The following is a list of published compositions by the composer

Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...

(1813–1901).

List of operas and revisions

Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes.

Incomplete projects

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Re Lear ' (; Italian for ''King Lear'') is an Italian operatic libretto in four acts written by Antonio Somma for the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It was based on ''King Lear'', "the Shakespeare play with which Verdi struggled for so many year ...

'' (''King Lear''), 1856. Librettist

Antonio Somma Antonio Somma (28 August 1809, Udine – 8 August 1864, Venice) was an Italian playwright who is most well known for writing the libretto of an opera which ultimately became Giuseppe Verdi's ''Un ballo in maschera'' in 1859. While a student, his tr ...

worked with Verdi on completing a libretto for an opera based on Shakespeare's ''

King Lear ''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane an ...

''. This libretto was based on an incomplete one written by librettist

Salvatore Cammarano Salvadore Cammarano (also Salvatore) (born Naples, 19 March 1801 – died Naples 17 July 1852) was a prolific Italian librettist and playwright perhaps best known for writing the text of ''Lucia di Lammermoor'' (1835) for Gaetano Donizetti. For D ...

before he died in 1852. It was never set to music.

Songs

* '' Sei Romanze'' (1838) #''Non t'accostar all'urna'' ( Jacopo Vittorelli) #''More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta'' ( Tommaso Bianchi) #''In solitaria stanza'' (Jacopo Vittorelli) #''Nell'orror di notte oscura'' ( Carlo Angiolini) #''Perduta ho la pace'' (trans. by Luigi Balestra from

Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre director, and critic. His works include plays, poetry, literature, and aesthetic criticism, as well as treat ...

's ''

Faust Faust is the protagonist of a classic German legend based on the historical Johann Georg Faust ( 1480–1540). The erudite Faust is highly successful yet dissatisfied with his life, which leads him to make a pact with the Devil at a crossroads ...

'') #''Deh, pietoso, o addolorata'' (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's ''Faust'') * ''L'esule'' (1839) (

Temistocle Solera Temistocle Solera (25 December 1815 – 21 April 1878) was an Italian opera composer and librettist. Life and career He was born in Ferrara. He received his education at the Imperial College in Vienna and at the University of Pavia. Throughou ...

) * ''La seduzione'' (1839) (Luigi Balestra) * ''Guarda che bianca luna: notturno'' (1839) (Jacopo Vittorelli) for soprano, tenor, bass and flute obbligato * ''Album di Sei Romanze'' (1845) #''Il tramonto'' (

Andrea Maffei Andrea Maffei (1798 – 1885) was an Italian poet, translator and librettist. He was born in Molina di Ledro, Trentino. A follower of Vincenzo Monti, he formed part of the 19th-century Italian classicist literary culture. Gaining laurea in juris ...

) #''La zingara'' (S. Manfredo Maggioni) #''Ad una stella'' (Maffei) #''Lo Spazzacamino'' (

Felice Romani Giuseppe Felice Romani (31 January 178828 January 1865) was an Italian poet and scholar of literature and mythology who wrote many librettos for the opera composers Donizetti and Bellini. Romani was considered the finest Italian librettist betwe ...

) #''Il Mistero'' (Felice Romani) #''Brindisi'' (Maffei) * ''Il poveretto'' (1847) (Maggioni) * ''L'Abandonée'' (1849) ( Escudier) * ''Stornello'' (1869) (anon.) * ''Pietà Signor'' (1894) (Verdi and Boito)

Sacred works

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Messa da Requiem The ''Messa da Requiem'' is a musical setting of the Catholic funeral mass ( Requiem) for four soloists, double choir and orchestra by Giuseppe Verdi. It was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi admired. The first performance, at ...

'' (22 May 1874,

San Marco San Marco is one of the six sestiere (Venice), sestieri of Venice, lying in the heart of the city as the main place of Venice. San Marco also includes the island of San Giorgio Maggiore. Although the district includes Piazza San Marco, Saint ...

, Milan): mass in memory of

Alessandro Manzoni Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (, , ; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet, novelist and philosopher. He is famous for the novel '' The Betrothed'' (orig. it, I promessi sposi) (1827), generally ranked among the maste ...

, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra * '' Libera me'' for ''

Messa per Rossini The Messa per Rossini is a Requiem Mass (music), Mass composed to commemorate the first anniversary of Gioachino Rossini's death. It was a Classical music written in collaboration, collaboration among 13 Italian composers, initiated by Giuseppe Ver ...

'' (1869; premiered posthumously 11 September 1988, Stuttgart). Mass in memory of

Gioachino Rossini Gioachino Antonio Rossini (29 February 1792 – 13 November 1868) was an Italian composer who gained fame for his 39 operas, although he also wrote many songs, some chamber music and piano pieces, and some sacred music. He set new standards f ...

. Verdi wrote the "Libera me", with contributions from twelve other composers. * ''

Pater Noster The Lord's Prayer, also called the Our Father or Pater Noster, is a central Christian prayer which Jesus taught as the way to pray. Two versions of this prayer are recorded in the gospels: a longer form within the Sermon on the Mount in the Gosp ...

'' (1873): for 5-part chorus * ''

Ave Maria The Hail Mary ( la, Ave Maria) is a traditional Christian prayer addressing Mary, the mother of Jesus. The prayer is based on two biblical passages featured in the Gospel of Luke: the Angel Gabriel's visit to Mary (the Annunciation) and Mary's s ...

'' (1880): for soprano and strings * ''

Quattro pezzi sacri The ''Quattro pezzi sacri'' (, ''Four Sacred Pieces'') are choral works by Giuseppe Verdi. Written separately during the last decades of the composer's life and with different origins and purposes, they were nevertheless published together in 18 ...

'' (7 April 1898, Grande Opéra, Paris): #'' Ave Maria (1889)'': for mixed solo voices #'' Stabat Mater (1897)'': for mixed chorus and orchestra #'' Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888)'': for female voices #'' Te Deum (1896)'': for double chorus and orchestra

Other sacred works

* ''Tantum ergo'' in G major (1836) * ''Tantum ergo'' in F major * ''Messa'' in E-flat major * ''Laudate pueri'' in D major * ''Qui tollis'' in F major

Other vocal works (secular)

* '' Suona la tromba'' (1848) (

Goffredo Mameli Goffredo Mameli (; 5 September 1827 – 6 July 1849) was an Italian patriot, poet, writer and a notable figure in the Risorgimento. He is also the author of the lyrics of "Il Canto degli Italiani", the national anthem of Italy. Biography The so ...

), a patriotic hymn * '' Inno delle nazioni'' (1862, London) (

Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito (; 24 February 1842 10 June 1918) (whose original name was Enrico Giuseppe Giovanni Boito and who wrote essays under the anagrammatic pseudonym of Tobia Gorrio) was an Italian poet, journalist, novelist, librettist and composer, best ...

), cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra. (See '' Hymn (or Anthem) of the Nations'')

Instrumental, orchestral, chamber works

Piano * ''Romanza senza parole'' (written 1844, published 1865) * Waltz in F Major (written 1859) * ''Valzer'' (written by Verdi for piano, but not published until 1963 when

Nino Rota Giovanni Rota Rinaldi (; 3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979), better known as Nino Rota (), was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visco ...

adapted it for orchestra in his score for

Luchino Visconti Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, stage director, and screenwriter. A major figure of Italian art and culture in the mid-20th century, Visconti was one of the fat ...

's film ''

The Leopard ''The Leopard'' ( it, Il Gattopardo ) is a novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa that chronicles the changes in Sicilian life and society during the ''Risorgimento''. Published posthumously in 1958 by Feltrinelli, after two rejections by the ...

'') Orchestral * Sinfonia in B-flat major * Sinfonia in C major * ''Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major '' * with Giacomo Mori, ''Canto di Virginia Con Variazioni per Oboe Composte con accomp.to d'Orchestra quintetto'' Chamber * String Quartet in E minor (1873) * ''Stramberia'' for violin and piano

References

Notes Sources *

Budden, Julian Julian Medforth Budden (9 April 1924 in Hoylake, Wirral – 28 February 2007 in Florence, Italy) was a British opera scholar, radio producer and broadcaster. He is particularly known for his three volumes on the operas of Giuseppe Verdi (publish ...

(1984), ''The Operas of Verdi'', Vol. 2. London: Cassell, Ltd., 1984, pp. 360–423 *Budden, Julian (1984), ''The Operas of Verdi'', Vol. 3: From ''Don Carlos'' to ''Falstaff''. London: Cassell. . *Pitou, Spire (1990). ''The Paris Opéra: An Encyclopedia of Operas, Ballets, Composers, and Performers. Growth and Grandeur, 1815–1914''. New York: Greenwood Press. . *Walker, Frank, ''The Man Verdi'', New York: Knopf, 1962; Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982 *Rizzo, Dino, ''Verdi filarmonico e Maestro dei filarmonici bussetani'', Parma, Istituto nazionale di Studi verdiani, 2005, Premio Rotary Club "Giuseppe Verdi" - 6. {{Portal bar, Opera

Verdi Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian composer best known for his operas. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the h ...