Monteverdi Quotes
- Theirs [the Beatles] is a happy, cocky, belligerently resourceless brand of harmonic primitivism... In the Liverpudlian repertoire, the indulged amateurishness of the musical material, though… — Glenn Gould
- I still the love classic period, but also the baroque period, and even 17th-Century music such as the music of Monteverdi. He's one of the… — Cecilia Bartoli
- We consider Monteverdi the first composer of opera. There was someone before, but everything started with Monteverdi. — Cecilia Bartoli