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Vespro della Beata Vergine (Vespers for the Blessed Virgin), SV 206, is an extended musical composition by Claudio Monteverdi for soloists, choirs, and orchestra, for the evening vespers service on Marian feasts. Monteverdi's Vespers is an ambitious work of religious music in scope and variety in both style and scoring, with a duration of around 90 minutes. The settings of the introduction, five psalms, five concerti, a hymn and two versions of the Magnificat were published in 1610, leading to the name Vespers of 1610.

Monteverdi composed the music while he was a court musician and composer of the Gonzaga, the dukes of Mantua, but aspiring to a better position. The text is compiled from several Biblical and liturgical texts in Latin. Some of them are traditionally part of the vespers on feasts celebrating Mary in the Catholic Church: the introductory Deus in adiutorium (Psalm 70:1), five psalms, a Marian hymn and the Magnificat. Monteverdi included additional mostly biblical texts for four motets which he inserted between the psalms, and a Marian litany. A performance in a vespers service would add antiphons for the specific occasion, introducing the psalms.