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 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 Much of Monteverdi's music was unpublished and is forever lost; the lists below include lost compositions only when there is performance history or other documentary evidence of the music's one-time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

|| ||Venice 1617 in Musiche per La Maddelena'' ||Text: Giovanni Battista Andreini. First perf. Mantua, March 1617 rev. Vienna 1629 ||

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

Details tables

  • A: Sacrae cantiunculae 1582
  • B: Madrigali spirituali 1583
  • C: Canzonette, libro primo 1584
  • D: Madrigali, libro primo 1587
  • E: Il secondo libro de madrigali 1590
  • F: Il terzo libro de madrigali 1592
  • G: Il primo libro delle canzonette a 3 voci 1594
  • H: Il quarto libro de madrigali 1603
  • I: Il quinto libro de madrigali 1605
  • J: Scherzi musicali 1607
  • K: Sanctissimae Virgini missa senis vocibus... incl. Vespers of 1610
  • L: Il sesto libro de madrigali 1614
  • M: Concerto: settimo libro de madrigali 1619
  • N: 4 motets in Libro primo de motetti in lode d'Iddio nostro Signore... 1620
  • O: Scherzi musicali cioè arie... 1632
  • P: Madrigali guerriri, et amorosi...Libro ottavo 1638
  • Q: Selva morale e spirituale 1641
  • R: Messa et salmi 1650
  • 'S: Madrigali e canzonette...Libro nono: '' 1651'''