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Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman: Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

Read "Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The hinges of musical history have typically afforded one or two artists most associated with them. At the horizon of the Renaissance looking over into the Baroque period was Italian composer Claudio Monteverdi (1567--1643). He is often credited with developing polyphonic performance at the end of the Renaissance period and the basso continuo technique (establishment of a harmonic underpinning) in the Baroque period. New York Times classical music critic Harold Schonberg called Monteverdi, the “Pioneer of Opera," as his L'Orfeo ...


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