List of compositions by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

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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 extant works of uncertain authorship.

Contents 1 Works 1.1 Operas, cantatas 1.2 Masses 1.3 Other sacred 1.4 Solo violin and continuo 1.5 Chamber ensemble 1.6 Doubtful 2 Editions

Works

Operas, cantatas

• Applausi festivi di Giove, cantata (Salzburg, 1687), only libretto survives
• Li trofei della fede cattolica, cantata (Salzburg, 1687), only libretto survives
• Alessandro in Pietra, opera (libretto F.M. Raffaelini, produced 1689), lost
• C 51, Chi la dura la vince, opera (libretto Raffaelini, produced ?1690–92)
• Trattenimento musicale del'ossequio di Salisburgo, cantata (Salzburg, 1699), only libretto survives
• 15 school dramas (Salzburg, 1679–99), all lost

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 minore (i.e. in F minor), 5 solo vv, 5vv, str, 3trb, continuo, after 1692 [Edition hosted at CPDL]

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, 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, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo part missing, 1673
• C 53, Arien à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, 1673–74
• C 54, Ballettæ à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo (only viola parts extant), circa 1680
• C 55, Ballettæ à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo part missing, 1685
• C 56, Balletti à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo part missing, 1673–74
• C 57, Balletti à 6, 2tpt, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, circa 1690
• C 58, Baletti, 2vln, 2vla, vle, continuo part missing, 1670–74
• C 59, Balletti lamentabili à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, 1670
• C 60, Balletto, vln, 3vla, vle, continuo part missing, 1673
• C 61, Battalia, 3vln, 4vla, 2vle, continuo, 1673
• C 78–89, Fidicinium sacro-profanum, 1–2vln, 2vla, continuo (Nuremberg, 1683)
• C 62–68, Harmonia articiciosa-ariosa: diversi mode accordata, 1–2vln, vla, 2vla d'amore, continuo, 1696 (Nuremberg, 1712)
• C 69–74, Mensa sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo (Salzburg, 1680)
• C 75, Serenada à 5, 2vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, 1673
• C 109, Sonata à 6, tpt, 2vln, 2vla, vle, organ, circa 1673
• C 110, Sonata à 6 die pauern-Kirchfarth genandt, solo vln, 2vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, circa 1673
• C 111, Sonata à 7, 6tpt, timp, continuo, 1668
• C 112, Sonata pro tabula à 10, 5rec, 2vln, 2vla, continuo, after 1670
• C 113, Sonata S[ancti] Polycarpi à 9, 8tpt, timp, vle, continuo, 1673
• C 114–137, Sonatæ, tam aris, quam aulis servientes, 5–8 instruments (Salzburg, 1676)
• C 76, Trombet undt musicalischer Taffeldienst à 4, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo, 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. Guido Adler, 1905

Band 49, Missa S Henrici, 1918

Band 59, Requiem in f, 1923

Band 92, Harmonia artificiosa-ariosa: diversi mode accordata, 1956

Band 96, Mensa sonora, seu Musica instrumentalis, 1960

Band 97, Fidicinium sacro-profanum, 1960

Band 106/107, Sonatæ tam aris quam aulis servientes, 1963

Band 127, Ensemble music, 1976

2 Arien

Balletti, 2vln, 2vla, vle

3 Balletti, vln, 2vla, vle

Balletti lamentabili

Sonata, solo vln, continuo

Sonata violino solo representativa

Trombet undt musicalischer Taffeldienst

Band 151, Ensemble music, 1997

Ballettæ ad duos choros (doubtful)

Balletti, 2tpt, vln, 2vla, vle, continuo

Battalia

Ciacona (doubtful)

Sonata, 6tpt, timp, continuo

Sonata, tpt, 2vln, 2vla, vle, organ

Sonata die pauern Kirchfartt genandt

Sonata pro tabula

Sonata S Polycarpi

Band 153, 15 Mystery (Rosary) Sonatas and Passacaglia (new edition)

Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg

Band 5, Missa ex Bb, Munich, 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

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.