Monteverdi, Claudio
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Image source
Wikimedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bernardo_Strozzi_-_Claudio_Monteverdi_(c.1630).jpg
Basic data
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Monteverdi, Claudio Zuan Antonio
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May 15, 1567 in Cremona -
†November 29, 1643 in Venedig
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Komponist, Violist, Sänger, Priester
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Mantua, Venedig
Iconography
.jpg "Monteverdi by Bernardo Strozzi (c. 1630) (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga in his coronation robes (1587, by Jeannin Bahuet [it]) (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vincenzo_I_Gonzaga_nel_giorno_dell%E2%80%99incoronazione.jpg "Duke Vincenzo I Gonzaga in his coronation robes (1587, by Jeannin Bahuet [it]) (Source: Wikimedia)")
![The only certain portrait of Claudio Monteverdi, from the title page of Fiori poetici, a 1644 book of commemorative poems for his funeral[19] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Claudio_Monteverdi,_engraved_portrait_from_%27Fiori_poetici%27_1644_-_Beinecke_Rare_Book_Library_(adjusted).jpg "The only certain portrait of Claudio Monteverdi, from the title page of Fiori poetici, a 1644 book of commemorative poems for his funeral[19] (Source: Wikimedia)")
![Letter from Monteverdi to Enzo Bentivoglio in Ferrara, 18 September 1627, (British Library, MS Mus. 1707), discussing the composer's intermezzo, Didone ed Enea[40] (Source: Wikimedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Monteverdiletter.jpg "Letter from Monteverdi to Enzo Bentivoglio in Ferrara, 18 September 1627, (British Library, MS Mus. 1707), discussing the composer's intermezzo, Didone ed Enea[40] (Source: Wikimedia)")
_Cappella_dei_milanesi-_tomb_of_Claudio_Monteverdi.jpg "Monteverdi's tomb in the church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari (Source: Wikimedia)")
.jpg "From the 1979 production of L'incoronazione di Poppea in Spoleto (Source: Wikimedia)")
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Biographical information from the WeGA
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