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List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni

This is a list of works by the Italian composer Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751).

Tomaso Albinoni

Vocal music edit

Operas edit

Most of Albinoni's works were dramma per musica, but only two of them still exist in a complete form: Zenobia, regina de' Palmireni and La Statira.[1]

Title Genre Sub­divisions Libretto Première date Place, theatre Notes
Zenobia, regina de’ Palmireni dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Marchi 1694, carnival Venice, Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo version of the score survives in Library of Congress, Washington
Il prodigio dell’innocenza dramma 3 acts Fulgenzio Maria Gualazzi 1695, carnival Venice, Teatro Santi Giovanni e Paolo music lost
Zenone, imperator d’Oriente dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Marchi 1696, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
Il Tigrane, re d’Armenia dramma per musica 3 acts Giulio Cesare Corradi 1697, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
Primislao, primo re di Boemia dramma per musica 3 acts Giulio Cesare Corradi 1697, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
L’ingratitudine castigata dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1698, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
Radamisto dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Marchi 1698, autumn Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost, except some arias
Diomede punito da Alcide dramma 3 acts Aurelio Aureli 1700, autumn Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
L’inganno innocente dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1701, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost, except some arias
L’arte in gara con l’arte dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1702, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
Griselda dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1703, carnival Florence, Cocomero music lost, except three arias
Aminta dramma regio pastorale 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1703, autumn Florence, Cocomero music lost
Il più fedel tra i vassalli dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1705, autumn Genoa, Falcone music lost
La prosperità di Elio Sejano dramma per musica 3 acts Nicolò Minato 1707, carnival Genoa, Falcone music lost
La fede tra gl’inganni dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1707, Carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
La fortezza al cimento melodramma 2 acts Francesco Silvani 1707 Piacenza, Ducale music lost
Astarto dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati 1708, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost, except some arias
Pimpinone intermezzo 3 intermezzos Pietro Pariati 1708, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano
Engelberta dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati 1709, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano 4th and 5th acts by Francesco Gasparini
Il tradimento tradito dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1708, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Ciro riconosciuto dramma per musica 3 acts Pietro Pariati 1710, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost, except some arias
Il tiranno eroe dramma per musica 3 acts Vincenzo Cassani 1711, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost, except 26 arias
Il Giustino dramma per musica 5 acts Pietro Pariati after Nicolò Beregan 1711, spring Bologna, Formagliari music lost
La pace generosa dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani 1711, autumn Genoa, Falcone music lost
Le gare generose dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Zaniboni 1712, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost, except five arias
Lucio Vero dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1713, spring Ferrara, S Stefano music lost
L'amor di figlio non conosciuto dramma per musica 3 acts Domenico Lalli 1716, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Eumene dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Salvi 1717, autumn Venice, Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo music lost, except one aria
Meleagro dramma per musica 3 acts Pietro Antonio Bernardoni 1718, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Cleomene dramma per musica 3 acts Vincenzo Cassani 1718, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Gli eccessi della gelosia dramma per musica 3 acts Domenico Lalli 1722, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost, except some arias
I veri amici dramma per musica 3 acts Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli after Pierre Corneille 1722, October Munich, Hof music lost, except 15 arias
Il trionfo d’amore dramma per musica 3 acts Pietro Pariati 1722, November Munich music lost
Eumene dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1723, carnival Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost, except two arias
Ermengarda dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Maria Lucchini 1723, autumn Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost, except one aria
Antigono, tutore di Filippo, re di Macedonia tragedia 5 acts Giovanni Piazzon 1724, carnival Venice, Teatro San Moisè 5th act by Giovanni Porta, music lost except one aria
Scipione nelle Spagne dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1724, Ascension Venice, Teatro San Samuele music lost, except some arias
Laodice dramma per musica 3 acts Angelo Schietti 1724, autumn Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost, except two arias
Didone abbandonata tragedia 3 acts Metastasio 1725, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
L'impresario delle Isole Canarie[2][3] intermezzo 2 acts Metastasio 1725, carnival Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
Alcina delusa da Ruggero dramma per musica 3 acts Antonio Marchi 1725, autumn Venice, Teatro S Cassiano music lost
I rivali generosi dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1725 Brescia, Nuovo music lost
La Statira dramma per musica 3 acts Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati 1726, Carnival Rome, Teatro Capranica
Malsazio e Fiammetta intermezzo   1726, Carnival Rome, Teatro Capranica text and music lost
Il trionfo di Armida dramma per musica 3 acts Girolamo Colatelli after Torquato Tasso 1726, autumn Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost
L’incostanza schernita dramma comico-pastorale 3 acts Vincenzo Cassani 1727, Ascension Venice, Teatro San Samuele music lost, except some arias
Le due rivali in amore dramma per musica 3 acts Aurelio Aureli 1728, autumn Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost
Il Satrapone intermezzo   Antonio Salvi 1729 Parma, Omodeo music lost
Li stratagemmi amorosi dramma per musica 3 acts F Passerini 1730, carnival Venice, Teatro San Moisè music lost
Elenia dramma per musica 3 acts Luisa Bergalli 1730, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Merope dramma 3 acts Apostolo Zeno 1731, autumn Prague, Sporck Theater mostly by Albinoni, music lost
Il più infedel tra gli amanti dramma per musica 3 acts Angelo Schietti 1731, autumn Treviso, Dolphin music lost
Ardelinda dramma 3 acts Bartolomeo Vitturi 1732, autumn Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost, except five arias
Candalide dramma per musica 3 acts Bartolomeo Vitturi 1734, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost
Artamene dramma per musica 3 acts Bartolomeo Vitturi 1741, carnival Venice, Teatro Sant'Angelo music lost

Intermezzi edit

  • (Vespetta e) Pimpinone (Pietro Pariati), Venice 1708
  • Malsazio e Fiammetta (unidentified), Rome 1726 (text and music lost)
  • Il Satrapone (Antonio Salvi), P 1729 (music lost)
  • L'impresario delle Isole Canarie (Pietro Metastasio) 1725 (music lost)[4][5]

Serenate edit

  • Il nascimento dell’Aurora (unidentified), Venice 1715
  • Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo (Vincenzo Cassani), Venice 1724
  • Il concilio de’ pianeti (Girolamo Baruffaldi), Venice 1729

Cantatas edit

  • 12 Cantate da camera a voce sola, op. 4 (for voices and bass continuo), Venice 1702
    • No. 1: Amor, Sorte, Destino (for soprano)
    • No. 2: Da l’arco d’un bel ciglio (for alto)
    • No. 3: Del chiaro rio (for soprano)
    • No. 4: Riedi a me, luce gradita (for alto)
    • No. 5: Lontananza crudel, mi squarci il core (for soprano)
    • No. 6: Filli, chiedi al mio core (for alto)
    • No. 7: Ove rivolgo il piede (for soprano)
    • No. 8: Mi dà pena quando spira (for alto)
    • No. 9: Parti, mi lasci, ah quale (for soprano)
    • No. 10: Son qual Tantalo novello (for alto)
    • No. 11: Poiché al vago seren di due pupille (for soprano)
    • No. 12: Chi non sa quanto inumano (for alto)
  • 18 Cantatas for Soprano and Bass continuo, Staatsbibliothek Berlin, ms. 447
    • No. 1: Il bel ciglio d’Irene
    • No. 2: Già dal mar sorgea l’alba
    • No. 3: Amarissime pene, suonate ormai
    • No. 4: (as op. 4 no. 5)
    • No. 5: Sorgea col lume in fronte
    • No. 6: Lontan da te, mia vita
    • No. 7: Sovra letto d’erbette
    • No. 8: (as op. 4 no. 11)
    • No. 9: Il penar senza speranza
    • No. 10: Senti, bel sol, deh senti
    • No. 11: Quest’è l’ora fatale
    • No. 12: Di tante ree sciagure
    • No. 13: Fileno, caro amico
    • No. 14: Sovra molle origliere
    • No. 15: Clori nel ciel d’amor lucida stella
    • No. 16: Dubbio affetto il cor mi strugge (Amante timido)
    • No. 17: Rivolse Clori un giorno
    • No. 18: Donna illustre del Latio
  • Other cantatas
    • Bel fantasmo tu fosti al mio pensiero (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Bella, perché tu forsi (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Biondo crin, occhio nero, e sen d’avorio (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Che ne dici, che risolvi (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Crudelissimo amore (for alto and bass continuo)
    • Dove sei, che fai cor mio (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • E dove, Amor, mi guidi (for soprano, instruments and bass continuo)
    • Fatto bersaglio eterno (for alto and bass continuo)
    • Già tornava l’aurora
    • In alta rocca, ove d’un genio amico (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Io che per colpa sol del fatio rio (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Là dove il nobil Giano (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Quanta pietà mi date, o mesti fiori (for soprano and bass continuo)
    • Senza il core del mio bene (for soprano or alto and bass continuo)
    • Vorrei che lo sapessi (for alto and bass continuo)
    • Vorrei scoprir l’affanno (for soprano and bass continuo)

Religious music edit

  • Messa a tre voci (for 2 tenors and bass, a cappella), before 1694
  • I trionfi di Giosuè (Oratorium; Text: Giovanni Pietro Berzini), Florence 1703 (together with Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Bononcini et al.)
  • Maria annunziata (Oratorium; Text: Francesco Silvani), Florence 1712

Instrumental music edit

With opus numbers edit

  • Op. 1: 12 Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), Venice 1694
    • No. 1 in D minor
    • No. 2 in F major
    • No. 3 in A major
    • No. 4 in G minor
    • No. 5 in C major
    • No. 6 in A minor
    • No. 7 in G major
    • No. 8 in B minor
    • No. 9 in D major
    • No. 10 in F minor
    • No. 11 in E minor
    • No. 12 in B-flat major
  • Op. 2: 6 Sinfonie & 6 Concerti a cinque [scores] (for solo violin (in concertos only), 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), Venice 1700
    • Sonata No. 1 in G major
    • Concerto No. 1 in F major
    • Sonata No. 2 in C major
    • Concerto No. 2 in E minor (=BWV Anh. 23)
    • Sonata No. 3 in A major
    • Concerto No. 3 in B-flat major
    • Sonata No. 4 in C minor
    • Concerto No. 4 in G major
    • Sonata No. 5 in B-flat major
    • Concerto No. 5 in C major
    • Sonata No. 6 in G minor
    • Concerto No. 6 in D major
  • Op. 3: 12 Balletti a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), Venice 1701
    • No. 1 in C major
    • No. 2 in E minor
    • No. 3 in G major
    • No. 4 in A major
    • No. 5 in D minor
    • No. 6 in F major
    • No. 7 in D major
    • No. 8 in C minor
    • No. 9 in G minor
    • No. 10 in E major
    • No. 11 in A minor
    • No. 12 in B-flat major
  • Op. 5: 12 Concerti a cinque (for solo violin, 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), Venice 1707
    • No. 1 in B-flat major
    • No. 2 in F major
    • No. 3 in D major
    • No. 4 in G major
    • No. 5 in A minor
    • No. 6 in C major
    • No. 7 in D minor
    • No. 8 in F major
    • No. 9 in E minor
    • No. 10 in A major
    • No. 11 in G minor
    • No. 12 in C major
  • Op. 6: 12 Trattenimenti armonici per camera (for violin and basso continuo), Amsterdam c. 1711
    • No. 1 in C major
    • No. 2 in G minor
    • No. 3 in B-flat major
    • No. 4 in D minor
    • No. 5 in F major
    • No. 6 in A minor
    • No. 7 in D major
    • No. 8 in E minor
    • No. 9 in G major
    • No. 10 in C minor
    • No. 11 in A major
    • No. 12 in B-flat major
  • Op. 7: 12 Concerti a cinque (for solo violin, 1 or 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, cello and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1715
    • No. 1 in D major
    • No. 2 in C major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 3 in B-flat major (for oboe)
    • No. 4 in G major
    • No. 5 in C major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 6 in D major (for oboe)
    • No. 7 in A major
    • No. 8 in D major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 9 in F major (for oboe)
    • No. 10 in B-flat major
    • No. 11 in C major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 12 in C major (for oboe)
  • Op. 8: 6 Balletti & 6 Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), 1722
    • Sonata No. 1 in B-flat major
    • Balletto No. 1 in D minor
    • Sonata No. 2 in A major
    • Balletto No. 2 in F major
    • Sonata No. 3 in C major
    • Balletto No. 3 in D major
    • Sonata No. 4 in G minor
    • Balletto No. 4 in B-flat major
    • Sonata No. 5 in F major
    • Balletto No. 5 in C major
    • Sonata No. 6 in C minor
    • Balletto No. 6 in G minor
  • Op. 9: 12 Concerti a cinque (for solo violin, 1 or 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, cello and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1722
    • No. 1 in B-flat major (for violin)
    • No. 2 in D minor (for oboe)
    • No. 3 in F major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 4 in A major (for violin)
    • No. 5 in C major (for oboe)
    • No. 6 in G major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 7 in D major (for violin)
    • No. 8 in G minor (for oboe)
    • No. 9 in C major (for 2 oboes)
    • No. 10 in F major (for violin)
    • No. 11 in B-flat major (for oboe)
    • No. 12 in D major (for 2 oboes)
  • Op. 10: 12 Concerti a cinque (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola, cello and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1735/36
    • No. 1 in B-flat major
    • No. 2 in G minor (for violin)
    • No. 3 in C major
    • No. 4 in G major (for violin)
    • No. 5 in A major
    • No. 6 in D major (for violin)
    • No. 7 in F major
    • No. 8 in G minor (for violin)
    • No. 9 in C major
    • No. 10 in F major (for violin)
    • No. 11 in C minor
    • No. 12 in B-flat major (for violin)
  • Op. 11: Sonate a tre (for two violins and basso continuo), c. 1739 (not published) (lost)

Without opus numbers edit

Sinfonias edit

  • Si 1: Sinfonia in D major for the first act of Zenobia (for natural trumpet, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello and basso continuo), 1694
  • Si 2: Sinfonia in F major for the first act of Engelberta (for 2 violins, 2 violas, cello and basso continuo), 1709
  • Si 3: Sinfonia in A major (for 2 violins, viola, violone, and basso continuo), c. 1707–15
  • Si 4: Sinfonia in D major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo; manuscript versions for 2 oboes and bassoon), c. 1707–15
  • Si 5: Sinfonia in A major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1707–15
  • Si 6: Sinfonia in B major (for 2 violins, viola, bassoon and basso continuo), c. 1715–22
  • Si 7: Sinfonia in G minor (for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 violas, bassoon and basso continuo), c. 1715–22
  • Si 8: Sinfonia in G major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1722–35
  • Si 9: Sinfonia in F major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1722–35

Concertos edit

  • Co 1: Concerto in D major (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola, violone and basso continuo), before 1700
  • Co 2: Concerto in C major (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1717
  • Co 3: Concerto in D major (for solo violin and strings), c. 1715–22
  • Co 4: Concerto in G major (for 1 or 2 solo violins, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1717
  • Co 5: Concerto in A major adapted by Pisendel (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1717

Sonatas edit

  • So 1: Sonata a sei con tromba in C major (for natural trumpet, 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), c. 1700
  • So 2–7: Balletti a cinque (for 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), c. 1702
    • So 2: Balletto 1 in B-flat major
    • So 3: Balletto 2 in G minor
    • So 4: Balletto 3 in E minor
    • So 5: Balletto 4 in F minor
    • So 6: Balletto 5 in A major
    • So 7: Balletto 6 in F major
  • So 8–19: Balletti a quattro (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), c. 1700
    • So 8: Balletto 1 in G major
    • So 9: Balletto 2 in B minor
    • So 10: Balletto 3 in D major
    • So 11: Balletto 4 in A major
    • So 12: Balletto 5 in C major
    • So 13: Balletto 6 in E minor
    • So 14: Balletto 7 in F major
    • So 15: Balletto 8 in A minor
    • So 16: Balletto 9 in B-flat major
    • So 17: Balletto 10 in D minor
    • So 18: Balletto 11 in E major
    • So 19: Balletto 12 in G minor
  • So 20–25: Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), before 1700
    • So 20: Sonata 1 in C major
    • So 21: Sonata 2 in B-flat major
    • So 22: Sonata 3 in F major
    • So 23: Sonata 4 in D major
    • So 24: Sonata 5 in G major
    • So 25: Sonata 6 in A major
  • So 26–31: Sonate da chiesa ("op. 4") (for violin and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1708
    • So 26: Sonata 1 in D minor
    • So 27: Sonata 2 in E minor
    • So 28: Sonata 3 in B-flat major
    • So 29: Sonata 4 in G minor (spurious)
    • So 30: Sonata 5 in G minor
    • So 31: Sonata 6 in B minor
  • So 32: Sonata a violino solo composta per il Sig. Pisendel in B-flat major (for violin and basso continuo), c. 1717
  • So 33: Solo in G minor (for violin and basso continuo), c. 1717
  • So 34: Solo in B-flat major (for violin and basso continuo), c. 1717
  • So 35–39: Sonate a violino solo e basso continuo (for violin and basso continuo), Amsterdam c. 1717
    • So 35: Sonata 1 in D minor
    • So 36: Sonata 2 in G minor
    • So 37: Sonata 3 in A major
    • So 38: Sonata 4 in A major
    • So 39: Sonata 5 in E minor (spurious)
  • So 40–45: Six sonates da camera (op. post.) (for violin and basso continuo), Paris c. 1740
    • So 40: Sonata 1 in F major (spurious)
    • So 41: Sonata 2 in A minor
    • So 42: Sonata 3 in E major (spurious)
    • So 43: Sonata 4 in D minor (spurious)
    • So 44: Sonata 5 in D major (spurious)
    • So 45: Sonata 6 in A major

References edit

  1. ^ *Warrack, John and West, Ewan (1992), The Oxford Dictionary of Opera, 782 pages, ISBN 0-19-869164-5
  2. ^ Don Neville, "Metastasio, Pietro." The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. Oxford University Press, See under: Writings/Operas/L'impresario delle Isole Canarie
  3. ^ Printed libretto for a performance in the San Cassiano theater, 1725, Code IT\ICCU\MUS\0002663, VE0239,VEAFC, Biblioteca della Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Venezia - VE - [fondo/collocazione] ROLANDI MUSICA 2B RAC
  4. ^ Don Neville, "Metastasio, Pietro." The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. Ed. Stanley Sadie. Oxford University Press, See under: Writings/Operas/L'impresario delle Isole Canarie
  5. ^ Printed libretto for a performance in the San Cassiano theater, 1725, Code IT\ICCU\MUS\0002663, VE0239,VEAFC, Biblioteca della Fondazione Giorgio Cini - Venezia - VE - [fondo/collocazione] ROLANDI MUSICA 2B RAC
  • Michael Talbot: "Tomaso Albinoni", Grove Music Online ed. L. Macy (Accessed June 25, 2005), (subscription access)
  • Michael Talbot: Tomaso Albinoni. The Venetian Composer and His World. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990. S. 271–281.
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