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Category:Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von.
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C and C App.: respectively referring to the Catalog of Heinrich Biber’s Works and Appendix to Catalog, in The Church Music of Heinrich Biber, Eric Thomas Chafe (UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, MI, 1987), pp. 233–264. The appendix consists of lost works and extant works of uncertain authorship.
Works
Operas, cantatas
- Applausi festivi di Giove, cantata (Salzburg, 1687), only libretto survives
- Li trofei della fede cattolica, cantata (Salzburg, 1687), only libretto survives
- C App. 20, Alesandro in Pietra, opera (libretto F.M. Raffaelini, produced 1689), lost
- C App. 31, Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo, cantata (Salzburg, 1699), only libretto survives
- 15 school dramas (Salzburg, 1679–99), all lost (numbered 21–30 and 32–36 in C App.)
Masses
- C 1, Missa Alleluia à 26, 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, after 1690
- C App. 100, Missa Bruxellensis à 23, 4 solo vv, 4vv, orch, after 1696
- C 2 Missa catholica, 4 solo vv, 4 vv, orch – incomplete
- C 3, Missa Christi resurgentis à 20, 9vv, orch, circa 1674
- C 4, Missa ex B[♭], 6vv, continuo
- C 5, Missa quadragesimalis (Missa in contrapuncto), 4vv, continuo
- C App. 101, Missa Salisburgensis à 54, 16vv, orch, 1682
- C 6, Missa S Henrici à 19, 5 solo vv, 5vv, orch, 1697
- C 7, Requiem in A à 15, 6 solo vv, 6vv, orch, after 1690
- C 8, Requiem ex F con terza min[ore] à 14 (i.e. in F minor), 5 solo vv, 5vv, str, 3trb, continuo, after 1692
Other sacred
- C 43, In Festo Trium Regium, Muttetum Natale, 2 solo vv, 2rec, 2ob, org
- C 9, Lætatus sum, B, B, str, orch, 1676
- C 44, Litaniæ de S Josepho, 8 solo vv, 8vv, 2tpt, 3trb, str, continuo, after 1690
- C 45, Lux perpetua, 8 solo vv, 8vv, str, 3trb, organ, circa 1673
- C 47, Ne cedite, 5 solo vv, 5vv, str, 3trb, organ, after 1690
- C 10, Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, B, vln, vle, organ, circa 1700
- C 46, Offertorium, Huc poenitentes, 5 solo vv, SSATB chorus, str, 3trb ad lib, 3org, circa 1700
- C 47, Offertorium, Ne cedite, 5 solo vv, SSATB chorus, str, 3trb, 4org, after 1690
- C 48, Offertorium in Festo 7 dolorum, Quo abiit dilectus tuus, 4 solo vv, SATB chorus, str, 4org
- C App. 106, Plaudite tympana à 54, 16vv, orch, 1682
- C 49, Salve regina, S, viola da gamba, organ, 1663
- C 50, Stabat mater, SATB chorus, continuo
- C 13–42, Vesperæ longiores ac breviores una cum litaniis Lauretanis, 4 solo vv, 4vv, str, 2trb, organ (Salzburg, 1693)
- C 11 & 12, Vespers à 32, 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, 1674
Solo violin and continuo
- C 77 Fantasia
- C 90–105, Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas, 15 Sonatas, and Passacaglia for solo violin, ?1674
- C 106, Pastorella
- C 107, Sonata in C minor
- C 108, Sonata in E major
- C 146, Sonata violino solo representativa (Representatio Avium), circa 1669
- C 147, Sonata violino solo in A major, after 1670
- C 138–145, Sonatæ violino solo, 8 sonatas (Nuremberg, 1681)
Chamber ensemble
- C 52, Arien à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, continuo part missing, 1673
- C 53, Arien à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, bc, 1673–74
- C 54, Ballettæ à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, bc (only viola parts extant), circa 1680
- C 55, Ballettæ à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, continuo part missing, 1685
- C 56, Balletti à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, continuo part missing, 1673–74
- C 57, Balletti à 6, 2tpt, vn, 2va, vlne, bc, circa 1690
- C 58, Baletti, 2vn, 2va, vlne, continuo part missing, 1670–74
- C 59, Balletti lamentabili à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, bc, 1670
- C 60, Balletto, vn, 3va, vlne, continuo part missing, 1673
- C 61, Battalia, 3vn, 4va, 2vlne, bc, 1673
- C 78–89, Fidicinium sacro-profanum, 1–2vn, 2va, bc (Nuremberg, 1683)
- C 62–68, Harmonia articiciosa-ariosa: diversi mode accordata, 1–2vn, va, 2 viola d’amore, vlne, bc, 1696 (Nuremberg, 1712)
- C 69–74, Mensa sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, vn, 2va, vlne, bc (Salzburg, 1680)
- C 75, Serenada à 5, 2vn, 2va, vlne, bc, 1673
- C 109, Sonata à 6, tpt, 2vn, 2va, vlne, org, circa 1673
- C 110, Sonata à 6 die pauern-Kirchfarth genandt, solo vn, 2vn, 2va, vlne, bc, circa 1673
- C 111, Sonata à 7, 6tpt, timp, bc, 1668
- C 112, Sonata pro tabula à 10, 5rec, 2vn, 2va, bc, after 1670
- C 113, Sonata S[ancti] Polycarpi à 9, 8tpt, timp, vlne, bc, 1673
- C 114–137, Sonatæ, tam aris, quam aulis servientes, 2, 5–8 instruments (Salzburg, 1676)
- C 76, Trombet undt musicalischer Taffeldienst à 4, vn, 2va, vlne, bc, circa 1673–74
About 100 works are known to be lost.
Doubtful
- Ballettæ ad duos choros, 2vln, 2vla, vle, continuo
- Balletti, Ciacona for solo vln, continuo
Editions
Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich
Vienna: Österreichischer Bundesverlag
- Band 11, 8 Sonatæ violino solo, ed. Guido Adler, 1898
- Band 20, Missa Salisburgensis and Plaudite tympana (attributed to Orazio Benevoli), ed. Guido Adler, 1903
- Band 25, 15 Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and Passacaglia, ed. Erwin Luntz, 1905
- Band 49, Missa S Henrici, ed. Guido Adler, 1918
- Band 59, Requiem in f, ed. Guido Adler, 1923
- Band 92, Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa: diversi mode accordata, ed. Paul Nettl and Friedrich Reidinger, 1956
- Band 96, Mensa sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, ed. Erich Schenk, 1960
- Band 97, Fidicinium sacro-profanum, ed. Erich Schenk, 1960
- Band 106/107, Sonatæ tam aris quam aulis servientes, ed. Erich Schenk, 1963
- Band 127, Ensemble music, ed. Jiří Sehnal, 1976
- C 52, C 53, 2 Arien à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo
- C 54–58, C 60, Balletti
- C 59, Balletti lamentabili à 4
- C 75, Serenada à 5
- C 147, Sonata, solo vln, continuo
- C 146, Sonata violino solo representativa
- C 76, Trombet undt musicalischer Taffeldienst
- Band 151, Ensemble music, ed. Jiří Sehnal, 1997
- C 110,Sonata à 6 „die pauern Kirchfartt genandt”, 3vln, 2 vla, vle, continuo, pp. 1–10
- C 109, Sonata à 6, tpt, 2vln, 2vla, vle, organ, pp. 11–25
- C 57, Balletti à 6, 2tpt, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, pp. 26–44
- C 111, Sonata à 7, 6tpt, timp, continuo, pp. 45–52
- C 113, Sonata S. Polycarpi à 9, 8tpt, timp, pp. 53–68
- C 112, Sonata pro Tabula à 10, 5fl, 2vln, 2vla, vle, organ, pp. 69–78
- C 61, Battalia, 3vln, 4 vla, 2vle, continuo, pp. 79–94
- Ballettae (doubtful), 2vln, 2vla, 2bassi, continuo, pp. 95–106
- Ciacona Violino Solo (doubtful), vln, [continuo], p. 107
- Band 153, 15 Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and Passacaglia, ed. Jiří Sehnal (new edition)
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg
- Band 5, Missa ex B♭, Bad Reichenhall, 1987
- Band 9, Litaniæ de S Josepho, Balletti for solo vln, continuo, Salzburg, 1999
- Band 11, Lætatus sum, Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum, Salzburg, 1999
- Faksimileausgaben Band 1, 15 Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and Passacaglia, Bad Reichenhall, 1990
- Faksimileausgaben Band 3, 8 Sonatæ violino solo, Bad Reichenhall, 1991
- Faksimileausgaben Band 5, Sonata violino solo representativa, Salzburg, 1994
- Faksimileausgaben Band 8, Battalia, Salzburg, 1999
Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era
- Volume B 107, Missa Christi resurgentis, ed. James Clements, AR-Editions, Madison WI, 2000
Other
- Missa Alleluia à 26 in Concerto, ed. Werner Jaksch, Bad Königshofen, 1994
- Requiem à 15, ed. Werner Jaksch
Facsimiles of the Missa Salisburgensis and Missa Bruxellensis were published in the collected edition of Orazio Benevoli, before the identification by Ernst Hintermaier that these works could only have been composed by Heinrich Biber.
