Vespro della Beata Vergine

Vespro della Beata Vergine is a collection of sacred music (a Vespers setting) by Claudio Monteverdi, published in 1610. The work blends late Renaissance polyphonic techniques with emerging Baroque concertato textures, juxtaposing choral and solo writing with varied instrumental forces, and it occupies a pivotal place in Monteverdi's career as a demonstration of his transition to new stylistic practices in early seventeenth-century sacred music.