List of works by Arthur Napoleão

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Note 1: Works listed by de Frias (1913), but not included into Macedo Cazarré's list (partly because it comprises only piano compositions), are marked [de Frias].
Note 2: It seems that Napoleão used Op. numbers constantly, one Op. per one composition. Though some works were not published. Opp.32 and 36 seem to be messed in de Frias's list; Op.38, if really published for the first time after 1915, may be a substitution for the unpublished lost songs listed by de Frias.

Contents

Works with Opus number

  • Op.1 - Paráfrase sobre a ópera Bohemian Girl (La Zingara) de Balfe (ca.1859; lost?)
  • Op.2 - Andante finale from Lucia di Lammermoor (ca.1862)
  • Op.3 - Grand Caprice de Concert sur l’opera Les Huguenotes de G. Meyerbeer (ca.1862)
  • Op.4
- Souvenir de Porto Rico (ca.1860-61, unpublished, lost?)
- Souvenir de Berlin, Polka-Mazurka (Bote und Bock) [arranged for orchestra? (see below)] - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1855), p.849 (without Op.); Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1857), p.165 (as Op.4)
  • Op.5 - La Perle du bal, Suites des valses (London: Metzler, ca.1862)
  • Op.6
- Grand Galop brillante (Bote und Bock) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1857), p.87
- Fantaisie vénitienne sur Le Carneval de Venise (Schott; Bevilacqua & Narcizo) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1862), p.170
  • Op.7 - Le Ruisseau, Londres-Mazurka élégante (Bote und Bock) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1857), p.56 (Bevilacqua & Narciso, without Op., ca.1857)
  • Op.8 - Brindisi di Lucrezia Borgia (unpublished, lost?)
  • Op.9 - Final de Marco Visconti de Petrella (unpublished, lost?)
  • Op.10 - Toujours (Agora e Sempre), Rêverie [arr. of the same-titled song?] (ca.1862; Lisboa: Costa Mesquita; lost?)
  • Op.11
- Un ballo in maschera de Verdi, Quintet transcription (1865; Porto: Villa Nova; lost?)
- Souvenir de Posen, Mazourka polonaise (Bote und Bock) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1857), p.120
  • Op.12 - Grand Galop de concert (ca.1857-60; Schott; Bevilacqua & Narcizo) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1863), p.40
  • Op.13 - Fantaisie-Caprice sur Un Ballo in Maschera, Opera de G. Verdi (ca.1862-65; Rio de Janeiro: Bevilacqua & Narcizo)
  • Op.14 - Il Trovatore, opera de Verdi, Grande fantaisie (ca.1867-68; Escudier, Narciso)
  • Op.15 - A Fluminense, Grande valsa brilhante (ca.1862-65; Bevilacqua & Narcizo; lost?)
  • Op.16 - Elvira, Linda valsa original (ca.1862-65; Bevilacqua & Narcizo; lost?)
  • Op.17 - A caprichosa, Grande polka de concerto (ca.1862-65; Rio de Janeiro: Bevilacqua & Narcizo)
  • Op.18 - La Traviata, opera de Verdi, Grande fantaisie (ca.1867-68; Narciso)
  • Op.19 - A Brasileira, Grande marcha triumphal (ca.1857-65; Bevilacqua & Narcizo; only incomplete score survived?)
  • Op.20 - 3 Valses de salon (unpublished, lost) - signed lost already in de Frias's list (1913)
  • Op.21 - Le Tourbillon (O turbilhão), Grand galop de concert No.2 (also grande concerto para piano) (Szdow, ca.1860; Bevilacqua & Narcizo, ca.1863-65; Sassetti, 1860s) - pdf pdf (both from later collected editions)
  • Op.22 - Miserere from Il Trovatore, transcribed (Narciso; lost?)
  • Op.23 - Sur les bords du Plata, Morceau de salon (Narciso, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.24 - Atlanta, Souvenir de Maranhão, Caprice de concert (Narciso, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.25 - Louise Miller, opera de Verdi, Grande fantaisie de concerto (Narciso, ca.1867-69, and 2 earlier editions)
  • Op.26 - Faust, Grande Caprice sur la valse (Lisbon: Sassetti, ca.1869)
  • Op.27 - Pensées poetiques [several pieces?] (Narciso, ca.1875-77)
  • Op.28 - L'Africaine, Opera de G. Meyerbeer, Grande fantaisie pour piano avec accompagnement d'orchestre, arr. for piano (piano score with orch keys: Narciso, ca.1864-65)
  • Op.29 - Palácio de Cristal, Marcha, for 2 pianos (ca.1865, unpublished, lost?)
  • Op.30 - Il arco de Sant'Anna (O arco de Sant'Anna), Opera de F. de Sa Noronha, Grande fantaisie de concert (Narciso, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.31 - Feu follet, Mazurka de concert (Lisbon: Sassetti, ca.1864-69; Arthur Napoleão, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.32 - [Les Bavards, Op.36 - de Frias's list (1913)]
  • Op.33 - Barbe bleue, Opera bouffe de Offenbach, Fantaisie de salon (Narciso, ca.1867)
  • Op.34 - La belle Helene de J. Offenbach, Fantaisie de salon sur les motifs de l'opera (Narciso, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.35 - Overture to Remorso vivo, arranged for piano by Alfredo Napoleão (Narciso, ca.1867)
  • Op.36
- Les Bavards, ópera bufa de J. Offenbach, Fantaisie brillante (Narciso, ca.1867)
- Reminiscences of the Faust by Gounod (unpublished; lost?) [from de Frias's list (1913), where Les Bavards is Op.32]
  • Op.37 - Murmures du Taje, Caprice etude de concert (Narciso, ca.1867-69)
  • Op.38
- [Mélodies, for French texts, unpublished; lost? - de Frias's list (1913)]
- Ancienne etude (Arthur Napoleão, ca.1915-25)
  • Op.39 - Overture to Guillaume Tell [piano reduction?] (unpublished; lost?) [from de Frias's list (1913)]
  • Op.40 - Guillaume Tell, Grande fantaisie (Narciso, ca.1868)
  • Op.41 - Hino a caridade, for soprano and barytone solos, chorus and orchestra, written for a fest at Casino Fluminense (unpublished; lost?) [from de Frias's list (1913)]
  • Op.42 - Números diversas de missa [Different mass parts] (unpublished; lost?) [from de Frias's list (1913)]
  • Op.43 - Douze etudes artistiques (Narciso, ca.1870; only Nos. 6-7 survived?)
6. Mouvement perpetuel
7. Souvenir
  • Op.44 - Ela dorme, melodia para canto [from de Frias's list (1913), lacks publisher, though not marked as unpublished, hence should be Narciso]
  • Op.45 - Echos do passado, Album de romances No. 1 (Narciso, Arthur Napoleão & Miguez)
  1. Basta uma vez, text by Gonçalves Dias (Arthur Napoleão)
  2. Agora e sempre, text by Gonçalves Dias (Narciso, Arthur Napoleão & Miguez)
  3. Se tu me amasses
  4. Lua da estiva noite
  5. Teu sorriso
  6. Miragem
  • Op.46 - Dis-moi, Morceau de salon (Narciso, Choudens, ca.1870)
  • Op.47 - Teus olhos, Polka (Narciso, ca.1866-69)
  • Teus lindos olhos : Polka brilhante, for piano 4-hands - pdf
  • Op.48 - Recordações de Petropolis, Polka (Narciso, ca.1869-75)
  • Arranged for piano 4-hands by Lucien Lambert (Narciso, ca.1882-89)
  • Op.49 - A Carinhosa, Polka (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1877)
  • Op.50 - Grande fantaisie de concert sur les motifs de l'Opéra Il Guarany del maestro Carlos Gomes (Narciso, ca.1870)
  • Version for 2 pianos (Lucca, Narciso, ca.1870; lost?)
  • Op.51 - Les Jongleurs, caprice etude de genre (Narciso & Arthur Napoleao, ca.1869-75) / caprice brésilien (Enoch) / (Sampaio Araujo, ca.1910)
  • Op.52 - Abertura de concerto (Ouverture de concert), para grande orchestra (ms) [from de Frias's list (1913)]; arranged by the composer for piano 4-hands (ms)
  • Op.53 - Polonaise de concert (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1878)
  • Op.54 - Rêve de bonheur (Sogno d'amore), Capriccio-mazurka (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão, ca.1877-80)
  • Op.55 - Il Sogno, Romanza pour soprano, poesia de xxx (Choudens, ca.1883) [from de Frias's list (1913)]
  • Op.56 - Grand scherzo (Choudens, Lucca, ca.1877-80)
  • Op.57 - La Charmeuse, Caprice impromptu (Narciso & Arthur Napoleao, ca.1880)
  • Op.58 - Ricordo de Nápoles (Souvenir de Napoles), Balada (Lucca; revised edition Arthur Napoleao, ca.1880; lost?)
  • Op.59 - Soirées intimes, 1er. album [Suite No.1] (Hamelle, ca.1885)
  1. Ma pensée, Melodia
  2. Pressentiment, Nocturne
  3. Tarentelle
  4. Confidence
  5. Rêverie
  6. Menuet
  7. Aveu, Nocturne
  8. Marche de nuit
  9. Tendresse
  10. Mazurka
  11. Barcarolle
  12. Légende
  • Op.60 - Souvenir de jeunesse, Pensée poétique (Choudens, Arthur Napoleao, ca.1878)
  • Op.61 - A Camões. Marcha heroica para grande orchestra e banda, arrangement for piano 4-hands (Narciso, Arthur Napoleão & Miguez; reprinted Rio de Janeiro: Biblioteca Nacional, 1980) - "Expressamente escripta para o grande festival do terceiro centenario de Luiz de Camoes, e executada em 10 de junho de 1880 no Imperial Theatro D. Pedro 2o. do Rio de Janeiro."
  • Op.62 - Suite d'orchestre, for Marquês de Pombal's fests, arranged for piano 4-hands (Choudens; lost?) = (?) Morceau a 4 mains (ms)
  • Op.63 - Ballade romantique, for piano 4-hands (Choudens, ca.1885)
  • Op.64 - Les Étincelles, Impromptu-Scherzo (Choudens, 1883; Arthur Napoleao, ca.1893) (Publication noted in the Bibliographie de la France 2e série, 72e année, Nº 27, 7 Juillet 1883, p.425, r.2765.)
  • Op.65 - Formosa, Valse de concert (Choudens, 1883 [from de Frias's list (1913)]; Arthur Napoleao, plate 7104, ca.1913-15) (Publication noted in the Bibliographie de la France 2e série, 72e année, Nº 27, 7 Juillet 1883,p.425, r.2764.)
  • Op.66 - Ricordati, romance variée (Choudens, 1885)
  • Op.67 - Soireés de Rio, Suite de morceaux No.2 (Narciso et Arthur Napoleão, Choudens, ca.1886-7)
  1. Chant d'adieu
  2. Une fleur
  3. Gavotte impériale - pdf
  4. Nocturne dramatique
  5. Tarentelle
  6. Le [sic] Rêve
  7. Héroïde
  8. Berceuse
  9. La fougère, Caprice
  • Op.68 - Idéale, Caprice-valse
  • muito vulgarizada (Hamelle, Arthur Napoleão, ca.1869-75)
  • Op.69
- Recordações de Fafe (Souvenir de Fafe), capricho caracteristico (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão, ca.1882-89)
- Nuit à Séville, sérénade (Choudens, 1891)
  • Op.70 - Fantaisie mélancolique (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão; Choudens, 1887)
  • Op.71 - Romance et Habanera (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão; Choudens, ca.1893-1913)
  1. Romance- Adieu, je pars! (an easier version published ca.1913-15; arrangements: for voice and piano, text by Rose Méryss, ca.1914; for violin and piano; for cello and piano, ca.1914)
  2. Habanera
  • Op.72 - Lo Schiavo, Opera de Carlos Gomes, Transcription (Arthur Napoleão, ca.1889)
  • Op.73 - Estrela Chilena, Valse for piano 4-hands (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1880-93)
  • Op.74 - Rêveuse, Valse mélodique (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1893-1913)
  • Op.75 - Enchantment, Valse-Impromptu (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1893-1913) - See [1]
  • Op.76 - Hino da Lavoura e Comércio, for piano solo? (Arthur Napoleao; lost?)
  • Op.77 -
  • Op.78 - Les Sylphes, dois trechos (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1890)
  1. Fragment de ballet (lost?)
  2. Caprice féerique
  • Op.79
- Sinfonia de Leopoldo Miguez, piano reduction (unpublished, lost?)
- Tarantella, for 2 pianos (ms)
  • Op.80 - Hino Espírito Santo (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1910)
  • Op.81 - Hino do Acre (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1910; lost?)
  • Op.82 -
  • Op.83 - Les Bersagliers à Naples, Tarentelle, for 2 pianos (Vieira Machado, ca.1911-25)
  • Op.84 - 84 [?] Nouvelles etudes Cramer-Napoleão, for 2 pianos or piano solo (Bosworth, 1912)
  • Op.85 -
  • Op.86 -
  • Op.87 - 6 Valses humoristiques, SN7.4, by Alberto Nepomuceno, arrangement for 2 pianos (ca.1903)
  • Op.88 - Sérénade de Ch. Sinding, Op.33, variée (Vieira Machado, ca.1908)
  • Op.89 - Nouveau Caprice de Concert sur la «Valse de Faust» de Gounod (Vieira Machado, ca.1910)
  • Op.90 - 18 Études pour virtuoses (Schott, 1910; Arthur Napoleao, ca.1913-15)

Works without or with unknown Opus numbers

For piano solo

  • Recordações do Palacio de Cristal, Galope (Bevilacqua & Narciso, ca.1855 and 1857) - performed in 1855 - pdf
  • A Amazona, Grande valsa (Bevilacqua & Narcizo, ca.1857; lost?)
  • St. Germans-Polka (Dublin: Mackintosh, ca.1854; Bote und Bock) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1855), p.775
  • Valse mignone, en trois tons, sans diezes ni bemols (ms)
  • Toccata-Sphinge (Bevilacqua, [1904] - Renascença: supplemento musical. N. 5.)
  • Sphynge No.2, Sonatina (Bevilacqua, [1905] - Renascença: supplemento musical. N. 16)
  • Ao caro amigo João do Rego Barros, Fragment de ballet, à la schottisch (Bevilacqua, 1904-12-15, in Renascença)
  • Uma primeira impressão do Brasil, Polca-mazurka (Arthur Napoleao, republished ca.1890; lost?)
  • Capricho sobre o Hino Nacional Brasileiro (Bevilacqua, republished ca.1913)
  • Cadenza for Liszt's Rhapsody No.2 (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1915-25)

Songs

  • "Quando ti guardo in volto", Romanzetta (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão) - definetly has an Op. Must be one of the 'empty' ones (77, 82, 85, 86).

Orchestral

  • L'olandese volante, grand opera-ballo in 4 atti. Atto 2. Scena, duetto ed aria - for [soli?], chorus and orchestra (ms)
  • O remorso vivo, melodrama phantastico de grande espectaculo em um prologo e quadro actos, por Furtado Coelho e Joaquim Serra, musica de Arthur Napoleão (ca.1876)
  • N. 4: Scena e coro "Mais limpida, mais bella" - for voice and piano (Narciso & Arthur Napoleão)
  • Polka-Mazurka for orchestra [arranged from Op.4?] (Bote und Bock) - Hofmeister's Monatsbericht (1855), p.840
  • Brasiliana, morceau commémoratif du 4ve. Centenaire de la Découverte du Brésil, pour grand orchestre (ms); arrangement for piano 4-hands by the composer (ms)

Hymns

  • Hymno de S. A. o Senhor Conde D'Eu, for solo, female chorus and piano (Narcizo, Arthur Napoleão e Ca.) - pdf
  • Hymno do Alto Juruá (Arthur Napoleão)
  • Hymno Espirito Santense, original orchestration (ms) - same as Op.80?

Chamber

  • Fantasy on motifs from Il Trovatore for 4 pianos (ca.1862; lost?)
  • Fantasy on motifs from La Traviata for 4 pianos (ca.1863; lost?)
  • Fantasy on motifs from La Favorita for 4 pianos (ca.1865, ms)

Arrangements of works by other composers

  • 1re Mazurka mélodique pour piano et violon par A. Camarate, op. 7. Transcription pour piano, par Arthur Napoléon (Hamelle, ca. 1892)
  • Andante de la Symphonie Romantique Nuit des Tropiques de Gottschalk, arranged for piano (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1869-75)
  • Célébre Tarantelle pour piano et orchestre par L. M. Gottschalk (Ouvre posthume), arranged for piano solo (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1869)
  • Ojos Criolos de Gottschalk, arranged for piano 4-hands (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1869; lost?)
  • Grande marcha solene de Gottschalk, arr. for piano solo (Arthur Napoleao, ca.1870; lost?)
  • Ses Yeux, Polka de Concert, Op.66 de Gottschalk para 2 pianos, arr. for piano solo (Schott, ca.1869)
  • Variations de concert sur l’hymne portugais by Louis Moreau Gottschalk, arr. for piano solo (Arthur Napoleao, 1869; Schott, ca.1881)
  • A Coroa de Carlos Magno – Bailado das quatro nações de H. Alves de Mesquita, arranged for piano 4-hands (Narciso & Napoleao, ca.1869; lost?)
  • Sérénade de Widor, arr. for piano 4-hands (Arthur Napoleao; lost?)