Artists

Claudio Monteverdi

Citation Formats

General Reference

Arts and Music Atlas. "Claudio Monteverdi." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/claudio-monteverdi.

APA Style

Arts and Music Atlas. (n.d.). Claudio Monteverdi. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/claudio-monteverdi

BibTeX

@misc{artsandmusicatlas-claudio-monteverdi,
  author = {Arts and Music Atlas},
  title = {Claudio Monteverdi},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://arts.interactiveatlas.org/artists/claudio-monteverdi},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

Claudio Monteverdi (1567 to 1643) was an Italian composer whose Orfeo, first performed in Mantua in 1607, far surpassed the pioneering Florentine operas of Jacopo Peri and Jacopo Corsi in musical complexity and dramatic interest, establishing opera as a form capable of sustained psychological depth rather than court entertainment alone.

Facts

Birth Year

1567 1

Death Year

1643 1

Nationality

Italian 1

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