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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi, oil painting by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630; in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria.
As a young person in Cremona, Claudio Monteverdi studied music under Marcantonio Ingegneri, who served as the director of music at the Cremona cathedral. Ingegneri was a distinguished musician known for his madrigals and church music. Under his tutelage, the precocious Monteverdi began publishing his own religious and secular compositions while still in his teens.1