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List of compositions by Claudio Monteverdi

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Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi

Claudio Monteverdi was active as a composer for almost six decades in the late 16th and early seventeenth centuries, essentially the period of transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or other documentary evidence of the music's one-time existence.

In the "Voices/instrumentation" column of the chronological list, S= soprano, A= alto, T= tenor, Bar= baritone, B= Bass. The "SV" numbers are as per the Stattkus-Verzeichnis catalogue, first published in 1985 and revised in 2006.

Chronological list of compositions

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Year[1] Genre SV number[1] Title[1] Voices/instrumentation[1] Publication history[1] Other information Refs
1582 Sacred 207–229 Sacrae cantiunculae, liber primus (23 pieces, details table A below) 3 voices S, A and T Monteverdi, Venice 1582
1583 Sacred 179–189 Madrigali spirituali (11 pieces, details table B below) 4 voices Monteverdi, Brescia 1583 Only bass partbook survives. Text: Fulvio Rorario [2]
1584 Madrigal/song 1–21 Canzonette, libro primo (21 pieces, details table C below) 3 voices using Treble, S, A and T combinations Monteverdi, Venice 1584
1587 Madrigal/song 23–39 Madrigali, libro primo (First Book of Madrigals, 17 pieces, details table D below) 5 voices Monteverdi, Venice 1587, repub. 1607, 1621 Text: Battista Guarini, Giovanni Battista Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Bonardo and others [2]
1590 Madrigal/song 40–59 Il secondo libro de madrigali (Second Book of Madrigals, 20 pieces, details table E below) 5 voices Monteverdi, Venice 1590, repub. 1607, 1621 Texts: Torquato Tasso, Girolamo Casoni, Guarini and others [3]
1592 Madrigal/song 60–74 Il terzo libro de madrigali (Third Book of Madrigals, 15 pieces, details table F below) 5 voices Venice 1592, repub. 1594, 1600, 1604, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1621 Texts: Tasso, Guarini and others [3]
1594 Madrigal/song 309, 314, 324, 331 Il primo libro delle canzonette a 3 voci (4 pieces, details table G below) 3 voices using Treble, S, Bar, and B combinations Morsolino, Venice 1594 Texts: Scipio Cerreto and others [3]
1603 Madrigal/song 75–93 Il quarto libro de madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals, 19 pieces, details table H below) 5 voices Monteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1605, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1622, 1644 Texts: Tasso, Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and others [4]
1604–05 Dramatic Endimione (ballet) Music and text lost [4][5]
1605 Madrigal/song In nuovo fioretti a 3 voci 3 voices SSB, basso continuo Franzoni, Venice 1605
1605 Madrigal/song 94–106 Il quinto libro de madrigali (Fifth Book of Madrigals, 13 pieces, details table I below) Mainly 5 voices, basso continuo Monteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1606, 1610, 1611, 1613, 1615, 1620, 1643. Jacobsen, Egtved 1985 Texts: Guarini and others [4]
1607 Dramatic 318 Orfeo (favola in musica) Monteverdi, Venice 1609, repub. 1615. Tarr, Paris 1974 Text: Alessandro Striggio. First perf. Mantua 24 February 1607 [4][5]
1607 Dramatic 245 "De la belleza le dovute lodi" (ballet) Venice 1609, repub. 1607 in Scherzi musicali Text Striggio or Francesco Gonzaga [4][6]
1607 Madrigal/song 230–245 Scherzi musicali (16 pieces, details table J below) 3 voices, basso continuo, 2 violins Monteverdi, Venice 1607 Text: Gabriello Chiabrera, Ansaldo Cebà and others [4]
1608 Dramatic 291 Arianna (tragedia in musica) Text pub. Florence, Mantua, Venice 1608. Text: Rinuccini. First perf. 28 May 1608. Music lost exc. Lamento d'Arianna SV22, pub. 1614 and 1623 [7][6]
1608 Dramatic Prologue to intermedio: "Ha cento lustri con etereo giri" Text Chiabrera. First perf. 2 June 1608. Music lost. [7][8]
1608 Dramatic 167 Mascherata dell'ingrate (ballet) Text pub. Mantua 1608 Text: Rinuccini. First perf. 4 June 1608. Rev. and pub. 1638 in Eighth Book [7][8]
1608 Madrigal/song 319, 329 G. de Wert: Il duodecimo libro de madrigali: "Pensier aspro e crudele"; "Sdegno la fiamma estinse" Venice 1608 Text: Orsina Cavaletta. Bass partbook only survives [7]
1610 Sacred Missa da capella a sei voci, fatta sopra il mottetto in illo tempore del Gomberti 6 voices SSATTB, organ Venice 1610
1610 Sacred 205–206 Sanctissimae Virgini missa senis vocibus... incl. Vespro della Beata Vergine (15 pieces, details table K below) 10 voices, basso continuo, inst. ensemble Venice 1610
1611 Sacred Dixit Dominus 8 voices Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7]
1611 Sacred 2 motets 2–5 voices Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7]
1614 Madrigal/song 107–116 Il sesto libro de madrigali (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 10 pieces, details table L below) 5–7 voices, basso continuo Monteverdi, Venice 1614, repub. 1615, 1620, 1639 Text: Rinuccini, Giambattista Marino and others [7]
1615 Madrigal/song 292 Parnassus musicus Ferdinandeus...: Cantate Domino canticum novum 2S, 2T, basso continuo Bonornettti, Venice 1615
1616 Dramatic Tirsi e Clori (ballet) Monteverdi, Venice 1619 (in Seventh Book) Perf. January 1616 in Mantua [9][8]
1616–17 Dramatic Le nozze di Tetide (favola marittima) Text Scipione Agnelli. Project cancelled, music lost [9][10]
1617 Dramatic 333 Prologue to La Maddalena (sacre rappresentazione} Venice 1617 in Musiche per La Maddelena Text: Giovanni Battista Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 [9][10]
1618 Sacred 328 In Primo libra concerti ecclesiastici: "Sancta Maria succure miseria" 2S, basso continuo G.B. Ala, Milan 1618 Text: Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 [9]
1619 Madrigal/song 117–145 Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali (Seventh Book of Madrigals, 29 pieces, details table M below) 1–6 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble Venice 1619, repub. 1622, 1623, 1628, 1641 Text: Guarini, Marino, Chibrera, Tasso, Rinuccini and others [9]
1620 Dramatic Andromeda: favola in musica Text pub. Mantua 1620 Text: Ercole Marigliani. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Music lost [11][10]
1620 Dramatic Apollo (ballet) Text Striggio. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Text and music lost. [11][10]
1620 Sacred 293, 294, 298, 289 4 motets in Libro primo de motetti in lode d'Iddio nostro Signore. Details table N below 1–5 voices, basso continuo G.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620
1620 Sacred 204 "Laetaniae della Beata Vergine" 6 voices, basso continuo G.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620. Repub. 1626 and 1650
1621 Sacred Requiem for Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany Perf. Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo, 25 May 1621. Music lost. [11]
1621 Madrigal/song 305, 312 2 pieces in Symbolae diversorum musicum: "Fuge anima mea mundum" and "O beate viae". 2–5 voices, Bass continuo Lorenz Calvi, Venice 1621
1622 Dramatic Contributions to prologue and 4 intermedi and licenza in La contesa di Amore e Cupido Text pub. Mantua, 1620 Text: Marigliani. Perf. 18 January 1622, ducal palace Mantua [11][12]
1622 Sacred 313 1 piece in Promptuari musici concentus ecclesiasticos: "O bone Jesus, O pissime Jesu" 2S, basso continuo Donfried, Strasburg 1622
1623 Madrigal/song 22 1 piece in Il maggio fiorito arie, sonetti, madrigali: "Lasciatemi morire" (Lamento d'Arianna) 1–3 voices, basso continuo G.B. Rocchigiani, Orvieto 1623 5-section version of Lamento d'Arianna [11]
1623 Madrigal/song 22, 141, 142 3 monodic versions of Lamento d'Arianna Solo voice, basso continuo Monteverdi, Venice 1623
1623 Madrigal/song 249 1 piece in Madrigali e arie: "Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armsato" Solo voice, basso continuo G.B.Camarella, Venice 1623, repub. 1632
1624 Sacred 301, 335, 326 3 sacred songs in Seconda raccolta de' sacri canti a 1–4 voci: "Ego flos campi"; "Venite sitientes"; "Salve o regina" 1–4 voices, basso continuo Calvi, Venice 1624
1624 Dramatic 153 Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Pub. in Eighth Book, 1638 Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Gerusalemme conquistata [11][12]
1624 Madrigal/song 315, 334 2 pieces in Madrigali del signor cavaliero Anselmi...: "O come vaghi" and "Taci Armelin, deh taci" 2–5 voices, basso continuo Venice, 1624 Text: Giovanni Battista Anselmi [13]
1624 Madrigal/song 316, 310, 332 3 pieces in Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze...: "Ohimé ch'io cado, ohimé; La mia turca che d'amor; Si dolce è l tormento Solo voice, basso continuo C. Milanuzzi, Venice 1624
1625 Sacred 300 1 piece in Sacri affetti contesti da diversi eccelentissimi autori... : "Ego dormio et cor meum vigilat" 2–4 voices, basso continuo F. Sammaruco, Rome 1625
1625 Sacred 317, 297, 299, 327 4 pieces in Ghirlanda sacra scielta da diversi eccellentissimi...: "O quam pulchra es amica mea"; "Currite populi, psallite timpanis"; "Ecce sacrum paratum convivium"; "Salve regina" Solo voice, basso continuo L. Simonetti, Venice 1625
1626 Sacred 204 1 piece in Rosarium litanarium beatae V. Mariae: "Laetaniae della Beata Virgine 6 voices, basso continuo L. Calvi, Venice 1626, repub. 1650
1626 Dramatic Armida abbandonata (opera) Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Music lost. [13][14]
1627 Dramatic La finta pazza Licori (opera) Text: Strozzi. Music lost (if any written) [13][14]
1627 Sacred 295 1 piece in Psalmi de vespere a 4 voci: "Confitebor tibi Domine" 4 voices, basso continuo G.M. Sabino da Turi, Naples 1627
1628 Dramatic Gli Argonauti (mascherata) Text: Claudio Achillini. Music lost (if any written) [13][14]
1628 Madrigal/song "La garda impoverir di pesci egregi" (part of sonnet cycle) 2 voices, basso continuo Perf. 8 April 1628. Text: Strozzi, music lost. [13]
1628 Dramatic Prologue and 5 intermedi for Teti e Flora Text pub. Parma, 1629 Perf. 13 December 1628. Text: Ascanio Pio di Savoia. Music lost. [13][14]
1628 Dramatic Mercurio e Marte (tournament) Text pub. Parma, 1629 Perf. 21 December 1628. Text: Achillini. Music lost. [13][15]
1629 Sacred 303, 304, 285 3 pieces in Quarta raccolta de sacri canti: "Exulta filia Sion"; "Exultent coeli et gaudeant angeli"; "Salve O Regina" 1–5 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble L. Calvi, Venice, 1629
1630 Dramatic 323 Proserpina rapita (anatopismo) Text pub. Venice, 1630 Perf. 16 April 1630. Text: Strozzi. Music lost ex. canzonetta "Come dolce oggi l'auretta" [13][15]
1632 Madrigal/song 150, 246–51 Scherzi musicali cioè arie...: 7 pieces, details table O below 1–2 voices, basso continuo Monteverdi, Venice, 1632 Text: Rinuccini (SV251) and others.
1634 Madrigal/song 320, 321 Arie di diversi: 2 pieces: "Perché, se m'odiavi"; "Più lieto il guardo" Solo voice, basso continuo A. Vincenti, Venice, 1634
1636 Dramatic 154 "Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero" (ballet) Pub in Eighth Book, 1638 Text: Rinuccini [16][15]
1637 Dramatic A1 Ballo del Monte Verde in Vero e facil modo l'imparare e sonare... (ballet) P. Milioni and L. Monte, Rome and Macerata, 1637
1638 Madrigal/song 146–167 Madrigali guerriri, et amorosi...Libro ottavo (Eighth Book of Madrigals, 22 pieces, details table P below 1–8 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble Monteverdi, Venice 1638 Texts: Petrarch, Strozzi, Rinuccini, Marino, Guarini and others [16]
1640 Dramatic 325 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (opera) Unpublished; music and text in MS Perf. February 1640, Venice. Text: Giacomo Badoaro [16][17]
1640 Dramatic La nozze d'Enea e Lavinia (opera) Perf. Carnival, 1640–41, Venice. Text: Michelangelo Torcigliani. Music lost. [16][17]
1641 Dramatic Vittoria d'Amore (ballet) Perf. 7 February 1641, Venice. Text: Bernardo Morando. Music lost. [18][17]
1641 Sacred 252–288, 278a, 278b, 279a Selva morale e spirituale: 43 pieces, details table Q below 1–5 voices, choirs, basso continuo, violins, viole da braccio/tromb. Monteverdi, Venice 1641
1643 Dramatic 308 L'incoronazione di Poppea (opera) Text pub. 1656. Music survives in two MS version Perf. early February 1643, Venice. Text: Giovanni Francesco Busenello. [19][17]
1645 Sacred 336 1 item in Motetti a voci solae diversi esselentissimi autori...Libro primo.: "Venite videte martirem" Venice 1645 Published posthumously [19]
1650 Sacred 190–204 Messa et salmi:15 items, details table R below 1–8 voices Venice, 1650 Published posthumously [19]
1651 Madrigal/song 168, 251, 149–150, 158–159, 169–178 Madrigali e canzonette...Libro nono: (Ninth Book of Madrigals. 16 items, details table S below ) Venice 1651 Published posthumously [19]
1651 Sacred 197, 302 2 items in Raccolta di motetti di Gasparo Casati... : "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes"; "En gratulemur hodie" Venice 1651 Published posthumously [19]

Sundry undated items

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Source: Stattkus-Verzeichnis[20]

  • Ahi che si partì il mio bel sol adorno, SV 290
  • Confitebor tibi domine a 1, SV 296
  • Ecce sacrum paratum convivium, SV 299a
  • Gloria a 8, SV 307
  • Laudate pueri dominum a 6, SV 311
  • Prima vedrò ch'in questi prati nascano, SV 322
  • Salve Regina, SV 327
  • Taci Armelin, deh taci, SV 334
  • Venite videte martirem, SV 336
  • Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337

Details tables

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See also

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List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi

References

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Citations

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  1. ^ a b c d e Whenham, pp. 316–35
  2. ^ a b c Whenham, p. 317
  3. ^ a b c Whenham, pp. 318–19
  4. ^ a b c d e f Whenham, pp. 320–21
  5. ^ a b Carter, p. 298
  6. ^ a b Carter, p. 299
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Whenhma, pp. 322–23
  8. ^ a b c Carter, p. 300
  9. ^ a b c d e Whenham, pp. 324–25
  10. ^ a b c d Carter, p. 301
  11. ^ a b c d e f Whenham, pp. 326–27
  12. ^ a b Carter, p. 302
  13. ^ a b c d e f g h Whenham, pp. 328–29
  14. ^ a b c d Carter, p. 303
  15. ^ a b c Carter, p. 304
  16. ^ a b c d Whenham, pp. 330–31
  17. ^ a b c d Carter, p. 305
  18. ^ Whenham, pp. 332–33
  19. ^ a b c d e f Whenham, pp. 334–35
  20. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q "Claudio Monteverdi Verzeichnis der erhaltenen Werke" (PDF). Manfred H. Stattkus. 2006. Retrieved 21 July 2017.

Sources

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  • Carter, Tim (2002): Monteverdi's Magic Theatre. Yale University Press, New Haven and London. ISBN 978-0300-09676-7
  • Redlich, H.F. (1952): Claudio Monteverdi: Life and Works. Oxford University Press, London.
  • Stattkus, Manfred H. (1985–2006): Claudio Monteverdi: Verzeichnis der erhaltenen Werke. Stattkus-Musik, Bergkamen, Germany. Retrieved 18 July 2017. (in German)
  • Whenham, John (2007): "The works of Monteverdi: catalogue and index" in Whenham, John and Wistreich, Richard: The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. ISBN 978-0521-69798-9 (pages 314–38)