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 Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or other documentary evidence of the music's one-time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.

Contents

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

Year [1] GenreSV number [1] Title [1] Voices/instrumentation [1] Publication history [1] Other informationRefs
1582Sacred207–229Sacrae cantiunculae, liber primus (23 pieces, details table A below)3 voices S, A and TMonteverdi, Venice 1582
1583Sacred179–189Madrigali spirituali (11 pieces, details table B below)4 voicesMonteverdi, Brescia 1583Only bass partbook survives. Text: Fulvio Rorario [2]
1584Madrigal/song1–21Canzonette, libro primo (21 pieces, details table C below)3 voices using Treble, S, A and T combinationsMonteverdi, Venice 1584
1587Madrigal/song23–39Madrigali, libro primo (First Book of Madrigals, 17 pieces, details table D below)5 voicesMonteverdi, Venice 1587, repub. 1607, 1621Text: Battista Guarini, Giovanni Battista Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Bonardo and others [2]
1590Madrigal/song40–59Il secondo libro de madrigali (Second Book of Madrigals, 20 pieces, details table E below)5 voicesMonteverdi, Venice 1590, repub. 1607, 1621Texts: Torquato Tasso, Girolamo Casoni, Guarini and others [3]
1592Madrigal/song60–74Il terzo libro de madrigali (Third Book of Madrigals, 15 pieces, details table F below)5 voicesVenice 1592, repub. 1594, 1600, 1604, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1621Texts: Tasso, Guarini and others [3]
1594Madrigal/song309, 314, 324, 331Il primo libro delle canzonette a 3 voci (4 pieces, details table G below)3 voices using Treble, S, Bar, and B combinationsMorsolino, Venice 1594Texts: Scipio Cerreto and others [3]
1603Madrigal/song75–93Il quarto libro de madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals, 19 pieces, details table H below)5 voicesMonteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1605, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1622, 1644Texts: Tasso, Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and others [4]
1604–05DramaticEndimione (ballet)Music and text lost [4] [5]
1605Madrigal/songIn nuovo fioretti a 3 voci3 voices SSB, basso continuoFranzoni, Venice 1605
1605Madrigal/song94–106Il quinto libro de madrigali (Fifth Book of Madrigals, 13 pieces, details table I below)Mainly 5 voices, basso continuoMonteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1606, 1610, 1611, 1613, 1615, 1620, 1643. Jacobsen, Egtved 1985Texts: Guarini and others [4]
1607Dramatic318 Orfeo (favola in musica) Monteverdi, Venice 1609, repub. 1615. Tarr, Paris 1974Text: Alessandro Striggio. First perf. Mantua 24 February 1607 [4] [5]
1607Dramatic245"De la belleza le dovute lodi" (ballet)Venice 1609, repub. 1607 in Scherzi musicaliText Striggio or Francesco Gonzaga [4] [6]
1607Madrigal/song230–245Scherzi musicali (16 pieces, details table J below)3 voices, basso continuo, 2 violinsMonteverdi, Venice 1607Text: Gabriello Chiabrera, Ansaldo Cebà and others [4]
1608Dramatic291 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]
1608DramaticPrologue to intermedio: "Ha cento lustri con etereo giri"Text Chiabrera. First perf. 2 June 1608. Music lost. [7] [8]
1608Dramatic167Mascherata dell'ingrate (ballet)Text pub. Mantua 1608Text: Rinuccini. First perf. 4 June 1608. Rev. and pub. 1638 in Eighth Book [7] [8]
1608Madrigal/song319, 329G. de Wert: Il duodecimo libro de madrigali: "Pensier aspro e crudele"; "Sdegno la fiamma estinse"Venice 1608Text: Orsina Cavaletta. Bass partbook only survives [7]
1610SacredMissa da capella a sei voci, fatta sopra il mottetto in illo tempore del Gomberti6 voices SSATTB, organVenice 1610
1610Sacred205–206Sanctissimae Virgini missa senis vocibus... incl. Vespro della Beata Vergine (15 pieces, details table K below)10 voices, basso continuo, inst. ensembleVenice 1610
1611SacredDixit Dominus8 voicesLost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7]
1611Sacred2 motets2–5 voicesLost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) [7]
1614Madrigal/song107–116Il sesto libro de madrigali (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 10 pieces, details table L below)5–7 voices, basso continuoMonteverdi, Venice 1614, repub. 1615, 1620, 1639Text: Rinuccini, Giambattista Marino and others [7]
1615Madrigal/song292Parnassus musicus Ferdinandeus...: Cantate Domino canticum novum2S, 2T, basso continuoBonornettti, Venice 1615
1616DramaticTirsi e Clori (ballet)Monteverdi, Venice 1619 (in Seventh Book)Perf. January 1616 in Mantua [9] [8]
1616–17Dramatic Le nozze di Tetide (favola marittima) Text Scipione Agnelli. Project cancelled, music lost [9] [10]
1617Dramatic333Prologue to La Maddalena (sacre rappresentazione}Venice 1617 in Musiche per La MaddelenaText: Giovanni Battista Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 [9] [10]
1618Sacred328In Primo libra concerti ecclesiastici: "Sancta Maria succure miseria"2S, basso continuoG.B. Ala, Milan 1618Text: Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 [9]
1619Madrigal/song117–145Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali (Seventh Book of Madrigals, 29 pieces, details table M below)1–6 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensembleVenice 1619, repub. 1622, 1623, 1628, 1641Text: Guarini, Marino, Chibrera, Tasso, Rinuccini and others [9]
1620Dramatic Andromeda: favola in musica Text pub. Mantua 1620Text: Ercole Marigliani. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Music lost [11] [10]
1620DramaticApollo (ballet)Text Striggio. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Text and music lost. [11] [10]
1620Sacred293, 294, 298, 2894 motets in Libro primo de motetti in lode d'Iddio nostro Signore. Details table N below1–5 voices, basso continuoG.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620
1620Sacred204"Laetaniae della Beata Vergine"6 voices, basso continuoG.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620. Repub. 1626 and 1650
1621SacredRequiem for Grand Duke Cosimo II of TuscanyPerf. Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo, 25 May 1621. Music lost. [11]
1621Madrigal/song305, 3122 pieces in Symbolae diversorum musicum: "Fuge anima mea mundum" and "O beate viae".2–5 voices, Bass continuoLorenz Calvi, Venice 1621
1622DramaticContributions to prologue and 4 intermedi and licenza in La contesa di Amore e CupidoText pub. Mantua, 1620Text: Marigliani. Perf. 18 January 1622, ducal palace Mantua [11] [12]
1622Sacred3131 piece in Promptuari musici concentus ecclesiasticos: "O bone Jesus, O pissime Jesu"2S, basso continuoDonfried, Strasburg 1622
1623Madrigal/song221 piece in Il maggio fiorito arie, sonetti, madrigali: "Lasciatemi morire" (Lamento d'Arianna)1–3 voices, basso continuoG.B. Rocchigiani, Orvieto 16235-section version of Lamento d'Arianna [11]
1623Madrigal/song22, 141, 1423 monodic versions of Lamento d'AriannaSolo voice, basso continuoMonteverdi, Venice 1623
1623Madrigal/song2491 piece in Madrigali e arie: "Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armsato"Solo voice, basso continuoG.B.Camarella, Venice 1623, repub. 1632
1624Sacred301, 335, 3263 sacred songs in Seconda raccolta de' sacri canti a 1–4 voci: "Ego flos campi"; "Venite sitientes"; "Salve o regina"1–4 voices, basso continuoCalvi, Venice 1624
1624Dramatic153 Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda Pub. in Eighth Book, 1638Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Gerusalemme conquistata [11] [12]
1624Madrigal/song315, 3342 pieces in Madrigali del signor cavaliero Anselmi...: "O come vaghi" and "Taci Armelin, deh taci"2–5 voices, basso continuoVenice, 1624Text: Giovanni Battista Anselmi [13]
1624Madrigal/song316, 310, 3323 pieces in Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze...: "Ohimé ch'io cado, ohimé; La mia turca che d'amor; Si dolce è l tormentoSolo voice, basso continuoC. Milanuzzi, Venice 1624
1625Sacred3001 piece in Sacri affetti contesti da diversi eccelentissimi autori... : "Ego dormio et cor meum vigilat"2–4 voices, basso continuoF. Sammaruco, Rome 1625
1625Sacred317, 297, 299, 3274 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 continuoL. Simonetti, Venice 1625
1626Sacred2041 piece in Rosarium litanarium beatae V. Mariae: "Laetaniae della Beata Virgine6 voices, basso continuoL. Calvi, Venice 1626, repub. 1650
1626Dramatic Armida abbandonata (opera)Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Music lost. [13] [14]
1627Dramatic La finta pazza Licori (opera)Text: Strozzi. Music lost (if any written) [13] [14]
1627Sacred2951 piece in Psalmi de vespere a 4 voci: "Confitebor tibi Domine"4 voices, basso continuoG.M. Sabino da Turi, Naples 1627
1628DramaticGli Argonauti (mascherata)Text: Claudio Achillini. Music lost (if any written) [13] [14]
1628Madrigal/song"La garda impoverir di pesci egregi" (part of sonnet cycle)2 voices, basso continuoPerf. 8 April 1628. Text: Strozzi, music lost. [13]
1628DramaticPrologue and 5 intermedi for Teti e FloraText pub. Parma, 1629Perf. 13 December 1628. Text: Ascanio Pio di Savoia. Music lost. [13] [14]
1628DramaticMercurio e Marte (tournament)Text pub. Parma, 1629Perf. 21 December 1628. Text: Achillini. Music lost. [13] [15]
1629Sacred303, 304, 2853 pieces in Quarta raccolta de sacri canti: "Exulta filia Sion"; "Exultent coeli et gaudeant angeli"; "Salve O Regina"1–5 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensembleL. Calvi, Venice, 1629
1630Dramatic323 Proserpina rapita (anatopismo) Text pub. Venice, 1630Perf. 16 April 1630. Text: Strozzi. Music lost ex. canzonetta "Come dolce oggi l'auretta" [13] [15]
1632Madrigal/song150, 246–51Scherzi musicali cioè arie...: 7 pieces, details table O below1–2 voices, basso continuoMonteverdi, Venice, 1632Text: Rinuccini (SV251) and others.
1634Madrigal/song320, 321Arie di diversi: 2 pieces: "Perché, se m'odiavi"; "Più lieto il guardo"Solo voice, basso continuoA. Vincenti, Venice, 1634
1636Dramatic154"Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero" (ballet)Pub in Eighth Book, 1638Text: Rinuccini [16] [15]
1637DramaticA1Ballo del Monte Verde in Vero e facil modo l'imparare e sonare... (ballet)P. Milioni and L. Monte, Rome and Macerata, 1637
1638Madrigal/song146–167Madrigali guerriri, et amorosi...Libro ottavo (Eighth Book of Madrigals, 22 pieces, details table P below1–8 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensembleMonteverdi, Venice 1638Texts: Petrarch, Strozzi, Rinuccini, Marino, Guarini and others [16]
1640Dramatic325 Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (opera)Unpublished; music and text in MSPerf. February 1640, Venice. Text: Giacomo Badoaro [16] [17]
1640Dramatic La nozze d'Enea e Lavinia (opera)Perf. Carnival, 1640–41, Venice. Text: Michelangelo Torcigliani. Music lost. [16] [17]
1641DramaticVittoria d'Amore (ballet)Perf. 7 February 1641, Venice. Text: Bernardo Morando. Music lost. [18] [17]
1641Sacred252–288, 278a, 278b, 279a Selva morale e spirituale : 43 pieces, details table Q below1–5 voices, choirs, basso continuo, violins, viole da braccio/tromb.Monteverdi, Venice 1641
1643Dramatic308 L'incoronazione di Poppea (opera)Text pub. 1656. Music survives in two MS versionPerf. early February 1643, Venice. Text: Giovanni Francesco Busenello. [19] [17]
1645Sacred3361 item in Motetti a voci solae diversi esselentissimi autori...Libro primo.: "Venite videte martirem"Venice 1645Published posthumously [19]
1650Sacred190–204Messa et salmi:15 items, details table R below1–8 voicesVenice, 1650Published posthumously [19]
1651Madrigal/song168, 251, 149–150, 158–159, 169–178Madrigali e canzonette...Libro nono: (Ninth Book of Madrigals. 16 items, details table S below )Venice 1651Published posthumously [19]
1651Sacred197, 3022 items in Raccolta di motetti di Gasparo Casati... : "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes"; "En gratulemur hodie"Venice 1651Published posthumously [19]

Sundry undated items

Source: Stattkus-Verzeichnis [20]

Details tables

See also

List of operas by Claudio Monteverdi

References

Citations

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

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