Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Claudio Monteverdi/archive1

TFA blurb review[edit]

Smerus, all the blurbs for 2017 FACs are being posted today, so I thought I'd drop a note here. This one is on WP:TFAP for May, in part as a commemoration, and I can do the blurb then, but please feel free to do it if you like. - Dank (push to talk) 19:23, 10 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods of music history. He was a court musician in Mantua (c. 1590–1613), and then maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in the Republic of Venice. His surviving music includes nine books of madrigals, in the tradition of earlier Renaissance polyphony, as well as large-scale sacred works and three complete operas. In his later works he began to employ the basso continuo technique, distinctive of the Baroque. His music, including his Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers), enjoyed a rediscovery around the beginning of the twentieth century, and he is now established as a significant influence in European musical history. Seven of his operas have been lost, but his L'Orfeo (1607) is the earliest opera still widely performed. (Full article...)

Smerus, and anyone else interested: thoughts and edits (up to 1025 characters total) are welcome. There's no rush; this hasn't been scheduled at TFA yet (but I see it's listed at WP:TFAP for May). - Dank (push to talk) 23:28, 29 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Dank, thank you for sorting this and for contacting me. I have two issues. Basso continuo is only mentioned in the article I think in connection with its use with the concertato technique in the madrigals of 1605, a relatively early work, so that sentence won't I think hold. Also the Vespers weren't republished until the 1930s, which is maybe a bit late for 'around the beginning of the 20th century'. So maybe something like -

Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a transitional figure between the Renaissance and the Baroque periods of music history. He was a court musician in Mantua (c. 1590–1613), and then maestro di cappella at St Mark's Basilica in the Republic of Venice. His surviving music includes nine books of madrigals, in the tradition of earlier Renaissance polyphony (but also experimenting with the basso continuo technique, distinctive of the Baroque), as well as large-scale sacred works and three complete operas. His music, including his Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers), enjoyed a rediscovery from the 1880s onwards, and he is now established as a significant influence in European musical history. Seven of his operas have been lost, but his L'Orfeo (1607) is the earliest opera still widely performed.

Best, --Smerus (talk) 10:41, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

"choirmaster" redirecting to "choir" (also in source article). The choir article is not very relevent here. Would not "maestro di cappella" redirecting to "Kapellmeister" be a more accurate term for Monteverdi's work as well as a more informative, enriching link? (choirmaster suggests something quite specific and limited to me). Scarabocchio (talk) 11:29, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Maestro di cappella is the best phrase for "Kapellmeister" to link to, I think ... there's no exact English equivalent that I'm aware of. Removing or delinking "choirmaster" would certainly work. Smerus: thanks much, looks great. - Dank (push to talk) 13:49, 31 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]