List of compositions by Giovanni Bottesini

Giovanni Bottesini

The following is a list of compositions by Giovanni Bottesini (1821–1889). A new comprehensive catalogue, unfortunately extremely user-unfriendly, can now be found on the Bottesini Urtext website bottesiniurtext.com/bottesini-s-catalogue

Operas

• Colón en Cuba (Cristoforo Colombo) – Opera in one act. Spanish libretto by Ramón de Palma and Rafael María de Mendive. Tacón Theatre, Havana January 31, 1848. No known score remains.
• L'assedio di Firenze (1856)
• Il diavolo della notte (1858)
• Marion Delorme (1862)
• Vinciguerra (il bandito) - Opéra-bouffe en un acte (1870)
• Alì Babà (1871)
• Ero e Leandro (1879)
• La regina del Nepal (1880)
• Nerina (1882)
• Azaële o La figlia dell'angelo (never performed)
• Cedar (never performed)
• Babele (never performed)

Orchestral works

• Symphony in D major (1836)
• Arabian Nights (1878)
• Alba sul Bosforo (1881 al Teatro San Carlo di Napoli)
• Promenade des ombres
• Sinfonia Caratteristica
• Fantasia funebre "alla memoria del colonnello Nullo"
• Graziella
• Marcia Funebre
• Marcia Orientale
• Margherita
• Ouverture
• Divertimento per corno da caccia (bugle) and orchestra
• Andante sostenuto, for string orchestra
• Ero e Leandro, Prelude
• Il diavolo della notte, Sinfonia
• Ali Baba, Overture

Works for double bass

with piano

• Adagio melanconico appassionato (Elegie par Ernst)
• Gran Allegro di Concerto "à la Mendelssohn"
• Allegretto-Capriccio in F-sharp minor ("à la Chopin")
• Capriccio di bravura
• Elegy No.1 in D major (1870)
• Elegy No.2 in E minor, "Romanza drammatica"
• Elegy No.3 in E minor, "Romanza patetica" (Melodia)
• Rêverie (1870)
• Tarantella in A minor
• Fantasia Cerrito
• Fantasia on Bellini's "Norma"
• Fantasia on Bellini's "Beatrice di Tenda"
• Fantasia on Bellini's "I Puritani" (adapted from duo with cello)
• Fantasia on Bellini's "La Straniera"
• Fantasia on Bellini's "La Sonnambula"
• Gran Fantasia on Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor"
• Fantasia on Verdi's "Il Trovatore"
• Introduzione e Gavotta in A major
• Introduction et Variations sur Le Carnaval de Venise
• Variations on Nel cor più non mi sento from Paisiello's La "Molinara"
• Introduzione e Bolero
• Introduzione e Fuga
• Meditazione: Aria on G string from Suite BWV 1068 by J.S.Bach
• Melodia No.1
• Melodia No.2
• Melodia No.3
• Melodia No.4: Auld Robin Gray, Introduction and Variations on a Scottish Song
• Serenata from Rossini's "Barber of Seville"
• Aria from Verdi's "Il trovatore"
• Una furtiva lacrima, Romanza on Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'amore"
• Finale of Bellini's "La sonnambula"
• Contrabass-Polka
• Nocturne

with orchestra

• Concerto No.1 "Concerto di bravura" in A major for double bass (1840)
• Concerto No.2 in B minor for double bass (1853) (I. Allego moderato; II. Andante; III. Finale. Allegro quasi una polacca)
• Concerto No.3 in F-sharp minor for double bass (1871) (I. Allego moderato; II. Andante; III. Finale. Allegro con fuoco)
• Concertino in C minor for double bass (I. Moderato: II. Andante; III. Finale) (version of Concerto No.2, for double bass and strings)
• Concerto a Due Contrabbassi No.1 (Gran Duo Concertante) for 2 double basses and orchestra/piano (original version, 1844)
• Gran Duo Concertante for violin, double bass and orchestra/piano (1846) (arranged by Bottesini for Violin + Double bass and later updated for its publication)
• Gran Duo Concertante for clarinet in A, double bass and orchestra/piano
• Concerto a Due Contrabbassi No.2 Passione Amorosa (I. Allegro deciso; II. Andante-Allegro; III. Allegretto), for double bass (or cello), 2nd double bass and orchestra/piano
• Duo Concertant on Themes of Bellini's "I Puritani" for cello, double bass and orchestra (original version of Puritani Fantasy)
• Duet for clarinet and double bass
• Concerto in G major, for cello and double bass

duets

• 3 Grandi Duetti, for 2 double basses:
  • No.1 (I. Allegro; II. Andante; III. Polacca. Molto allegro)
  • No.2 (I. Allegro; II. Andante; III. Rondò. Allegretto)
  • No.3 (I. Andantino; II. Presto)
• Duo in D major, for cello and double bass (I. Allegro; II. Andante molto; III. Allegro)
• Capriccio, for 2 double basses and piano
• 3 Fantasie on Rossini's Canzonette, for 2 double basses and piano:
  • 1. La danza: Allegro non troppo
  • 2. La serenata: Andante
  • 3. I marinai: Allegro moderato

Chamber music

• String Quartet No.1 in B minor
• String Quartet No.2 in B-flat major, Op.2
• String Quartet No.3 in F-sharp minor
• String Quartet No.4 in D major
• String Quartet No.5 in E-flat major
• String Quartet No.6 in E minor
• Quintet No.1 in C minor "Gran Quintetto"
• Quintet No.2 in E minor
• Quintet No.3 in A major
• Quintet No.4 in F major
• Morceaux, for viola and piano
• Rêverie, for viola and piano
• Capriccio, for cello and piano
• 3 Melodies, for cello and piano
• Rêverie, for cello and piano

Piano solo

• Preludio
• Fugue in A minor
• 3 Polke:
  • 1. Arlecchino
  • 2. Brighella
  • 3. La Tremblante

Vocal

• Il lamento della Ghisa (Le chagrin de Jeanne) in D major, for soprano and piano (1870)
• Melodia: Giovinetto innamorato, for soprano and piano
• Ci divide l'ocean, for soprano and piano
• Romanza: Dove fuggiste mai, for soprano and piano
• Romanza: Une bouche aimeé, for soprano, double bass and piano
• Terzetto: Tutto che il mondo serra (transcription of Etude No.19 in C-sharp minor, Op.25/7 by Chopin) for soprano, double bass and piano

Sacred works

• Messa di Requiem (1877/80)
• Il Giardino degli Ulivi (Garden of Olivet), Oratorio for soprano, contralto, tenor, bass + mixed chorus (SATB), organ (1887)

Instrumental music not including the solo double bass

• Morceaux – Viola and piano; autograph score, Naples
• Rêverie – Viola and piano; autograph score, Naples
• Capriccio – Cello and piano; autograph score, Milan August 25, 1863
• Three melodies – Cello and piano; autograph score, Milan
• Rêverie – Cello and piano; autograph score, Naples
• Various string quartets
• Various string quintets