title: List of compositions by Tomaso Albinoni
text: # 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
  