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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Its Time To Begin | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Mother, Mother, Are You There? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Doodly, Doodly, Are You Happy? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Mummy, Mummy Dear | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Baba, What Has Happened? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Where Is Toby? | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Bravo! | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Perhaps It Was Not You After All | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| Toby's Exit | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| The Dead Never Come Back | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| I've Killed The Ghost! | — | — | — | — | Classical | 1 |
| The Swing | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | Classical | 1 |
| Gli Amanti Impossibili | — | — | — | Piano, Voice | Classical | 1 |
| Picnic by the Brandywine (Gian Menotti) | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | 0 |
| Abandoned Mansion | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | — |
| Nocturne | — | — | — | Voice, Choir | Classical | — |
| I. Capriccio | — | — | — | Piano, violin, Clarinet | Classical | 1 |
| III. Envoi | — | — | — | Piano, violin, Clarinet | Classical | 1 |
| The Telephone | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| The Consul | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Fantasia | — | — | — | Piano, Cello | Classical | — |
| The Empty-handed Traveller | — | — | — | Voice | Classical | — |
| Amahl And The Night Visitors | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Muero Porque No Muero | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Mass For The Contemporary English Liturgy | — | — | — | Tenor, Alto | Classical | — |
| Chip And His Dog | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Death Of The Bishop Of Brindisi | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Help, Help, The Globolinks! | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Martin's Lie | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| The Medium | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Missa O Pulchritudo | — | — | — | bass, Tenor, Alto | Classical | — |
| Moans, Groans, Cries And Sighs (A Composer At Work) | — | — | — | Tenor, Baritone | Classical | — |
| Ricercare | — | — | — | Organ | Classical | — |
| The Saint Of Bleecker Street | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| The Shepherds' Chorus (Amal And The Night Visitors) | — | — | — | bass, Tenor, Alto | Classical | — |
| Suite For Two Cellos And Piano | — | — | — | — | Classical | — |
| Shepherds' Chorus | — | — | — | Alto | Classical | — |