This section of the site will eventually list the known pieces by Legrenzi which were not published either during his lifetime or posthumously by Giovanni Varischino, starting with operas and oratorios. The listings give title, librettist, date and place of performance(s), location of score(s), location of libretto(s) [pardon the grammar!], and additional information.
Operas
Nino il giusto
? Bentivoglio
No musical source known
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1662
No libretto source known
L'Achille in Sciro
? Bentivoglio
No musical source known
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1663
Libretto: I-Bc 2677
Venice, Teatro S. Salvatore, 1664
Libretti: US-Wc Schatz 5532 (dated 1663) and
11720 (dated 1664); I-Bc 5713 (1664)
Bologna, Teatro Formigliari, 1673
Zenobia e Radamisto
? Bentivoglio
Score: I-Nc, Rari 6.5.10
Ferrara, Teatro S. Stefano, 1665
Libretto: I-Bc 2678
Brescia, Teatro degli Erranti, 1666
Libretto: I-Bc 7396
Macerata, Teatro di Macerata, 1690
Tiridate
(1668)
Eteocle e Polinice †
Tebaldo Fattorini
1674
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. 647
"Consacrata Alle Nobilissime Dame di Venetia"
La divisione del mondo †
G. C. Corradi
4th February 1675
The complete text is available here.
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 24(3)
Adone in Cipro ‡
Giovanni Matteo Giannini
1675
Venice: Teatro Vendramino di S. Salvatore
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. 776
Germanico sul Reno †
G. C. Corradi
January 1676
The complete text is available here.
Totila †
Matteo Noris
1677
Teatro Grimano di SS. Gio: e Paola
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 22(1)
Il Creso ‡
G. C. Corradi
1681
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 24(2)
Pausania
1681
Antioco il grande ‡
Girolamo Frisari
1682
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 21(2)
Lisimaco riamato da Alexandro ‡
1682
Ottaviano Cesare Agusto
1682
I due Cesari ‡
1682
Giustino †
Nicola Berengan[i]
January 1683
The complete text is available here.
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 18(3)
L'anarchia dell'imperio ‡
Tomaso Stanzani
1683
Libretto: Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel Textb. Sammelbd 21 (5)
Publio Elio Pertinance ‡
1684
Ifianassa e Melampo
1685
Oratorios
Oratorio del giuditio
No musical source is known
Hippolito Bentivoglio
Libretto: I-Vnm, A-SPL (dated 1668)
Venice, S. Maria della Consolazione (=Fava), 1672
cf. Busta 68, Arnold 5
Other Church Music
In Natitivate Domini
[Mattins] on the Nativity of the Lord
SATB, SATB, 2 vn, vne/vla, org
Source: I-Vnm
Invitatorium, Christus natus est nobis
Quare fremuerunt
Caeli ennarant
Eructavit cor meum
Te Deum laudamus
Introitus ad Missam, Dominus dixit
I'm especially grateful to Peter Burdon of The University of Adelaide
for pointing out my mis-listing of this work in the earlier version of this web listing!
Credidi propter locutus sum
Alto, 2 vn, 2 va, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30222
Peter Burdon tells me there is evidence that this is a Legrenzi autograph,
unique amongst the musical sources.
Laudate, pueri, Dominum [Psalm 112]
SSATB, Tp, 2 vn, 2 va, Bsn, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30229
Prosa pro mortuis
SATB, SATB, 3 viols, BC
F-Pn Vm¹ 1298
Edited
Recorded on Ricercar
Intret in conspectu tuo
SSSATB, BC
GB-Lbm
This is in Handel's hand; he used one of the themes in "To thy dark servant" in Samson.
Again, thanks to Peter Burdon for pointing out the omission of this
and the following work from this list.
Spirate aurae serenae
S, 2vn, vo/theorbo, BC
D-Bsb
Instrumental Music
Rost Collection, Paris
Secular Music
Volo vivere arbitris meo
Alto, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30222
Notte, madre d'orrori
S, BC
D-Bsb Mus.ms.30212