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Monteverdi

noun
1.
Italian composer (1567-1643).  Synonym: Claudio Monteverdi.






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... only how little he had done, but how surely all modern music was doomed to destruction. More quickly than any other the language of music is consumed by its own heat; at the end of a century or two it is understood only by a few initiates. For how many do Monteverdi and Lully still exist? Already the oaks of the classic forest are eaten away with moss. Our buildings of sound, in which our passions sing, will soon be empty temples, will soon crumble away into oblivion.—And Christophe was amazed to find himself ...
— Jean-Christophe Journey's End • Romain Rolland



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