Canon
Where to start with Salieri
Essential works to know this composer by — spread across their styles-
OrchestralVariations on "La folia di Spagna" — For orchestra
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StageArmida — Opera
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ChamberArmonia per un tempio della notte
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VocalDe profundis clamavi, for chorus, organ and strings
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StageAxur, Re d'Ormus
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ChamberCassazione in C
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StageCatilina — Opera
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StageCesare in Farmacusa — Opera
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ChamberConcertino da camera, for oboe and strings
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OrchestralConcerto for Flute and Oboe
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OrchestralConcerto in D for Violin, Oboe, Cello and Orchestra
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StageCublai, gran kan de Tatari — Opera
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StageDaliso e Delmita — Opera
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StageDer Rauchfangkehrer
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OrchestralDie Hussiten vor Naumburg — Incidental music
Listening guide
Hand-curated paths into Salieri's catalogueMost Popular
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Falstaff (opera)
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Axur, re d\’Ormus (opera)
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Tarare (French opera)
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Piano Concerto in B-flat
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Symphony in D major
Most Acclaimed
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Falstaff
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Les Danaïdes
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Armida (opera)
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La grotta di Trofonio
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Requiem in C minor
Most Weird
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Les Danaïdesoriginally attributed to Gluck for commercial reasons — Salieri agreed to the deception; revealed as his after its success
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Prima la musica e poi le parole”First the music, then the words” — meta-theatrical opera about the opera industry; premiered on the same night as Mozart’s Der Schauspieldirektor
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Falstaffcomic opera 40 years before Verdi’s; almost never performed
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La scuola de\’ gelosischool of jealousy — comic opera; Mozart thought highly of it
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TarareFrench opera — commissioned for Paris; extremely unusual for a Viennese court composer
Similar composers
Same era, overlapping styles — by genre & period affinityWorks 62
- Orchestral
- Variations on "La folia di Spagna" — For orchestra
- Concerto for Flute and Oboe
- Concerto in D for Violin, Oboe, Cello and Orchestra
- Die Hussiten vor Naumburg — Incidental music
- Parade March in C
- Serenata No 2 in F
- Serenata No 3 in G
- Serenata no. 1 in C
- Symphony in D, "Il Giorno Onomastico"
- Symphony in D, "La Veneziana"
- Stage
- Armida — Opera
- Axur, Re d'Ormus
- Catilina — Opera
- Cesare in Farmacusa — Opera
- Cublai, gran kan de Tatari — Opera
- Daliso e Delmita — Opera
- Der Rauchfangkehrer
- Die Neger — Opera
- Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamace — Opera
- Eraclito e Democrito — Opera
- Falstaff, ossia Le tre burle
- Il Moro — Opera
- Il Talismano — Opera
- Il mondo alla rovescia — Opera
- Il ricco d'un giorno — Opera
- L'Angiolina ossia il Matrimonio per sussurro — Opera
- La Calamita de'Cuori
- La Locandiera — Opera
- La cifra — Opera
- La fiera di Venezia — Opera
- La finta scema — Opera
- La grotta di Trofinio — Opera
- La scuola de' gelosi — Opera
- La secchia rapita — Opera
- Les Danaïdes — Opera
- Pafio e Mirra ossia I prigionieri di Cipro — Ballet
- Palmira, regina di Persia — Opera
- Tarare — Opera
- Chamber
- Armonia per un tempio della notte
- Cassazione in C
- Concertino da camera, for oboe and strings
- Divertimento, for strings, no. 1
- Divertimento, for strings, no. 2
- Divertimento, for strings, no. 3
- Divertimento, for strings, no. 4
- Imperial Fanfare
- La fuga, for strings
- Largo-Allegretto
- Overture, for string quartet, no. 1 in D
- Overture, for string quartet, no. 2 in D
- Procession no. 8
- Quintetto in B flat major
- Trio, for flute, oboe and bassoon, no. 1 in G
- Trio, for flute, oboe and bassoon, no. 2 in E flat major
- Trio, for flute, oboe and bassoon, no. 3 in C
- Vocal
- De profundis clamavi, for chorus, organ and strings
- Gesù al limbo, oratorio for soloist, chorus and orchestra
- La Passione di Gesù Cristo, oratorio for chorus and orchestra
- Le jugement dernier, cantata for chorus, tenor voice and orchestra
- Requiem, for soloists, chorus, orchestra and organ in C minor
- Te Deum in C major, for chorus
- Veni sancte spiritus, for chorus and orchestra