"La Poppea Impasticciata" or, Who Wrote the Music to "L'Incoronazione" (1643)?

Abstract

IKE SO MUCH TRADITIONALLY ACCEPTED information-both right and L wrong--on mid-seventeenth-century Venetian opera, the attribution to Monteverdi of the musical setting of Busenello's L'incoronazione di Poppea stems largely from a source originating long after the composer's-and librettist's-demise. Thomas Walker (1976) has shown that this source, Cristoforo Ivanovich's Minerva al tavolino (Venice, 1681), is often inaccurate. In addition to the errors Walker cites, there is the oft-repeated notion of a revival of Poppea in 1646, which in fact never took place, and which probably comes from Ivanovich's having read the handwritten date 1646 on the cover of a Poppea libretto now in the library of the Rome Conservatory (Santa Cecilia). If one looks beyond the cover, this printed libretto turns out to be the same as all the others: L' / Incoronatione / Di / Poppea / Di Gio:

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