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Composer
Claudio Monteverdi
| -1643During his youth in Cremona, Monteverdi received his first musical training from Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, the maestro di cappella at the Cathedral. After making his name with his first publications, including his First Book of Madrigals, he moved to the Gonzaga court in Mantua in 1590: he remained in the service of the family for twenty-two years, first as singer and violist, and later as maestro di cappella. There he composed further books of madrigals and, with L'Orfeo in 1607, one of the earliest operas in the history of music. The Vespers of the Blessed Virgin were also written in Mantua in 1610. In 1613 became Monteverdi maestro di cappella at St Mark's in Venice. He spent thirty musically fruitful years in this post. He composed sacred works, but remained interested in secular music and published his most extensive secular collections with books six to eight of his Madrigals. After the opening of the Venice opera house in 1637, the first public opera house ever , he returned to composing opera once more: both of his late operas, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in Patria and L'incoronazione di Poppea received their first performances here. Personal details
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Editor
Fritz Näf
| 1943Fritz Näf studied solo singing at the Musikhochschule in Zurich and Freiburg/Breisgau and attended master courses given by Jenny Tourel and Ernst Haefliger. As a tenor he appeared in concerts in many parts of Europe, while continuing his studies as a choral and orchestral conductor. Between 1976 and 1986 he taught solo and ensemble singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he founded the Basle Madrigalists in 1978. Between 1986 and 2000 first he was director of the Winterthur Music School and Conservatory, and subsequently rector of the newly established Hochschule for Music and Theater in Zurich. Since December 2000 Fritz Näf has been full-time artistic director of the Swiss Chamber Choir (founded in 1997) and the Basle Madrigalists. He also continues to appear as a guest conductor with various choirs and orchestras. Personal details
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Songwriter / Librettist
Aquilini Coppini
| -1629
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Songwriter / Librettist
Giovanni Battista Guarini
| 1538-1612
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Continuo realization
Daniel Ivo de Oliveira
| 1979
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