List of compositions by Simon Mayr

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This is a selective list of the works of the German composer Simon Mayr (1763–1845) who is credited with a total of some 600 compositions, including 70 operas.

Operas[edit]

See List of operas by Simon Mayr

Other secular vocal music[edit]

Cantatas[edit]

  • Femio, ossia La musica custode della fede maritale, cantata for three voices and orchestra, text by Francesco Boaretti, Venice, 1791
  • Ero, cantata for voice and orchestra, text by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1793
  • Temira e Ariostoo, cantata for four voices and orchestra, Venice, 1795
  • Apelle e Campase, Venice, 1795 (lost)
  • Le sventure di Leandro, cantata for one voice, chorus and orchestra, text by Comtesse Velo, Vicenza, 1797
  • Traiano all'Eufrate, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Angelo Anelli, Milan, 1807
  • Alcide al bivio, cantata for voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809
  • Cantata per la morte di Haydn, cantata for tenor, voices and orchestra, Bergamo, 1809
  • Cantata per le nozze di Napoleone con Maria Luisa d'Austria, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Comte Carrara-Spinelli, Bergamo, 1810
  • Ferramondo, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Comte Carrara-Spinelli, Bergamo, 1810
  • Cantata per la nascita del re di Roma, cantata for three voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1811
  • Numa Pompilio, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Muletti, Bergamo, 1811
  • Cantata per la nascita del re di Roma, cantata for soprano, harp and orchestra, Bergamo, 1811
  • Arianna in Nasso, cantata for one voice and orchestra, Naples, 1815
  • Egeria, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, text by C. Arici, Brescia, 1816
  • Annibale, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
  • Lo spavento, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
  • La tempesta, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
  • Le feste d'Ercole, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1816
  • L'armonia, Bergamo, 1816
  • Il sogno di Partenope, melodramma allegorico, text by Urbano Lampredi, Naples, 1817
  • Arianna e Bacco, cantata for voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1817
  • Cantata per la morte di Antonio Capuzzi, cantata for 2 voices, chorus and orchestra, text by Muletti, Bergamo, 1818
  • Inno a Pallade, text by Vincenzo Monti, Milan, 1820 (lost)
  • Piccola cantata, cantata for 3 voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1822
  • Innalzamento al trono del giovane re Gioas, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass and orchestra, 1822
  • La vita campestre, cantata for tenor and orchestra, Bergamo, 1823
  • L'autunno, 1824
  • L'armonia, dramatic cantata, Bergamo, Teatro Ricciardi, 1825
  • Cantata per la morte di Beethoven, cantata for soprano, tenor, bass, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1827
  • Schiera di fausti eventi, cantata for 4 voices, chorus and orchestra, Bergamo, 1838

Additionally, there were five other cantatas for several soloists, plus 31 cantatas for a single voice.

Other vocal music[edit]

  • 40 chansons, mélodies, arias
    • 12 Lieder (1786, Regensburg)
    • 12 ballades vénitiennes (1797, London)
    • 6 canzonette et duettini (Vienna)
    • Canzoni in Italian and German

Church music[edit]

Oratorios and sacred dramas[edit]

  • Iacob a Labano fugiens, oratorio in Latin, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1791
  • Sisara, oratorio in Latin, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1793
  • Tobia, o Tobiae matrimonium, oratorio in Latin, Venice, 1794
  • La Passione, oratorio in Italian, Forlì, 1794
  • David in spelunca Engaddi, oratorio in Latin and Italian, for 5 female soloists, chorus and orchestra, libretto by Giuseppe Foppa, Venice, 1795
  • Il sagrifizio di Jefte, oratorio in Italian, Forlì, 1795 [Naxos CD 8.572719-20]
  • Il ritorno di Jefte, o Il voto incauto, oratorio in Italian, libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, Rome, 1814 (lost)
  • Gioas salvato, oratorio in Italian, Palermo, 1816-17 (lost)
  • Ifigenia in Tauride, azione sacra drammatica per musica in forma scenica, after Apostolo Zeno, Florence, 1817 (lost)
  • Samuele, oratorio in two parts in Italian, libretto by Bartolomeo Merelli, Bergamo, 1821
  • Atalia, dramma sacro per musica con apparato scenico, libretto by Felice Romani, Naples, 1822
  • San Luigi Gonzaga, oratorio in Italian, libretto by P. Cominazzi, Bergamo, 1822

Other religious music[edit]

  • 18 masses, including:
    • Mass in C minor for soloists, chorus and orchestra, 1826
  • 7 requiems, including:
    • Grande Messa da Requiem, 1815
  • 43 hymns
  • 14 antiphons
  • 29 compositions for Holy Week
  • 13 motets

Instrumental music[edit]

Symphonic music[edit]

  • 57 symphonies
  • 2 symphony concertantes
  • 2 concertos for pianoforte
  • 2 ballets
  • 3 intermezzi
  • 3 marches

Chamber music[edit]

  • 3 sonatas for pianoforte and other instruments
  • 8 sonatas à 6 for wind instruments
  • 13 septets for wind instruments
  • 3 octets wind instruments
  • 2 septets for strings and wind instruments
  • Quintet for strings

Keyboard works[edit]

  • 4 sonatas
  • 10 symphonies
  • 58 études
  • 10 divertimenti
  • Sonata for organ
  • 2 symphonies for organ

References[edit]

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