List of Tomaso Albinoni's works

This list contains the works of the Italian composer and violinist Tomaso Albinoni (1671–1751).

Vocal music

Operas

Zenobia, regina de 'Palmireni (libretto: Antonio Marchi ), first performance: Venice 1694
Il prodigio dell'innocenza ( Fulgenzio Maria Gualazzi ), Venice 1695 [music lost]
Zenone, imperator d'Oriente (Antonio Marchi), Venice 1696 [music lost]
Il Tigrane, re d'Armenia ( Giulio Cesare Corradi ), Venice 1697 [music lost]
Primislao, primo re di Boemia (Giulio Cesare Corradi), Venice 1697 [music lost]
L'ingratitudine gastigata ( Francesco Silvani ), Venice 1698 [music lost]
Radamisto (Antonio Marchi), Venice 1698 [music except for a few arias lost]
Diomede punito da Alcide ( Aurelio Aureli ), Venice 1700 [music lost]
L'inganno innocente (Francesco Silvani), Venice 1701 [except for a few arias, music is missing]
L'arte in gara con l'arte (Francesco Silvani), Venice 1702 [music lost]
Griselda ( Apostolo Zeno ), Florence 1703 [all but three arias are missing]
Aminta (Apostolo Zeno), Florence 1703 [music lost]
Il più fedel tra i vassalli (Francesco Silvani), Genoa 1705 [music lost]
La prosperità di Elio Sejano ( Nicolò Minato ), Genoa 1707 [music lost]
La fortezza al cimento (Francesco Silvani), Piacenza 1707 [music lost]
La fede tra gl'inganni (Francesco Silvani), Venice 1707 [music lost]
Astarto (Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati ), Venice 1708 [except for a few arias, music is missing]
Il tradimento tradito (Francesco Silvani), Venice 1708 [music lost]
Engelberta (Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati), Venice 1709 [4. and 5th act by Francesco Gasparini ]
Ciro (Pietro Pariati), Venice 1710 [music except for a few arias lost]
Il tiranno eroe ( Vincenzo Cassani ), Venice 1711 [music except 26 arias are missing]
Il Giustino (Pietro Pariati after Nicolò Beregan ), Bologna 1711 [music lost]
La pace generosa (Francesco Silvani), Genoa 1711 [music lost]
Le gare generose ( Antonio Zaniboni ), Venice 1712 [ all but five arias are missing]

Lucio Vero (Apostolo Zeno), Ferrara 1713 [music lost]

I rivali generosi (Apostolo Zeno), Brescia 1715 [music lost]

L'amor di figlio non conosciuto ( Domenico Lalli ), Venice 1716 [music lost]

Eumene ( Antonio Salvi ), Venice 1717 [ all but one aria is missing]

Meleagro ( Pietro Antonio Bernardoni ), Venice 1718 [music lost]

Cleomene (Vincenzo Cassani), Venice 1718 [music lost]

Gli eccessi della gelosia (Domenico Lalli), Venice 1722 [music except for a few arias is missing]

I veri amici (Francesco Silvani and Domenico Lalli after Pierre Corneille ), Munich 1722 [music except for 15 arias lost]

Il trionfo d'amore (Pietro Pariati), Munich 1722 [music lost]

Eumene (Apostolo Zeno), Venice 1723 [music except two arias are missing]

Ermengarda ( Antonio Maria Lucchini ), Venice 1723 [music except one aria is missing]

Antigono, tutore di Filippo, re di Macedonia ( Giovanni Piazzon ), Venice 1724 [5. Act by Giovanni Porta , music lost except for one aria]

Scipione nelle Spagne (Apostolo Zeno), Venice 1724 [music except for a few arias is missing]

Laodice ( Angelo Schietti ), Venice 1724 [music except for two arias lost]

Didone abbandonata ( Pietro Metastasio ), Venice 1725 [music lost]

Alcina delusa da Ruggero (Antonio Marchi), Venice 1725 [music lost]

La Statira (Apostolo Zeno and Pietro Pariati), Rome 1726

Il trionfo di Armida ( Girolamo Colatelli after Torquato Tasso ), Venice 1726 [music lost]

L'incostanza schernita (Vincenzo Cassani), Venice 1727 [music except for a few arias is missing]

Le due rivali in amore (Aurelio Aureli), Venice 1728 [music lost]

Li stratagemmi amorosi ( F. Passerini ), Venice 1730 [music lost]

Elenia ( Luisa Bergalli ), Venice 1730 [music lost]

Merope (Apostolo Zeno), Prague 1731 [mostly by Albinoni, music lost]

Il più infedel tra gli amanti (Angelo Schietti), Treviso 1731 [music lost]

Ardelinda ( Bartolomeo Vitturi ), Venice 1732 [ all but five arias are missing]

Candalide (Bartolomeo Vitturi), Venice 1734 [music lost]

Artamene (Bartolomeo Vitturi), Venice 1741 [music lost]

Intermezzi

(Vespetta e) Pimpinone ( Pietro Pariati ), Venice 1708
Malsazio e Fiammetta (unknown), Rome 1726 [text and music lost]
Il Satrapone ( Antonio Salvi ), Parma 1729 [music lost]

Serenate

Il nascimento de l'Aurora (unknown), Venice ca.1710
Il nome glorioso in terra, santificato in cielo ( Vincenzo Cassani ), Venice 1724
Il concilio de 'pianeti ( Girolamo Baruffaldi ), Venice 1729

Cantatas

12 Cantate da camera a voce sola op. 4 (for voice and 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 basso 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 Illustrious del Latio
Other cantatas
- Bel fantasmo tu fosti al mio pensiero (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Bella, perché tu forsi (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Biondo crin, occhio nero, e sen d'avorio (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Che ne dici, che risolvi (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Crudelissimo amore (for alto and basso continuo)
- Dove sei, che fai cor mio (for soprano and basso continuo)
- E dove, Amor, mi guidi (for soprano, instruments and basso continuo)
- Fatto bersaglio eterno (for alto and basso continuo)
- Già tornava l'aurora [not yet autopsied]
- In alta rocca, ove d'un genio amico (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Io che per colpa sol del fatio rio (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Là dove il nobil Giano (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Quanta pietà mi date, o mesti fiori (for soprano and basso continuo)
- Senza il core del mio bene (for soprano or alto and basso continuo)
- Vorrei che lo sapessi (for alto and basso continuo)
- Vorrei scoprir l'affanno (for soprano and basso continuo)

Religious music

Messa a tre voci (for 2 tenors and bass a cappella), before 1694
I trionfi di Giosuè (oratorio; text: Giovanni Pietro Berzini ), Florence 1703 [joint work with Alessandro Scarlatti , Giovanni Battista Bononcini a . a.]
Maria annunziata (oratorio; text: Francesco Silvani ), Florence 1712

Instrumental music

Works with opus number

op. 1: Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), Venice 1694
- No. 1: Sonata in D minor
- No. 2: Sonata in F major
- No. 3: Sonata in A major
- No. 4: Sonata in G minor
- No. 5: Sonata in C major
- No. 6: Sonata in A minor
- No. 7: Sonata in G major
- No. 8: Sonata in B minor
- No. 9: Sonata in D major
- No. 10: Sonata in F minor
- No. 11: Sonata in E minor
- No. 12: Sonata in B flat major
op. 2: Sinfonie e concerti a cinque (for solo violin [only concerti], 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), Venice 1700
- No. 1: Sonata 1 in G major
- No. 2: Concerto 1 in F major
- No. 3: Sonata 2 in C major
- No. 4: Concerto 2 in E minor
- No. 5: Sonata 3 A major
- No. 6: Concerto 3 in B flat major
- No. 7: Sonata 4 in C minor
- No. 8: Concerto 4 in G major
- No. 9: Sonata 5 in B flat major
- No. 10: Concerto 5 in C major
- No. 11: Sonata 6 in G minor
- No. 12: Concerto 6 in D major
Op. 3: Balletti a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), Venice 1701
- No. 1: Balletto in C major
- No. 2: Balletto in E minor
- No. 3: Balletto in G major
- No. 4: Balletto in A major
- No. 5: Balletto in D minor
- No. 6: Balletto in F major
- No. 7: Balletto in D major
- No. 8: Balletto in C minor
- No. 9: Balletto in G minor
- No. 10: Balletto in E major
- No. 11: Balletto in A minor
- No. 12: Balletto in B flat major
op.5: Concerti a cinque (for solo violin, 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), Venice 1707
- No. 1: Concerto in B flat major
- No. 2: Concerto in F major
- No. 3: Concerto in D major
- No. 4: Concerto in G major
- No. 5: Concerto in A minor
- No. 6: Concerto in C major
- No. 7: Concerto in D minor
- No. 8: Concerto in F major
- No. 9: Concerto in E minor
- No. 10: Concerto in A major
- No. 11: Concerto in G minor
- No. 12: Concerto in C major
op. 6: Trattenimenti armonici per camera (for violin and basso continuo), Amsterdam approx. 1711
- No. 1: Sonata in C major
- No. 2: Sonata in G minor
- No. 3: Sonata in B flat major
- No. 4: Sonata in D minor
- No. 5: Sonata in F major
- No. 6: Sonata in A minor
- No. 7: Sonata in D major
- No. 8: Sonata in E minor
- No. 9: Sonata in G major
- No. 10: Sonata in C minor
- No. 11: Sonata in A major
- No. 12: Sonata in B flat major
op. 7: Concerti a cinque (for 1 or 2 oboes [partially], 2 violins, viola, cello and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1715
- No. 1: Concerto in D major
- No. 2: Concerto in C major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 3: Concerto in B flat major (for oboe)
- No. 4: Concerto in G major
- No. 5: Concerto in C major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 6: Concerto in D major (for oboe)
- No. 7: Concerto in A major
- No. 8: Concerto in D major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 9: Concerto in F major (for oboe)
- No. 10: Concerto in B flat major
- No. 11: Concerto in C major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 12: Concerto in C major (for oboe)
op.8: Balletti e sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1722
- No. 1: Sonata 1 in B flat major
- No. 2: Balletto 1 in D minor
- No. 3: Sonata 2 in A major
- No. 4: Balletto 2 in F major
- No. 5: Sonata 3 in C major
- No. 6: Balletto 3 D major
- No. 7: Sonata 4 in G minor
- No. 8: Balletto 4 in B flat major
- No. 9: Sonata 5 in F major
- No. 10: Balletto 5 in C major
- No. 11: Sonata 6 in C minor
- No. 12: Balletto 6 in G minor
op.9: Concerti a cinque (for solo violin or 1 or 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, cello and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1722
- No. 1: Concerto in B flat major (for violin)
- No. 2: Concerto in D minor (for oboe)
- No. 3: Concerto in F major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 4: Concerto in A major (for violin)
- No. 5: Concerto in C major (for oboe)
- No. 6: Concerto in G major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 7: Concerto in D major (for violin)
- No. 8: Concerto in G minor (for oboe)
- No. 9: Concerto in C major (for 2 oboes)
- No. 10: Concerto in F major (for violin)
- No. 11: Concerto in B flat major (for oboe)
- No. 12: Concerto in D major (for 2 oboes)
op. 10: Concerti a cinque (for solo violin [partially], 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1735/36
- No. 1: Concerto in B flat major
- No. 2: Concerto in G minor (for violin)
- No. 3: Concerto in C major
- No. 4: Concerto in G major (for violin)
- No. 5: Concerto in A major
- No. 6: Concerto in D major (for violin)
- No. 7: Concerto in F major
- No. 8: Concerto in G minor (for violin)
- No. 9: Concerto in C major
- No. 10: Concerto in F major (for violin)
- No. 11: Concerto in C minor
- No. 12: Concerto in B flat major (for violin)
op. 11: Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), unpublished, around 1739 [lost]

Works without an opus number (counted according to Talbot)

Symphonies

Si 1: Sinfonia in D major to the 1st act by Zenobia (for trumpet, 2 violins, 2 violas, cello and basso continuo), 1694
Si 2: Sinfonia in F major for Act 1 by Engelberta (for 2 violins, viola, violone and basso continuo), 1709
Si 3: Sinfonia A major (for 2 violins, viola, violone and basso continuo), approx. 1707–15
Si 4: Sinfonia in D major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo; additional handwritten parts for 2 oboes and bassoon), approx. 1707–15
Si 5: Sinfonia A major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), approx. 1707–15
Si 6: Sinfonia in B flat major (for 2 violins, viola, bassoon and basso continuo), approx. 1715–22
Si 7: Sinfonia in G minor (for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 violins, 2 violas, bassoon and basso continuo), approx. 1715–22
Si 8: Sinfonia in G major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), approx. 1722–35
Si 9: Sinfonia in F major (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), approx. 1722–35

Concerts

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), ca.1717
Co 3: Concerto in D major (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), approx. 1715–22
Co 4: Concerto in G major (for 1 or 2 solo violins, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), ca.1717
Co 5: Concerto in A major (for solo violin, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), ca.1717

Sonatas

So 1: Sonata a sei con tromba in C major (for trumpet, 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), ca.1700

Sun 2–7: Balletti a cinque (for 2 violins, 2 violas and basso continuo), approx. 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
Sun 6: Balletto 5 in A major
Sun 7: Balletto 6 in F major

Sun 8-19: Balletti a quattro (for 2 violins, viola and basso continuo), approx. 1700

Sun 8: Balletto 1 in G major
Sun 9: Balletto 2 B minor
So 10: Balletto 3 D major
Sun 11: Balletto 4 in A major
Sun 12: Balletto 5 in C major
Sun 13: Balletto 6 in E minor
Sun 14: Balletto 7 in F major
Sun 15: Balletto 8 in A minor
Sun 16: Balletto 9 in B flat major
Sun 17: Balletto 10 in D minor
Sun 18: Balletto 11 in E major
Sun 19: Balletto 12 in G minor

Sun 20-25: Sonate a tre (for 2 violins and basso continuo), before 1700

Sun 20: Sonata 1 in C major
Sun 21: Sonata 2 in B flat major
So 22: Sonata 3 in F major
Sun 23: Sonata 4 in D major
Sun 24: Sonata 5 in G major
So 25: Sonata 6 in A major

Sun 26–31: Sonata da chiesa “op. 4 “ (for violin and basso continuo), Amsterdam 1708

So 26: Sonata 1 in D minor
Sun 27: Sonata 2 in E minor
So 28: Sonata 3 in B flat major
Sun 29: Sonata 4 in G minor [authenticity doubted]
Sun 30: Sonata 5 in G minor
Sun 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), ca.1717
So 33: Solo in G minor (for violin and basso continuo), ca.1717
So 34: Solo in B flat major (for violin and basso continuo), ca.1717
Sun 35–39: Sonata a violino solo e basso continuo , Amsterdam approx. 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 [authenticity doubted]
Sun 40–45: Six sonates da camera “op. post. ” (for violin and basso continuo), Paris approx. 1740
- So 40: Sonata 1 in F major [authenticity doubted]
- So 41: Sonata 2 in A minor
- So 42: Sonata 3 in E major [authenticity doubted]
- So 43: Sonata 4 in D minor [authenticity doubted]
- So 44: Sonata 5 in D major [authenticity doubted]
- Sun 45: Sonata 6 in A major

literature

Michael Talbot : Albinoni. Life and work. Kunzelmann, Adliswil (Switzerland) 1980. pp. 193-244.
Michael Talbot: Tomaso Albinoni. The Venetian Composer and His World. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1990. pp. 271-281.

Web links

List of stage works by Tommaso Albinoni based on the MGG at Operone
Search for operas by Tomaso Albinoni (search term in the Autore field : "Albinoni Tomaso") in the Corago information system of the University of Bologna