'I am the music…' — Monteverdi at the Frari

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The Venice Monteverdi Academy presents a series of concerts in memory of Monteverdi in Venice.

On August 19th 1613 Claudio Monteverdi was appointed as Maestro di Cappella at St. Mark's Church in Venice. 400 years later the Venice Monteverdi Academy celebrates his art and work with a series of concerts at the Basilica dei Frari, where Claudio Monteverdi was buried in 1643.

'I am the music …' — Monteverdi at the Frari, scheduled from May 31st to June 16th, 2013, offers a spiritual approach to the music of Monteverdi: respect, admiration and attempt to understand the deep meaning his music.

On June 16th, a brief look through the works of two of the greatest exponents of the main schools of the Italian polyphonic music history: Venice and Rome. The Choir Academy of St. Spirit of Ferrara with Francis Pinamonti interpret the music of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Gregorio Allegri and Claudio Monteverdi.