Crossword-Solution: MONTEVERDI 10 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

For how many do Monteverdi and Lully still exist? Already the oaks of the classic forest are eaten away with moss.

This style of music acquired a still greater number of fresh beauties in _Euridice_, a work by the same authors, and then in _Ariadne_, by Signor Claudio Monteverdi, to-day _Maestro di Capella at Venice_." Your modern theorist could hardly express his operatic creed with greater felicity than the Florentine noble, Ottavio Rinuccini, and the whole quotation breathes in its quaint phraseology, the spirit of love for all that is new and beautiful in Art, which gave Italy her hegemony amongst other nations.

Then such musicians came to mind as Monteverdi and Carissimi, the latter of whom made clear the path, for those great writers of oratorio, whose names we hold in such reverence, and whose works we love with such unwavering devotion.

Soon afterwards Monteverdi (1567-1643), a revolutionary genius in the history of music, produced his operas at Mantua.

The orchestrations of Monteverdi prove that composers at that time varied their instrumentation thus, and this particular artifice was not one of the least causes of the prodigious success of opera in the first years of its creation.’ This was followed by a solo singer accompanied by a lyre, after whose aria Atlanta and Theseus appeared to the sound of brass instruments.