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Composer of the Week Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) Episodes

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  1. Songs of Love and War

    5/5 Donald Macleod on Monteveri's final collection of madrigals and last two surviving operas.

  2. In Time of Plague

    4/5 Focusing on Monteverdi's acquiring a pet monkey as well as a plague outbreak in Venice.

  3. Holy Orders

    3/5 How Monteverdi, frustrated by his employers' ingratitude, turned to the Church for work.

  4. First Steps in Opera

    2/5 Donald Macleod on how Monteverdi devised one of the world's first operas, L'Orfeo.

  5. The Man from Cremona

    1/5 With Monteverdi's rapid rise from Cremona choirboy to string player and composer at Mantua