Heinrich Biber

Life

Born: 12 August 1644

Died: 3 May 1704

Biography

View the Wikipedia article on Heinrich Biber.

List of choral works

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 (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1987), pp. 233–264. The appendix consists of extant works of uncertain authorship.

• Chi la dura la vince [C 51], opera (libretto Raffaelini, produced ?1690–92)
• Huc pœnitentes [C 46], offertory, after 1690
• In festo trium regium, Muttetum Natale à 6 [C 43]
• Lætatus sum [C 9], B, B, str, orch, 1676
• Litaniæ de S Josepho [C 44] à 20, 8 solo vv, 8vv, 2tpt, 3trb, str, continuo, after 1690
• Lux perpetua [C 45], 8 solo vv, 8vv, str, 3trb, organ, circa 1673
• Missa Alleluia à 36 [C 1], 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, after 1690
• Missa Bruxellensis à 24 [C App. 100], 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, after 1696
• Missa catholica [C 2?], 4 solo vv, 4 vv, orch, incomplete
• Missa Christi resurgentis [C 3], 9vv, orch, circa 1674
• Missa ex B [C 4], 6vv, continuo, circa 1700
• Missa quadragesimalis (Missa in contrapuncto) [C 5?], 4vv, continuo
• Missa Salisburgensis à 54 [C App. 101], 16 solo vv, 16vv, orch, 1682

Kyrie   (  ) – A3 full score, and set of parts in preparation

• Missa S Henrici à 22 [C 6], 5 solo vv, 5vv, orch, 1697
• Ne cedite mentes [C 47], offertory, 5 solo vv, 5vv, str, 3trb, organ, after 1690
• Nisi Dominus ædificaverit domum [C 10], B, vln, vle, organ, circa 1700
• Offertorium de venerabili Sacramento
• Offertorium in Festo septem dolorum, see Quo abiit
• Plaudite tympana à 54 [C App. 106], 15 solo vv, 16vv, orch, 1682   (  ) – A3 full score, and set of parts available
• Quo abiit dilectus tuus [C 48], (= Offertorium in Festo 7 dolorum)
• Requiem à 15 in A [C 7], 6 solo vv, 6vv, orch, after 1690
• Requiem ex F con terza minore [C 8], 5 solo vv, 5vv, str, 3trb, continuo, after 1692   (  )
• Salve regina [C 49], S, viola da gamba, organ, 1663
• Stabat mater
• Vesperæ longiores ac breviores una cum litaniis Lauretanis, 4 solo vv, 4vv, str, 2trb, organ (Salzburg, 1693)

Dixit Dominus [C 13], Confitebor tibi, Domine [C 14], Beatus vir [C 15], Laudate pueri, Dominum [C 16], Laudate Dominum [C 17], Magnificat [C 18], Litaniæ Lauretanæ [C 42]

• Vesperæ de B. M. Virgine

Dixit Dominus [C 19], Laudate pueri [C 20], Lætatus sum [C 21], Nisi Dominus [C 22], Lauda Jerusalem [C 23], Magnificat [C 24]

• Vespers à 32, 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, 1674

Dixit Dominus [C 11], Magnificat [C 12]

Editions

Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreiche

Band 20, Missa Salisburgensis and Plaudite tympana (attributed to Orazio Benevoli), ed. Guido Adler, 1903

Band 49, Missa S Henrici, 1918

Band 59, Requiem in f, 1923

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