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Monteverdi
[ mon-tuh-vair-dee; Italian mawn-te-ver-dee ]
noun
- Clau·dio [klou, -dyaw], 1567–1643, Italian composer.
Monteverdi
/ ˌmɒntɪˈvɛədɪ /
noun
- MonteverdiClaudio?15671643MItalianMUSIC: composer Claudio (ˈklaʊdɪˌəʊ). ?1567–1643, Italian composer, noted esp for his innovations in opera and for his expressive use of dissonance. His operas include Orfeo (1607) and L'Incoronazione di Poppea (1642) and he also wrote many motets and madrigals
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Composers from Monteverdi to Gluck, to Stravinsky, to Philip Glass, have told it in music.
From The Daily Beast
Monteverdi's scores contained, besides recitative, suggestions of melody.
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