1. Monteverdi was the first great operatic composer.

2. By Claudio Monteverdi. For SSATB choir acappella. Published by Edition Peters.

3. Monteverdi firstly established the basic model for opera genres in the development history of opera. On this basis, Gluck's drastic reform led the art of opera to a new historical process.

4. There are lots of wonderful musical settings of her grief and rage at this point, notably one by Monteverdi.

5. Its repertory spans almost the entire history of music from Monteverdi, Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart to the romantics and to the 20th century composers.

6. Madrigal in 16-century Italy experienced early, middle and late stages. Claudio Monteverdi was an composer in the late stage.

7. There are musicologists who assert that the three great innovators in our musical history were Monteverdi, Bach, and Stravinsky, though the assertion is disputable.

8. From his teen to middle age, till the old age, Monteverdi has devoted his whole life to composing madrigal and publishing eight volumes of Madrigal altogether.