List of compositions by Simon Mayr explained

This is a selective list of the works of the German composer Simon Mayr (1763–1845) who is credited with a total of some 600 compositions, including 70 operas.

Operas

See List of operas by Simon Mayr

Other secular vocal music

Cantatas

• Femio, ossia La musica custode della fede maritale, cantata for three voices and orchestra, text by Francesco Boaretti, Venice, 1791
• Ero, cantata for voice and orchestra, text by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1793
• Temira e Ariostoo, cantata for four voices and orchestra, Venice, 1795
• Apelle e Campase, Venice, 1795 (lost)
• Le sventure di Leandro, cantata for one voice, chorus and orchestra, text by Comtesse Velo, Vicenza, 1797
• Traiano all'Eufrate, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Angelo Anelli, Milan, 1807
• Alcide al bivio, cantata for voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809
• Cantata per la morte di Haydn, cantata for tenor, voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809
• Cantata per le nozze di Napoleone con Maria Luisa d'Austria, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Comte Carrara-Spinelli, Bergamo, 1810
• Ferramondo, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Comte Carrara-Spinelli, Bergamo, 1810
• Cantata per la nascita del re di Roma, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1811
• Numa Pompilio, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Muletti, Bergamo, 1811
• Cantata per la nascita del re di Roma, cantata for soprano, harp and orchestra, Bergamo, 1811
• Arianna in Nasso, cantata for one voice and orchestra, Naples, 1815
• Egeria, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by C. Arici, Brescia, 1816
• Annibale, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
• Lo spavento, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
• La tempesta, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
• Le feste d'Ercole, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
• L'armonia, Bergamo, 1816
• Il sogno di Partenope, melodramma allegorico, text by Urbano Lampredi, Naples, 1817
• Arianna e Bacco, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1817
• Cantata per la morte di Antonio Capuzzi, cantata for 2 voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Muletti, Bergamo, 1818
• Inno a Pallade, text by Vincenzo Monti, Milan, 1820 (lost)
• Piccola cantata, cantata for 3 voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1822
• Innalzamento al trono del giovane re Gioas, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra, 1822
• La vita campestre, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1823
• L'autunno, 1824
• L'armonia, dramatic cantata, Bergamo, Teatro Ricciardi, 1825
• Cantata per la morte di Beethoven, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1827
• Schiera di fausti eventi, cantata for 4 voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1838

Additionally, there were five other cantatas for several soloists, plus 31 cantatas for a single voice.

Other vocal music

• 40 chansons, mélodies, arias
  • 12 Lieder (1786, Regensburg)
  • 12 ballades vénitiennes (1797, London)
  • 6 canzonette et duettini (Vienna)
  • Canzoni in Italian and German

Church music

Oratorios and sacred dramas

• Iacob a Labano fugiens, oratorio in Latin, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1791
• Sisara, oratorio in Latin, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1793
• Tobia, o Tobiae matrimonium, oratorio in Latin, Venice, 1794
• La Passione, oratorio in Italian, Forlì, 1794
• David in spelunca Engaddi, oratorio in Latin and Italian, for 5 female soloists, chorus and orchestra, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1795
• Il sagrifizio di Jefte, oratorio in Italian, Forlì, 1795 [Naxos CD 8.572719-20]
• Il ritorno di Jefte, o Il voto incauto, oratorio in Italian, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, Rome, 1814 (lost)
• Gioas salvato, oratorio in Italian, Palermo, 1816-17 (lost)
• Ifigenia in Tauride, azione sacra drammatica per musica in forma scenica, after Apostolo Zeno, Florence, 1817 (lost)
• Samuele, oratorio in two parts in Italian, libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli, Bergamo, 1821
• Atalia, dramma sacro per musica con apparato scenico, libretto by Felice Romani, Naples, 1822
• San Luigi Gonzaga, oratorio in Italian, libretto by P. Cominazzi, Bergamo, 1822

Other religious music

• 18 masses, including:
  • Mass in C minor for soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1826
• 7 requiems, including:
  • Grande Messa da Requiem, 1815
• 43 hymns
• 14 antiphons
• 29 compositions for Holy Week
• 13 motets

Instrumental music

Symphonic music

• 57 symphonies
• 2 symphony concertantes
• 2 concertos for pianoforte
• 2 ballets
• 3 intermezzi
• 3 marches

Chamber music

• 3 sonatas for pianoforte and other instruments
• 8 sonatas à 6 for wind instruments
• 13 septets for wind instruments
• 3 octets wind instruments
• 2 septets for strings and wind instruments
• Quintet for strings

Keyboard works

• 4 sonatas
• 10 symphonies
• 58 études
• 10 divertimenti
• Sonata for organ
• 2 symphonies for organ

References

• Most of the information in this article is taken from the related French Wikipedia article.