Composer
Gian Carlo Menotti
181 works in the index
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Biography
The Italian-American opera and ballet composer Gian Carlo Menotti was once praised by critic Virgil Thomson, in the New York Herald Tribune, for a “frankly Italianate treatment of ordinary human beings as thoroughly interesting in every way.”
His best known opera is a one-act work that has become part of the Christmas season, Amahl and the Night Visitors. This was the first opera ever specifically commissioned for a television broadcast. Amahl was first performed December 24, 1951, at an NBC Studio in Rockefeller Center. Menotti’s works also include a notable broadcast opera from a dozen years before that, The Old Maid and the Thief, a 1939 opus composed for radio broadcast. This helped establish this Italian immigrant’s career in the United States, and it proved musically influential due to two particular arias, “What curse for a woman, is a timid man (Steal me, sweet thief),” and “When the air sings of summer.”
In the 1980s, Menotti was still composing operas, including Goya (1986) and The Wedding (1988).
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Voice, Piano, Guitar, Vocal, Choir
- Genres represented
- Classical, pop
- Works with composition dates
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These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
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Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Afraid, Am I Afraid? | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 20 |
| Ah, Michele, Don't You Know | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 12 |
| Hello! Oh, Margaret, it's you (THE TELEPHONE) | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 12 |
| Shall We Ever See The End Of All This! | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 11 |
| Oh, Thoses Faces! | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 11 |
| The Foreign Woman's Aria | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 11 |
| The Empty-handed Traveler | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 10 |
| Be Good To Her | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 10 |
| The Bride's Song | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 10 |
| To This We've Come | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 12 |
| Oh, Sweet Jesus | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 9 |
| I Know That You All Hate Me | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 7 |
| All That Gold! | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 10 |
| The Black Swan | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 8 |
| Lullaby | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 8 |
| Look At All Those Things | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal, Mezzo Soprano Voice | Classical | 8 |
| This Is My Box | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 9 |
| Monica's Waltz | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 8 |
| II. Romanza | — | — | — | Piano, violin, Clarinet | Classical | 7 |
| O Pulchritudo (Motet) Poulenc | — | — | — | Choir | Classical | 5 |
| Arrival in New York by Sea (Gian Menotti) | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | 6 |
| The Hero | — | — | — | Voice | Classical | 7 |
| Oh, Woman, You May Keep The Gold | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical, pop | 5 |
| Ah, Do Not Laugh | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| Ah, Poor Michele | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| My Sleeping Beauty | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| Oh, Yes, I Love Her | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| Out Of My Dreams | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| The Police Agent's Aria | — | — | — | Piano, Guitar, Voice, Vocal | Classical | 5 |
| Introduction | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 7 |
| Parade in Texas (Gian Menotti) | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | 6 |
| Hello! Hello? (Lucy's Aria) | — | — | — | — | Classical | 6 |
| Shepherds' Dance | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 6 |
| Magda: "Mother!" | — | — | — | Voice | Classical | 5 |
| Lo Spettro | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | Classical | 6 |
| Come In, Come In! | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Magda: "To this we've come" | — | — | — | Voice | Classical | 5 |
| The Spools Unravel | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Oh God! What Is Happening To Me? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Please Let Us Have Our Seance, Madame Flora | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| SUBWAY RIDE IN CHICAGO, A | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | 4 |
| That Was Margaret | — | — | — | — | Classical | 4 |
| Good Evening, Madame Flora | — | — | — | — | Classical | 4 |
| Who's There? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 3 |
| Dorme Pegaso | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | Classical | 4 |
| March of the Kings | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| What To Do With Your Crutch | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Steal me, sweet thief | — | — | — | Voice | Classical | 4 |