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- Title
Monteverdi at the crossroads.
- Authors
Gardiner, John Eliot
- Abstract
Monteverdi at the crossroads Fifty years ago, at the time of Monteverdi's quatercentenary in 1967, very little of his music had penetrated the consciousness of European and North American audiences. This began to change dramatically as the 20th century progressed; increasing numbers of performances, recordings and musicological studies in subsequent decades have changed Monteverdi's place in the present-day musical landscape. Musicians today are more than ever at ease with Monteverdi's music, approaching more confidently the composer's often fragmentary scores with a revised understanding of 'historically informed performance'. At the occasion of the composer's 450th anniversary, I take brief stock of current trends in the performance of Monteverdi, and identify the principal challenges faced both by scholars and by performers of the composer's music.
- Subjects
ITALY; MONTEVERDI, Claudio, 1567-1643; COMPOSERS; ITALIAN music; OPERA; BEL canto; HISTORY; SIXTEENTH century; MUSIC history
- Publication
Early Music, 2017, Vol 45, Issue 3, p347
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/cax042