Christies adoremus te claudio monteverdi biography
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Choral Music Notes - Claudio Monteverdi Motets: Adoramus te, Christe and Cantate Domino (1620)
Dr. Jimbob's Monteverdi page, with a short biographyContents of this page:
back to the topThe First Book of Motets of Giulio Cesare Bianchi (1620)
Giulio Cesare Bianchi (1590 - 1661) was a colleague of Monteverdi's from Mantua.Christies adoremus te claudio monteverdi biography
In 1620, Bianchi published his Libro primo de Motetti (First Book of Motets), and invited his friend Monteverdi to contribute to the volume. Monteverdi sent Bianchi four motets to include in his volume: a setting for six-part chorus on the text Domine, ne in furore tuo arguas me, a five-part setting of Christe, Adoramus te, and six-part motets on adaptations of the texts Adoramus te, Christe and Cantate Domino.
These motets give us a sense of the church music Monteverdi was writing in his first years at St. Mark's in Venice.
The young Monteverdi established his reputation in Cremona and Mantua by publishing volumes of secular madrigals.
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