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Who was Marcantonio Ingegneri, Claudio Monteverdiās early music teacher?
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Monteverdi, oil painting by Bernardo Strozzi, c. 1630; in the Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria.
Marcantonio Ingegneri was a well-known musician who served as the director of music at the Cremona cathedral. He was a composer of distinction who wrote church music and madrigals in a contemporary, though not revolutionary, style during the 1570s. As the early teacher of Claudio Monteverdi, Ingegneri influenced the young composer's initial works, which were written in a manner similar to his master's style.1