfeo and L'incoronazione di Poppea), and to the development of what later came to be known as the baroque style (his fifth book of madrigals being the first to employ basso continuo.
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	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Claudio Monteverdi
		L'incoronazione especially is considered a culminating point of Monteverdi's work.
		Monteverdi was ordained a Catholic priest in 1632.
		Monteverdi composed at least eighteen operas, of which only Orfeo, L'incoronazione, Il ritorno, and the famous aria "Lamento" from his second opera l'Arianna have survived:
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	Claudio Monteverdi Biography - famous Claudio Monteverdi Classical collection and Claudio Monteverdi Music Reviews.
		Born in Cremona in 1567, Claudio Monteverdi served at the court of the Dukes of Mantua from the early 1590s until 1612, when he moved to Venice as maestro di cappella at the basilica of St. Mark, a position he retained until his death in 1643.
		His importance as a proponent of the so-called seconda prattica, the new concerted music characteristic of the early Baroque, is unquestioned, as is his pre-eminence in the development of the new form of opera that sprang from the combination of music and rhetoric in the art of Italian monody.
		The earliest opera to retain a place in modern repertoire is Monteverdi's L'Orfeo, a dramatic version of the story of the legendary Orpheus, the musician who sought to bring his beloved Eurydice back from the Underworld by the power of music.
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	Island of Freedom - Claudio Monteverdi
		Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi, born in Cremona, Italy, was an outstanding figure in the development and perfection of early baroque music.
		In 1637 the first public opera house was opened, and Monteverdi, stimulated by the enthusiastic response to opera, wrote a new series of operas, of which two remain, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses to His Homeland, 1641) and L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppaea, 1642).
		Written in Monteverdi's old age, these operas contain scenes of great dramatic intensity in which the vocal and orchestral music accurately reflect the thoughts and emotions of the characters.
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	Claudio Monteverdi News
		Claudio Monteverdi wrote that 'the modern composer builds his music on the basis of truth,' a sentiment still valid 400 years after he expressed it.
		Claudio Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals, published in Venice in 1638, represent a huge leap forward in compositional technique and approach, following a long gap after previous madrigal collections by...
		Claudio Monteverdi, the innovative master of the early Italian Baroque, knew more about the conflict of love and war -- make that love as war -- than most of today's rock balladeers.
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