List of compositions by Claudio Monteverdi
# List of compositions by Claudio Monteverdi

Claudio Monteverdi was active as a composer for almost six decades in the late 16th and early seventeenth centuries, essentially the period of period of transition from Renaissance to Baroque music. Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or other documentary evidence of the music's one-time existence.

In the "Voices/instrumentation" column of the chronological list, S= soprano, A= alto, T= tenor, Bar= baritone, B= Bass. The "SV" numbers are as per the Stattkus-Verzeichnis catalogue, first published in 1985 and revised in 2006.

## Chronological list of compositions

| Year | Genre | SV number | Title | Voices/instrumentation | Publication history | Other information |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1582 | Sacred | 207–229 | Sacrae cantiunculae, liber primus (23 pieces, details table A below) | 3 voices S, A and T | Monteverdi, Venice 1582 | |
| 1583 | Sacred | 179–189 | Madrigali spirituali (11 pieces, details table B below) | 4 voices | Monteverdi, Brescia 1583 | Only bass partbook survives. Text: Fulvio Rorario |
| 1584 | Madrigal/song | 1–21 | Canzonette, libro primo (21 pieces, details table C below) | 3 voices using Treble, S, A and T combinations | Monteverdi, Venice 1584 | |
| 1587 | Madrigal/song | 23–39 | Madrigali, libro primo (First Book of Madrigals, 17 pieces, details table D below) | 5 voices | Monteverdi, Venice 1587, repub. 1607, 1621 | Text: Battista Guarini, Giovanni Battista Strozzi, Giovanni Battista Bonardo and others |
| 1590 | Madrigal/song | 40–59 | Il secondo libro de madrigali (Second Book of Madrigals, 20 pieces, details table E below) | 5 voices | Monteverdi, Venice 1590, repub. 1607, 1621 | Texts: Torquato Tasso, Girolamo Casoni, Guarini and others |
| 1592 | Madrigal/song | 60–74 | Il terzo libro de madrigali (Third Book of Madrigals, 15 pieces, details table F below) | 5 voices | Venice 1592, repub. 1594, 1600, 1604, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1621 | Texts: Tasso, Guarini and others |
| 1594 | Madrigal/song | 309, 314, 324, 331 | Il primo libro delle canzonette a 3 voci (4 pieces, details table G below) | 3 voices using Treble, S, Bar, and B combinations | Morsolino, Venice 1594 | Texts: Scipio Cerreto and others |
| 1603 | Madrigal/song | 75–93 | Il quarto libro de madrigali (Fourth Book of Madrigals, 19 pieces, details table H below) | 5 voices | Monteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1605, 1607, 1611, 1615, 1622, 1644 | Texts: Tasso, Guarini, Ottavio Rinuccini and others |
| 1604–05 | Dramatic | | Endimione (ballet) | | | Music and text lost |
| 1605 | Madrigal/song | | In nuovo fioretti a 3 voci | 3 voices SSB, basso continuo | Franzoni, Venice 1605 | |
| 1605 | Madrigal/song | 94–106 | Il quinto libro de madrigali (Fifth Book of Madrigals, 13 pieces, details table I below) | Mainly 5 voices, basso continuo | Monteverdi, Venice 1603, repub. 1606, 1610, 1611, 1613, 1615, 1620, 1643. Jacobsen, Egtved 1985 | Texts: Guarini and others |
| 1607 | Dramatic | 318 | Orfeo (favola in musica) | | Monteverdi, Venice 1609, repub. 1615. Tarr, Paris 1974 | Text: Alessandro Striggio. First perf. Mantua 24 February 1607 |
| 1607 | Dramatic | 245 | "De la belleza le dovute lodi" (ballet) | | Venice 1609, repub. 1607 in Scherzi musicali | Text Striggio or Francesco Gonzaga |
| 1607 | Madrigal/song | 230–245 | Scherzi musicali (16 pieces, details table J below) | 3 voices, basso continuo, 2 violins | Monteverdi, Venice 1607 | Text: Gabriello Chiabrera, Ansaldo Cebà and others |
| 1608 | Dramatic | 291 | Arianna (tragedia in musica) | | Text pub. Florence, Mantua, Venice 1608. | Text: Rinuccini. First perf. 28 May 1608. Music lost exc. Lamento d'Arianna SV22, pub. 1614 and 1623 |
| 1608 | Dramatic | | Prologue to intermedio: "Ha cento lustri con etereo giri" | | | Text Chiabrera. First perf. 2 June 1608. Music lost. |
| 1608 | Dramatic | 167 | Mascherato dell'ingrate (ballet) | | Text pub. Mantua 1608 | Text: Riuccini. First perf. 4 June 1608. Rev. and pub. 1638 in Eighth Book |
| 1608 | Madrigal/song | 319, 329 | G. de Wert: Il duodecima libro de madrigali: "Pensier aspro e crudele"; "Sdegno la fiamma estinse" | | Venice 1608 | Text: Orsina Cavaletta. Bass partbook only survives |
| 1610 | Sacred | 205–206 | Sanctissimae Virgini missa senis vocibus... incl. Vespro della Beata Vergine (15 pieces, details table K below) | 10 voices, basso continuo, inst. ensemble | Venice 1610 | |
| 1611 | Sacred | | Dixit Dominus | 8 voices | | Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) |
| 1611 | Sacred | | 2 motets | 2–5 voices | | Lost work (ref. Monteverdi letter 26 March ) |
| 1614 | Madrigal/song | 107–116 | Il sesto libro de madrigali (Sixth Book of Madrigals, 10 pieces, details table L below) | 5–7 voices, basso continuo | Monteverdi, Venice 1614, repub. 1615, 1620, 1639 | Text: Rinuccini, Giambattista Marino and others |
| 1615 | Madrigal/song | 292 | Parnassus musicus Ferdinandeus...: Cantate Domino canticum novum | 2S, 2T, basso continuo | Bonornettti, Venice 1615 | |
| 1616 | Dramatic | | Tirsi e Clori (ballet) | | Monteverdi, Venice 1619 (in Seventh Book) | Perf. January 1616 in Mantua |
| 1616–17 | Dramatic | | Le nozze di Tetide (favola marittima) | | | Text Scipione Agnelli. Project cancelled, music lost |
| 1617 | Dramatic | 333 | Prologue to La Maddalena (sacre rappresentazione} | | Venice 1617 in Musiche per La Maddelena | Text: Giovanni Battista Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 |
| 1618 | Sacred | 328 | In Primo libra concerti ecclesiastici: "Sancta Maria succure miseria" | 2S, basso continuo | G.B. Ala, Milan 1618 | Text: Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 |
| 1619 | Madrigal/song | 117–145 | Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali (Seventh Book of Madrigals, 29 pieces, details table M below) | 1–6 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble | Venice 1619, repub. 1622, 1623, 1628, 1641 | Text: Guarini, Marino, Chibrera, Tasso, Rinuccini and others |
| 1620 | Dramatic | | Andromeda: favola in musica | | Text pub. Mantua 1620 | Text: Ercole Marigliani. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Music lost |
| 1620 | Dramatic | | Apollo (ballet) | | | Text Striggio. First perf. Mantua, betw. 1 and 3 March 1620. Text and music lost. |
| 1620 | Sacred | 293, 294, 298, 289 | 4 motets in Libro primo de motetti in lode d'Iddio nostro Signore. Details table N below | 1–5 voices, basso continuo | G.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620 | |
| 1620 | Sacred | 204 | "Laetaniae della Beata Vergine" | 6 voices, basso continuo | G.C. Bianchi, Venice 1620. Repub. 1626 and 1650 | |
| 1621 | Sacred | | Requiem for Grand Duke Cosimo II of Tuscany | | | Perf. Venice, SS Giovanni e Paolo, 25 May 1621. Music lost. |
| 1621 | Madrigal/song | 305, 312 | 2 pieces in Symbolae diversorum musicum: "Fuge anima mea mundum" and "O beate viae". | 2–5 voices, Bass continuo | Lorenz Calvi, Venice 1621 | |
| 1622 | Dramatic | | Contributions to prologue and 4 intermedi and licenza in La contesa di Amore e Cupido | | Text pub. Mantua, 1620 | Text: Marigliani. Perf. 18 January 1622, ducal palace Mantua |
| 1622 | Sacred | 313 | 1 piece in Promptuari musici concentus ecclesiasticos: "O bone Jesus, O pissime Jesu" | 2S, basso continuo | Donfried, Strasburg 1622 | |
| 1623 | Madrigal/song | 22 | 1 piece in Il maggio fiorito arie, sonetti, madrigali: "Lasciatemi morire" (Lamento d'Arianna) | 1–3 voices, basso continuo | G.B. Rocchigiani, Orvieto 1623 | 5-section version of Lamento d'Arianna |
| 1623 | Madrigal/song | 22, 141, 142 | 3 monodic versions of Lamento d'Arianna | Solo voice, basso continuo | Monteverdi, Venice 1623 | |
| 1623 | Madrigal/song | 249 | 1 piece in Madrigali e arie: "Ecco di dolci raggi il sol armsato" | Solo voice, basso continuo | G.B.Camarella, Venice 1623, repub. 1632 | |
| 1624 | Sacred | 301, 335, 326 | 3 sacred songs in Seconda raccolta de' sacri canti a 1–4 voci: "Ego flos campi"; "Venite sitientes"; "Salve o regina" | 1–4 voices, basso continuo | Calvi, Venice 1624 | |
| 1624 | Dramatic | 153 | Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda | | Pub. in Eighth Book, 1638 | Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata and Gerusalemme conquistata |
| 1624 | Madrigal/song | 315, 334 | 2 pieces in Madrigali del signor cavaliero Anselmi...: "O come vaghi" and "Taci Armelin, deh taci" | 2–5 voices, basso continuo | Venice, 1624 | Text: Giovanni Battista Anselmi |
| 1624 | Madrigal/song | 316, 310, 332 | 3 pieces in Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze...: "Ohimé ch'io cado, ohimé; La mia turca che d'amor; Si dolce è l tormento | Solo voice, basso continuo | C. Milanuzzi, Venice 1624 | |
| 1625 | Sacred | 300 | 1 piece in Sacri affetti contesti da diversi eccelentissimi autori... : "Ego dormio et cor meum vigilat" | 2–4 voices, basso continuo | F. Sammaruco, Rome 1625 | |
| 1625 | Sacred | 317, 297, 299, 327 | 4 pieces in Ghirlanda sacra scielta da diversi eccellentissimi...: "O quam pulchra es amica mea"; "Currite populi, psallite timpanis"; "Ecce sacrum paratum convivium"; "Salve regina" | Solo voice, basso continuo | L. Simonetti, Venice 1625 | |
| 1626 | Sacred | 204 | 1 piece in Rosarium litanarium beatae V. Mariae: "Laetaniae della Beata Virgine | 6 voices, basso continuo | L. Calvi, Venice 1626, repub. 1650 | |
| 1626 | Dramatic | | Armida abbandonata (opera) | | | Text from Tasso's Gerusalemme liberata. Music lost. |
| 1627 | Dramatic | | La finta pazza Licori (opera) | | | Text: Strozzi. Music lost (if any written) |
| 1627 | Sacred | 295 | 1 piece in Psalmi de vespere a 4 voci: "Confitebor tibi Domine" | 4 voices, basso continuo | G.M. Sabino da Turi, Naples 1627 | |
| 1628 | Dramatic | | Gli Argonauti (mascherata) | | | Text: Claudio Achillini. Music lost (if any written) |
| 1628 | Madrigal/song | | "La garda impoverir di pesci egregi" (part of sonnet cycle) | 2 voices, basso continuo | | Perf. 8 April 1628. Text: Strozzi, music lost. |
| 1628 | Dramatic | | Prologue and 5 intermedi for Teti e Flora | | Text pub. Parma, 1629 | Perf. 13 December 1628. Text: Ascanio Pio di Savoia. Music lost. |
| 1628 | Dramatic | | Mercurio e Marte (tournament) | | Text pub. Parma, 1629 | Perf. 21 December 1628. Text: Achillini. Music lost. |
| 1629 | Sacred | 303, 304, 285 | 3 pieces in Quarta raccolta de sacri canti: "Exulta filia Sion"; "Exultent coeli et gaudeant angeli"; "Salve O Regina" | 1–5 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble | L. Calvi, Venice, 1629 | |
| 1630 | Dramatic | 323 | Proserpina rapita (anatopismo) | | Text pub. Venice, 1630 | Perf. 16 April 1630. Text: Strozzi. Music lost ex. canzonetta "Come dolce oggi l'auretta" |
| 1632 | Madrigal/song | 150, 246–51 | Scherzi musicali cioè arie...: 7 pieces, details table O below | 1–2 voices, basso continuo | Monteverdi, Venice, 1632 | Text: Rinuccini (SV251) and others. |
| 1634 | Madrigal/song | 320, 321 | Arie di diversi: 2 pieces: "Perché, se m'odiavi"; "Più lieto il guardo" | Solo voice, basso continuo | A. Vincenti, Venice, 1634 | |
| 1636 | Dramatic | 154 | "Volgendo il ciel per l'immortal sentiero" (ballet) | | Pub in Eighth Book, 1638 | Text: Rinuccini |
| 1637 | Dramatic | A1 | Ballo del Monte Verde in Vero e facil modo l'imparare e sonare... (ballet) | | P. Milioni and L. Monte, Rome and Macerata, 1637 | |
| 1638 | Madrigal/song | 146–167 | Madrigali guerriri, et amorosi...Libro ottavo (Eighth Book of Madrigals, 22 pieces, details table P below | 1–8 voices, basso continuo, instr. ensemble | Monteverdi, Venice 1638 | Texts: Petrarch, Strozzi, Rinuccini, Marino, Guarini and others |
| 1640 | Dramatic | 325 | Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (opera) | | Unpublished; music and text in MS | Perf. February 1640, Venice. Text: Giacomo Badoaro |
| 1640 | Dramatic | | La nozze d'Enea e Lavinia (opera) | | | Perf. Carnival, 1640–41, Venice. Text: Michelangelo Torcigliani. Music lost. |
| 1641 | Dramatic | | Vittoria d'Amore (ballet) | | | Perf. 7 February 1641, Venice. Text: Bernardo Morando. Music lost. |
| 1641 | Sacred | 252–288, 278a, 278b, 279a | Selva morale e spirituale: 43 pieces, details table Q below | 1–5 voices, choirs, basso continuo, violins, viole da braccio/tromb. | Monteverdi, Venice 1641 | |
| 1643 | Dramatic | 308 | L'incoronazione di Poppea (opera) | Text pub. 1656. Music survives in two MS version | | Perf. early February 1643, Venice. Text: Giovanni Francesco Busenello. |
| 1645 | Sacred | 336 | 1 item in Motetti a voci solae diversi esselentissimi autori...Libro primo.: "Venite videte martirem" | | Venice 1645 | Published posthumously |
| 1650 | Sacred | 190–204 | Messa et salmi:15 items, details table R below | 1–8 voices | Venice, 1650 | Published posthumously |
| 1651 | Madrigal/song | 168, 251, 149–150, 158–159, 169–178 | Madrigali e canzonette...Libro nono: (Ninth Book of Madrigals. 16 items, details table S below ) | | Venice 1651 | Published posthumously |
| 1651 | Sacred | 197, 302 | 2 items in Raccolta di motetti di Gasparo Casati... : "Laudate Dominum omnes gentes"; "En gratulemur hodie" | | Venice 1651 | Published posthumously |

## Sundry undated items

Source: Stattkus-Verzeichnis

* Ahi che si partì il mio bel sol adorno, SV 290
* Confitebor tibi domine a 1, SV 296
* Ecce sacrum paratum convivium, SV 299a
* Gloria a 8, SV 307
* Laudate pueri dominum a 6, SV 311
* Prima vedrò ch'in questi prati nascano, SV 322
* Salve Regina, SV 327
* Taci Armelin, deh taci, SV 334
* Venite videte martirem, SV 336
* Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337
