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

• Chi la dura la vince [C 51], opera (libretto F. M. 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 26 [C 1], 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, continuo, after 1690
• Missa Bruxellensis à 23 [C App. 100], 8 solo vv, 8vv, orch, continuo, after 1696
• Missa catholica [C 2?], 4 solo vv, 4 vv, orch, incomplete
• Missa Christi resurgentis à 20 [C 3], 9vv, orch, continuo, circa 1674
• Missa ex B [C 4], 6vv, continuo, circa 1700
• Missa quadragesimalis (Missa in contrapuncto) [C 5?], 4vv, continuo
• Missa Salisburgensis à 53 [C App. 101], 16 solo vv, 16vv, orch, continuo, 1682

[1] Kyrie   (  ) – A3 full score, and set of parts also available

• Missa S Henrici à 19 [C 6], 5 solo vv, 5vv, orch, continuo, 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 53 [C App. 106], 15 solo vv, 16vv, orch, continuo, 1682   (  ) – A3 full score, and set of parts also available
• Quo abiit dilectus tuus [C 48], (= Offertorium in Festo 7 dolorum)
• Requiem à 15 in A [C 7], 6 solo vv, 6vv, orch, continuo, after 1690
• Requiem ex F con terza minore à 13 [C 8], 5 solo vv, 5vv, 2vln, 3vla, 3trb, continuo, after 1692

[1] Introïtus. Requiem æternam – Te decet hymnus – Requiem – Kyrie   (  ) – full score available, set of parts in preparation

[2] Sequentia. Dies iræ   (  ) – full score, vocal score and set of parts in preparation

• 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, ed. Guido Adler, 1918

Band 59, Requiem in f, ed. Guido Adler, 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

Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era

Volume B 107, Missa Christi resurgentis, ed. James Clements, AR-Editions, Madison, WI, 2000

Other editions

Missa Alleluia à 26 in Concerto, ed. Werner Jaksch, Bad Königshofen, 1994