Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610
1610 · Work
A vast setting of the Marian Vespers mixing old polyphony with the new operatic style, dedicated to Pope Paul V as a bid for a job in Rome.
On these timelines: Classical Music, Arts and Thoughts, Master, Italy (post-476 CE)
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Around 1610
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- English Civil War (1642)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Qing dynasty (1644)
- Peace of Westphalia (1648)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)