Libretti - various types of secular music
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| Composer | First names | Dates | Title of work | Librettist | Libretto source | First performed | Information |
| Albinoni | Tomaso | 1671-1751 | Pimpinone (Interludes) | Pietro Pariati | Libretti d'opera italiani | 22 November 1708, Venice | Three comic interludes. |
| Cimarosa | Domenico | 1749-1801 | Il maestro di cappella (Interlude) | ??? | Karadar | ??? | Comic interlude. 1 act. |
| Conti | Nicola [Niccolò] | 1733-1754 | L'endimione (Cantata) | Pietro Metastasio | LiberLiber - Metastasio | 1752 Napoli | Cantata. 2 parts |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) | John Gay | Stanford.edu | Serenata. Composed c. 1718. One-part Masque. | |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) | John Gay | Karadar | Serenata. Composed c. 1718. One-part Masque. | |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) | John Gay | Naxos | Serenata. Composed c. 1718. A Masque in Two Acts. | |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Acis e Galatea (A Serenata; or Pastoral Entertainment) | John Gay | Stanford.edu | Serenata. Composed c. 1718. A Masque in Two Acts. | |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Acis e Galatea (Masque in two acts) | John Gay | HAENDEL.IT | Composed c. 1718. HWV 49a. Masque in 2 acts. | |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alceste (Masque or semi-opera) | Tobias Smollett after Euripides | HAENDEL.IT | Composed 1749. The performance planned for Covent Garden in 1750 did not take place. | Masque or semi-opera. HWV 45 |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alexander's Feast (An Ode) | Newburgh Hamilton | Stanford.edu | Composed 1736 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Alexander's Feast (An Ode) | Newburgh Hamilton | Karadar | Composed 1736 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode) | Charles Jennens | Karadar | Composed 1740 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode) (English libretto) |
Charles Jennens | Naxos | Composed 1740 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode) (German libretto) |
Charles Jennens | Naxos | Composed 1740 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | L'Allegro, il Penseroso e il Moderato (An Ode) (German libretto) |
Charles Jennens | Stanford.edu | Composed 1740 | Ode. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) | Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) | Karadar | Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. | Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) | Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) | Stanford.edu | Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. | Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | The Choice of Hercules (Interlude / One-act cantata) | Attributed to Thomas Morell, after The Judgement of Hercules by Robert Lowth (1747) | HAENDEL.IT | Composed 1751. 1 March 1751, Covent Garden, London. | Musical interlude/one-act cantata, secular oratorio. HWV 69. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai (A Masque) |
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope | Karadar | 1718, Cannons, Edgeware | Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai (A Masque) |
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope | HAENDEL.IT | 1718, Cannons, Edgeware | Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Esther, detto anche Haman and Mordecai (A Masque) |
Words by John Arbuthnot and Alexander Pope | Stanford.edu | 1718, Cannons, Edgeware | Masque in six scenes. HWV 50a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Hercules (Thre-part oratorio) |
Thomas Broughton after the Trachiniae of Sophocles and the Metamorphoses of Ovid. |
International Music Score Library Project
(German and English libretti and score in same PDF) |
1718, Cannons, Edgeware | Secular oratorio. 3 parts. HWV 60. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Serenata) |
Ambrose Philips | HAENDEL.IT | 1714, Windsor Castle? | Ode. HWV 74. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | An Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Ode) | John Dryden | Stanford.edu | 22 November 1739, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London | Ode. HWV 76. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Secular oratorio) (Italian libretto) |
Benedetto Pamphilj | HAENDEL.IT | June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome | Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Secular oratorio) (Italian libretto) |
Benedetto Pamphilj | Opernhaus Zürich | June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome | Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Secular oratorio) (German libretto) |
Benedetto Pamphilj | Opera Guide (Switzerland) | June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome | Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (Secular oratorio) (English libretto) |
Benedetto Pamphilj | Karadar | June 1707, Collegio Clementino, Rome | Oratorio in two parts. HWV 46a. |
| Handel | George Frideric | 1685-1759 | Il Trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (Secular oratorio) (Italian libretto) |
Benedetto Pamphilj | HAENDEL.IT | 23 March 1737, Covent Garden, London | Oratorio in three parts. HWV 46b. |
| Haydn | Franz Joseph | 1732-1809 | L'isola disabitata (Azione teatrale) | Pietro Metastasio | Libretti d'opera italiani | 6 Dicembre 1779, Esterháza | Azione teatrale. 2 parts. |
| Marcello | Benedetto | 1686-1739 | Arianna (Intreccio in 2 parts) | Vincenzo Cassani | Libretti d'opera italiani | Inverno 1726 | Intreccio scenico-musicale. 2 parts. |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Il sogno di Scipione (Serenata) | Pietro Metastasio | OperaGlass | (1.5.1772 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) | Dramatic serenade in one act. K.126 |
| Mozart | Wolfgang Amadeus | 1756-1791 | Il sogno di Scipione (Serenata) | Pietro Metastasio | Karadar | (? 1.5.1772 Archiepiscopal Residence, Salzburg) | Dramatic serenade in one act. K.126 |
| Rameau | Jean-Philippe | 1683-1764 | Pygmalion (Acte de Ballet) | Ballot de Sovot, after de la Motte Houdard | Karadar | 1748 | Acte de Ballet. 1 act. |
| Rousseau | Jean-Jacques | (1712-1778) | Le Devin du village (Interlude) | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Bob Frone | 18 October 1752, Fontainebleau | Interlude in 1 act. |
| Salieri | Antonio | 1750-1825 | Prima la musica e poi le parole (Divertimento teatrale) |
Giovanni Battista Casti | Libretti d'opera italiani | 7 February 1786, Vienna, Orangerie Schönbrunn | Divertimento teatrale. 1 act. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679-1744 | L'Impresario delle Canarie (Dorina e Nibbio) (Interlude) | Pietro Metastasio | Libretti d'opera italiani | Teatro S. Bartolomeo, Napoli Carnevale, 1 Febbraio 1724 | Interlude. 2 parts. Performed with Didone abbandonata. |
| Sarro (Sarri) |
Domenico | 1679-1744 | The Master of the Opera (Interlude) (English translation of L'Impresario delle Canarie) |
Pietro Metastasio | The Domenico Sarro Page | King's theater , Haymarket, London, 1737 | Interlude. 2 parts. |
| Scarlatti | Domenico | 1685-1757 | La Dirindina (Interlude) | Girolamo Gigli | Libretti d'opera italiani | Carnival 1715, Rome. | Farcical interlude. 2 parts. |
