Monteverdi: Memories

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Katharina Bäuml
Margaret Hunter
Viktoria Wilson
Jaro Kirchgessner
Martin Logar
Minsub Hong

Julian Popken
Capella de la Torre
Claudio Monteverdi

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Composer's Artistic Vision

Claudio Monteverdi introduced the idea of a 'seconda pratica', a new understanding of music that aimed to deeply move listeners with anguished and painful dissonances.

Composition History

Monteverdi's Ballo delle ingrate, first performed in 1608, was published for the first time thirty years later in his Eighth Book of Madrigals.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Monteverdi's late publications, the Eighth Book of Madrigals (1638) and Selva morale e spirituale (1641), served as his artistic legacy, documenting his claims as the inventor of many musical ideas.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Monteverdi claimed to have invented the compositional method 'canto alla francese' (singing in the French manner), which he learned in Spa and introduced to Italian music.

Compositional Technique

Monteverdi developed the Scherzo as a distinct musical genre, characterized by sophisticated simplicity in harmony, rhythm, and word-setting, often with instrumental ritornellos.

Compositional Technique

Monteverdi is credited with inventing the 'walking bass', a musical line of regular crotchets in instrumental music, which was later revived in jazz, blues, and pop music.

Composer Biography

Monteverdi worked as a court musician in Mantua from 1590, initially as a performer on the vivuola or viola da braccio, and later became maestro della musica in 1601.