List of compositions by Antonio Salieri explained

This is a list of musical compositions by Antonio Salieri (August 18, 1750 - May 7, 1825), organized by genre. Together, the opus consists of approximately 652 works.

Secular vocal music

Operas

Insertion arias and ensembles

Ballets and incidental music

Ballet in 7 movements for "L'Europa riconosciuta" (1778)
Ballet in 16 movements
Ballet in 10 movements
Ballet in 8 movements
Fragmentary ballet
Overture, four incidental pieces and nine choirs for "Die Hussiten vor Naumburg" by August von Kotzebue (1803)

Secular cantatas

Cantata per le nozze di Francesco I for soloists, choir and orchestra (1808)
Der Tyroler Landsturm for soprano, alto, tenor, bass, double choir, orchestra and speaker (1799)^[1]
Die vier Tageszeiten for choir and orchestra (1819)
Du, dieses Bundes Fels for choir and orchestra
Habsburg for tenor, bass, choir and orchestra (1805/06)
Il Trionfo della Gloria e della Virtù for two sopranos, tenor, choir and orchestra (1774 or 1775)
La Riconoscenza for soprano, choir of five voices and orchestra (1796)
La Riconoscenza de' Tirolesi for choir and Orchester (1800)
La Sconfitta di Borea for soloists, choir and orchestra (1774 or 1775)
Lasset uns nahen alle for tenor, bass, choir and Orchester
Le Jugement dernier for tenor, choir and orchestra (1787/88)
L'Oracolo muto for soloists, choir and orchestra (1802/03)
Wie eine purpur Blume for two sopranos, choir and orchestra

Secular choirs

"An den erwünschten Frieden im Jahr 1814" for choir and orchestra (1814)
"An die Religion" for choir a cappella (1814) - there is also a version for SATB choir with basso continuo. This work was intended for choir and orchestra, but in manuscript, only 1st Violin part is noted occasionally.
"Bei Gelegenheit des Friedens" for soprano solo, tenor, bass and orchestra (1800)
"Beide reichen Dir die Hand" for choir - fragment -
"Del redentore lo scempio" for choir and orchestra (ca. 1805)
"Der Vorsicht Gunst beschütze, beglücktes Österreich, dich" for choir and orchestra (1813) - new version of the final movement of "Der Tyroler Landsturm" (1799) -
"Dio serva Francesco" for choir and orchestra
"Do re mi fa" for choir a cappella (1818)
"Es schallen die Töne" for choir and orchestra
"Herzliche Empfindung bey dem so lange ersehnten und nun hergestellten Frieden im Jahr 1814" for choir and orchestra (1814)
"O Friede, reich am Heil des Herrn" - see: "Herzliche Empfindung bey dem so lange ersehnten und nun hergestellten Frieden im Jahr 1814" -
"Hinab in den Schoß der Amphitrite" for choir and orchestra (from "Danaus"?)
"Il piacer la gioia" for choir and orchestra
"Ogni bosco, ogni pendice" for choir and orchestra
"Religion, Du Himmelstochter" - see: "An die Religion" -
"Schweb herab, o holder Seraph Friede" - see: "An den erwünschten Frieden im Jahr 1814" -
"Schwer lag auf unserem Vaterlande" - see: "Rückerinnerung der Deutschen nell'anno 1813" -
"Rückerinnerung der Deutschen nell'anno 1813" for choir and orchestra (1813/14)
Songs, ensembles and canons with or without piano - approximately 340 works -

Sacred vocal music

Oratories and sacred cantatas

Davidde for soloists, choir and orchestra (1791) - fragment -
Gesù al limbo for soloists, choir and orchestra (1803)
La passione di Gesù Cristo for soloists, choir and Orchester (1776)
Le Jugement dernier for tenor, choir and orchestra (1787/88) - see above -
Saul for soloists, choir and orchestra (1791) - fragment -

Masses and single movements

Mass in C major for choir a Cappella (1767) - also known as Missa Stylo a Cappella
Mass in D major for choir and orchestra (1788) - called Hofkapellmeistermesse
Mass in C major for double choir and orchestra (1799) - called Proklamationsmesse
Mass in D minor for soloists, choir and orchestra (1805)
Mass in B-flat major for soloists, choir and orchestra (1809)
Kyrie in C major for soloists, choir and orchestra (1812) - part of an unfinished mass -
Kyrie in F major for choir and orchestra - a fragment -

Requiem masses

Requiem in C minor for soloists, choir and orchestra (1804)
Requiem in D minor for choir and orchestra (c. 1815–20) - fragment -

Graduals

"Ad te levavi animam meam" in E-flat major for choir and orchestra
"A solis ortu" pro Festo SS. Corporis Christi, in C major for choir and orchestra (1810)
"Benedicam Dominum" pro Dominica 12ma post Pentecostem aut de Tempore, in B-flat major for choir and orchestra
"Improperium" in c minor for choir a Cappella (1810)
"Justorum animae" in A major for choir and orchestra
"Liberasti nos, Domine" pro Dominica XXIII. et ultima post Pentecostem, in D major for choir and orchestra (1799)
"Magna opera Domini" da tempore, in D major for choir and orchestra (1810)
"Spiritus meus" in d minor for choir and orchestra (1820)
"Tres sunt, qui testimonium dant in coelo" de SS. Trinitate, in D major for choir and orchestra
"Veni Sancte Spiritus" in B-flat major for choir and orchestra (1800)
"Veni Sancte Spiritus" pro Festo Pentecostem, in B-flat major for choir and orchestra (1805)
"Venite gentes" in C major for double choir and orchestra (1799)
"Vox tua mi Jesu" in C major for choir and orchestra (1774)

Offertories

"Alleluja (deinde) Bonum est" in D major for choir, strings and organ
"Alleluja" in D major for choir and orchestra (1774) - 1788 reused as "Amen"-Fugue in the "Gloria" of the Mass in D major -
"Assumpta est Maria" in C major for choir and orchestra (1799)
"Audite vocem magnam" in C major for Chor und orchestra (1809)
"Beatus vir, qui non abit" in D major for soloists, choir and orchestra
"Benedixisti Domine" in F major for choir a cappella
"Benedixisti Domine" in F major for choir a cappella
"Cantate Domino omnis terra" in C major for double choir and orchestra (1799)
"Confirma hoc Deus" in C major for soloists, choir and orchestra (1809)
"Desiderium animae" in F major for soprano, alto, bass and orchestra
"Domine, Dominus noster" in G major for choir and orchestra (1812)
"Dum corde pio" in C major for choir, double-bass and organ
"Excelsus super omnes gentes Dominus" in C major for choir and orchestra (1806)
"Gloria et honor(e)" in C major for choir and orchestra (1809)
"Jubilate Deo" in A major for choir and orchestra
"Justus ut palma" in B-flat major for choir and orchestra
"Lauda Sion Salvatorem" in C major for choir and orchestra (1805)
"Laudate Dominum omnes gentes" in D major for choir and orchestra (1809)
"Magna et mirabilia sunt opera tua" in C major for choir and orchestra (1809)
"Magna opera Domini" in C major for chor and orchestra (1812)
"Miserere nostri" in g minor for choir and orchestra (1805)
"Miserere nostri" in E-flat major for choir and orchestra (1803)
"O altitudo divitiarium" in C major for choir and orchestra (1809)
"O quam bonus et suavis est" in B-flat major for soloists, choir and orchestra
"Populi timente sanctum nomen Domini" in E-flat major choir and orchestra (1778)
"Salve Regina" in D major for choir and orchestra (1815)
"Salve Regina" (on German words) in G major for choir and organ
"Salve Regina" in B-flat major for choir and orchestra
"Salvum fac populum" (1805) - lost -
"Si ambulavero in medio" in g minor for choir and orchestra (1809)
"Sub tuum praesidium" in B-flat major for choir and orchestra (1820)
"Tui sunt coeli" in C major for choir and orchestra
"Tui sunt coeli" in E-flat major for choir and orchestra

Psalms

Beatus vir qui timet Dominum (Psalm 112) in D major for two tenors, choir and orchestra
Confitebor Domine in B-flat major for choir and orchestra
De profundis (Psalm 130) in F minor for choir, bass and organ (1815)
De profundis in G minor for choir and orchestra (1805)
Dixit Dominus (Psalm 110) in G major for choir and orchestra
Lauda Jerusalem Dominum (Psalm 147) in C major for choir and orchestra (1815)
Laudate pueri Dominum (Psalm 113) in G major for choir of six voices and orchestra

Canticles

Magnificat in C major for choir and orchestra (1815)
Magnificat in F major for two-part choir and orchestra (1815)

Litanies

Litania di B.M.V. in F major for soloists, choir and orchestra
Litania pro Sabbato Sancto in B-flat major for choir a cappella (1820)

Hymns

"Coelestis urbs Jerusalem" Hymnus de dedicatione Ecclesiae, in A major for choir and orchestra
"Genitori" in F major for soprano, choir and orchestra
"In te Domine speravi" in E-flat major for two sopranos and bass (1817)
"Tantum ergo" in C major for double choir, two clarinets, four horns, four trumpets (Clarini), timpani, double-bass and organ
"Tantum ergo" in C major for choir, two oboes, two bassoons, four trumpets (Clarini), timpani and organ
"Tantum ergo" in C major for choir, two trumpets (Clarini), timpani and organ
"Tantum ergo" in F major for soprano and strings (1768)
"Te Deum laudamus" in C major for soloists, choir and orchestra (1819)
"Te Deum laudamus" de Incoronazione, in D major for choir and orchestra (1790)
"Te Deum laudamus" in D major for double choir and orchestra (1799) - new version of the "Te Deum" from 1790 -

Introitus

"Avertisti captivitatem Jacob" pro Dominica XXIII. et XXIV. post Pentecostem, in B-flat major for choir, strings and organ
"Beati immaculati" de Virginibus et Martyribus et de Sancto Stephano, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"Concupiscit et deficit" in dedicatione Ecclesia et in Festo Tranfigurationis Domini, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"Dico ergo" pro Festis Beatae Mariae Virginis, in d minor for choir, strings and organ
"Domine exaudi vocem meam" pro Dominica XXII. post Pentecostem, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"Et justitiam tuam" pro Festo Epiphaniae, in d minor for choir, strings and organ
"Et psallare" pro Festo S. Joannis Apost. et S. Joannis Bapt., in B-flat major for choir, strings and organ
"Inductus est Dominus" pro Dominica infra octavem Nativitas Domini et ad secundam missam, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"In civitate" pro Festo Purificationis Mariae et Dominica VIII. post Pentecostem, in C major for choir, strings and organ
"In mandatis ejus" de Confessore et in Festo Sancti Joachim, in g minor for choir, strings and organ
"Jubilate Deo Jacob" pro Dominica in albis, pro Feria II. post Pentecostem et in solemnitate corporis Christi, in d minor for choir, strings and organ
"Jubilate Deo" pro Festo St. Januarii Episcopus et Mart., pro Festo Ascensionis Domini, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"Laetentur insulae" pro Dominica III., IV., V., VI. post Epiphaniam, in F major for choir, strings and organ
"Ne quando taceas" pro Dominica VI. post Pentecostem, in d minor for choir, strings and organ
"Neque celaveris" de Confessore, in B-flat major for choir, strings and organ
"Quam admirabile est nomen tuum" pro Festo Sanctissime Trinitatis, in d minor for choir, strings and organ
"Tu cognovisti" pro Festo Sanctorum Apostolorum, in d minor for choir, strings and organ

Motets and sacred arias and chants

"Audimus Dei verbum" - lost -
"Contra vos, o monstra horrenda" in B-flat major, motet for soprano, choir and orchestra (1769)
"Cor meum conturbatum" in g minor for choir and orchestra
"Ecce enim veritatem" in G major for bass, three violas, double-bass and organ
"Fremat tirannus" in C major, motet for soprano, choir and orchestra (1778)
"Magna est virtus" - lost -
"Misericordius Dominus" in E-flat major, duet for soprano, bass, violine and orchestra
"O mortales, festinate" in B-flat major, aria for soprano, clarinet and orchestra
"Quae est illa" in B-flat major, aria in honorem B.V.M. for soprano, oboe, strings and organ
"Quem terra pontus sidera" in A major for soprano and orchestra
"Salve Jesu pie" duet - lost -
"Tu es spes mea, Domine" for soprano, flute, oboe and orchestra

Instrumental music

Concerti

Concerto for oboe, violin, violoncello and orchestra in D major (1770)
Concerto for organ and orchestra in C major (1773) - second movement lost -
Concerto for piano and orchestra in C major (1773)
Concerto for piano and orchestra in B-flat major (1773)
Concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra in C major (1774)
Concertino da camera for flute or oboe and strings G major (1777)

Symphonies, overtures and variations

Symphonie in D major "Il Giorno onomastico" (1775)
Symphonie in D major "La Veneziana" (built from overtures to "La Scuola de'gelosi" and "La Partenza inaspettata")
Three minuets for orchestra
26 Variations on "La Follia di Spagna" for orchestra (1815)
Allegretto in D major for orchestra
Symphonie (ouverture) in C major - overture to "Habsburg" -
Overture "La Frascatana"
Fragmentary Symphonie (overture) in G major
Fragmentary movement for bassoons and strings

Serenades

Piccola Serenata in B-flat major for 2 oboes, 2 horns and bassoon (1778)
Serenade in B-flat major for 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double-bass
Serenade in C major for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double-bass (alternative version of the serenade in B-flat major for seven instruments)
Serenade in F major for 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 bassoons, 2 horns and double-bass
Cassation in C major for 2 oboes, 2 English horns, 2 bassoons and 2 horns
Three trios in G major, E-flat major and C major for 2 Oboes and bassoon
Armonia per un tempio della notte in E-flat major for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons and 2 horns (ca. 1795)

Marches

11 Marches for orchestra (ca. 1804)
March for wind ensemble "Prägt tief in eure Herzen, Brüder"
"Parademarsch" in C major for wind ensemble
March "Die Landwehr" (1809)
March in honour of Gassmann in C major for orchestra (1820)

Chamber music

4 Scherzi armonici istrumentali for string quartet
Fugue for string quartet (tema H.! b.e.n. Die m. ist ein s. Ma non il testo)
Fugue for three instruments
Fugue in C major for two instruments (1818)
Fugue in E-flat major for two instruments (Tema Kerscorchiano)
6 little pieces for piano
6 pieces for guitar - lost -

Revisions of other composers' works and joint compositions with other composers

"La Betulia liberata" by Florian Leopold Gassmann: abridgements in recitatives and arias, and additional choirs taken from other compositions of Gassmann's (1820)
"Il Talismano": joint composition by Salieri (first act) and Giacomo Rust (second and third act) (1779)
"Iphigénie en Tauride" by Christoph Willibald Gluck: Italian version called "Ifigenia in Tauride" in Lorenzo Da Ponte's translation (1783)
"Per la ricuperata salute di Ofelia" for voice and piano: joint composition by Salieri, Mozart and Cornetti (1785)
"Requiem" by Niccolò Jommelli: additional instrumentation of two oboes, two bassoons and two trombones (for Christoph Willibald Gluck's solemn requiem on April 8, 1788)
"Stabat Mater" in F minor by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: version for soloists, choir and orchestra, instrumentation by Franz Xaver Süssmayr

Notes and References

Web site: Hammerle-Bortolotti . Martino . Salieris weltliche Kantate "Der Tyroler Landsturm" aktueller denn je . Online Merker.