The personality by Claudio Monteverdi?
A composer, un violinist and a great musician of modern opera.
Among the sacred compositions, the madrigals, the opera is the strong point for the expressivity in dramatic circle in energetic, animated style, but without leaves moderate art and the great sensibility.
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi is birth to Cremona of 15 th May1567 and is death to Venice of 29thNovember 1643 , he is been an Italian composer and violinist.
MONTEVERDI AND THE MUSICAL ACTIVITY.
Coming considering the first represented important and founders by modern opera finding always a equilibrium into music obtaining for his time the grade popularity among the musicians. With his talent and the notoriety yet known in Italy , Monteverdi keeps the concerts of big level in all world for demonstrating the clarity by madrigals, the moderate rhythm and all equilibrium into the sacred music where he transpose the great sensibility.
One thing is certain; the music, his admirers and critics that him defined the initiator of modern opera by great success.
A full grace in style! A talent uncontestable! Admired from world by music! He make part of a generation of the more greatest personages: Cervantes, Shakespeare, the contemporary of his time, at that he contributing with the modern opera.
THE TALENT AND THE AFFIRMATION.
Having a early talent to 15 old year he publish the volume of religious songs on three voice “ Sacrae Cantiunculae” implicating him after time in lyric theatre ,the songs madrigals having a certain equilibrium of creation. The innovations and the musical modernity by Monteverdi is in passage of renaissance music to baroque music accentuating the innovations by accompaniment with the evolution of language together to “ principe dei musici” Carlo Gesualdo.
From Madrigals, sacred music he renew his style with the opera!
Passing in opera he writes and enveloped the theatrics works to melodrama. From Orfeo melodrama the style had a profound influence not only in allemande compositions .
THE STYLE BY MONTEVERDI.
He becomes a researcher artist, his style him gives a liberty implicated the personal means. The travels in Europe of Nord to Anvers and Brussels where he knows the French music admiring the melody’s beautiful for the purity and the style in sensibility of poetic compositions.
At court by duck Vincenzo Gonzaga he composes the madrigals at that been looked with the affect and appreciate, the duck have been famous for his passion by madrigals in pomp of feasts.
Monteverdi takes the fames , success with the dramatic opera where he search the innovation and the expressivity in dramatic myth and the style , an energetic, animate style. In same mode he enters for organization the music in dramatic circle. His music comes large, diffused in Europe of Nord crossing the copy, manuscripts and contra fact music . The influence from music envelopes the vocal, sacred and profane music experimenting the new instrumental languages inspirited him to theatric writing of second part. He himself said:” If can affirms when that art( music) remain without the perfection until in present becomes don’t having only two genres : that sweet and that moderated…I understand that the first principal emotions of your soul are three: Sadness, Moderation, Humility or Pray, the three gradations that to can they translate with the fidelity in musical art into animate , sweet o moderate way(…)”. He is death to Venice after a short illness and comes buried in Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari.
THE COMPOSITIONS.
Sacrae cantiunculae ,Madrigali spirituali ,Vespro della beata vergine da concerto composta sopra canti fermi, Selva morale e spirituale ,Messa ,Canzonette ,6 Madrigali ,Concerto nr.7 Madrigali ,Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi ,Madrigali e canzonette ,2 Scherzi musicali .Lamento d’Arianna…
OPERA
L’Arianna ,Il ballo delle ingrate, Ballet Tirsi e Clori ,Prologo la Maddalena, L’Orfeo, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Il ritorno di Ulisse, Proserpina rapita, Andromeda, Lamento d’Apollo, Armida, Alessandro Striggio…
When you listen Monteverdi you remain lost in his time into his musical soul, in landscape of renaissance to baroque achieved with the madrigals; accepting the pomp and the monumentality into his music , but always bringing an extremely rare sensibility of that time. Him in fact , want gives an equilibrium , he wants to listen the music in his word “ sweet , moderated”, searching sometimes the sadness , the moderation, the humility in front the opera. Don’t want forcing nobody to make understand the his style ; a style always educated with the innovation in the melodic aria , accentuating the expression of personages to interpretations for renew the opera in a modern opera of his time. With talent, he becomes winner , the appreciated musician, listened in all Europe.
The madrigals , the sacred music and the modern opera him make known away of time , entering today in present, tomorrow in future.
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