Editing Claudio Monteverdi (section)

===Cremona: 1567–1591===
Monteverdi was baptised in the church of SS Nazaro e Celso, Cremona, on 15 May 1567. The register records his name as "Claudio Zuan Antonio" the son of "Messer Baldasar Mondeverdo".<ref name=fabbri6>Fabbri (2007), p. 6</ref> He was the first child of the apothecary Baldassare Monteverdi and his first wife Maddalena (née Zignani); they had married early the previous year. Claudio's brother [[Giulio Cesare Monteverdi]] (b. 1573) was also to become a musician; there were two other brothers and two sisters from Baldassare's marriage to Maddalena and his subsequent marriage in 1576 or 1577.<ref name=Carter1>Carter and Chew (n.d.), §1 "Cremona"</ref> Cremona was close to the border of the Republic of Venice, and not far from the lands controlled by the [[Duchy of Mantua]], in both of which states Monteverdi was later to establish his career.<ref name=fabbri6 />

[[File:Cremona Duomo.jpg|right|thumb|Cremona Cathedral, where Monteverdi's teacher Ingegneri was ''maestro di capella'']]

There is no clear record of Monteverdi's early musical training, or evidence that (as is sometimes claimed) he was a member of the Cathedral choir or studied at Cremona University. Monteverdi's first published work, a set of [[motets]], ''{{lang|la|Sacrae cantiunculae}} (Sacred Songs)'' for three voices, was issued in Venice in 1582, when he was only fifteen years old. In this, and his other initial publications, he describes himself as the pupil of [[Marc'Antonio Ingegneri]], who was from 1581 (and possibly from 1576) to 1592 the ''[[maestro di cappella]]'' at [[Cremona Cathedral]]. The musicologist [[Tim Carter (musicologist)|Tim Carter]] deduces that Ingegneri "gave him a solid grounding in [[counterpoint]] and composition", and that Monteverdi would also have studied playing instruments of the [[viol]] family and singing.<ref name=Carter1/><ref>Carter (2002), p. 1</ref><ref name=whenhamxv>Whenham (2007) "Chronology", p. xv.</ref><ref name=Arnold515>Arnold (1980a), p. 515</ref>

Monteverdi's first publications also give evidence of his connections beyond Cremona, even in his early years. His second published work, ''Madrigali spirituali'' (Spiritual Madrigals, 1583), was printed at [[Brescia]]. His next works (his first published secular compositions) were sets of five-part [[madrigal]]s, according to his biographer [[Paolo Fabbri (musicologist)|Paolo Fabbri]]: "the inevitable proving ground for any composer of the second half of the sixteenth century&nbsp;... the secular genre ''par excellence''". The first book of madrigals (Venice, 1587) was dedicated to Count Marco Verità of [[Verona]]; the second book of madrigals (Venice, 1590) was dedicated to the President of the [[Senate]] of Milan, Giacomo Ricardi, for whom he had played the [[viola da braccio]] in 1587.<ref name=Carter1/><ref name=whenhamxv /><ref>Fabbri (2007), p. 15</ref>