List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni
# List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni

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

## Vocal music

### Operas

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.

| 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 | 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

* (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)

### Serenate

* 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

* 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

* 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

### With opus numbers

* 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

**Sinfonias**

* 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**

* 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**

* 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
