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 ...

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 ...

LENOX -- Listen to Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi's 1610 "Vespero della beata vergine," and you can literally hear a changing of the musical guard from the Renaissance to the Baroque period ...

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JACK GALLAGHER: Diversions Overture (1986). Berceuse (1977). Sinfonietta for String Orchestra (1990, expanded 2007). Symphony in One Movement: Threnody (1991, revised 2008). JoAnn Falletta conducting ...

Every artist needs a portfolio - especially one who's hoping to move into the job market - and it was just 400 years ago that the composer Claudio Monteverdi came out with one for the record books.

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Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) was the first great opera composer. Opera Collective Ireland, whose productions give a platform to young, professional singers, and the Kilkenny Arts Festival are ...