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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

List of songs

  • Stelle cadenti. 12 liriche brevi su poesie popolari toscane, Op. 6 (1915-1918)

  • Coplas. 11 liriche brevi su poesie popolari spagnole, Op. 7 (1915), arranged for voice and orchestra (1967)

  • Briciole. Tre liriche brevi di Aldo Palazzeschi, Op. 8 (1916)

  • Tre fioretti di San Francesco, Op. 11 (1920), arranged for voice and orchestra (1919-1920)

  • Girotondo dei golosi, Op. 14 (1920)

  • L'Infinito. Poesia di Giacomo Leopardi, Op. 22 (1921)

  • Sera. Dante, Purgatorio Canto VIII, Op. 23 (1921)

  • The Passionate Pilgrim (songs from Shakespeare's Tradegies and Comedies). 33 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 24 (1921–25)

  • Piccino picciò (Ninna-Nanna). Versi di Corrado Pavolini, Op 26 (1922)

  • Ballata (Messer Angelo Ambrozini, detto in Poliziano), Op. 27 (1923)

  • La Barba bianca. Un dialogo di Vamba (Luigi Bertelli), Op. 28 (1923)

  • 2 Preghiere per i bimbi d'Italia. Poesie di Vamba (Luigi Bertelli), Op. 29 (1923)

  • 4 Scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi, Op. 35/1 (1924)

  • 4 Scherzi per musica di Messer Francesco Redi. 2nd Series, Op. 35/2 (1925)

  • 1830: 3 Chansons par Alfred De Musset, mises en musique sur des fragments de Bach, Op. 36 (1925)

  • Indian Serenade. Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, Op. 38 (1925)

  • Drei Heine-Lieder/Tre poesie di Heinrich Heine; Op. 40 (1926)

  • Quattro Sonetti da "La vita nova", Op. 41 (1926)

  • 3 Sonnets from the Portuguese. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Op. 42 (1926)

  • Cadix. Chanson par Alfred de Musset (1844), Op. 45 (1926)

  • Ore Sole. Text by Aldo Palazzeschi, Op. 52 (1928)

  • Chant Hébraique: Vocalise, Op. 53 (1928)

  • 3 Vocalizzi, nello stile moderno, Op. 55 (1928)

  • Drei Heine Lieder. IItes Heft, Op. 60/1 (1929)

  • Drei Heine Lieder (Sternen Lieder). III Heft, Op. 60/2 (1929)

  • Sei Odi di Orazio, Op. 62 (1930)

  • Ballade des biens immeubles (extrait des "Nourritures terrestres" ). André Gide, Op. 68 (1931)

  • 2 Sonetti del Petrarca, Op.74/1 (1933)

  • Petrarcha-Chopin: 3 Madrigali (versi di Francesco Petrarca), Op. 74/2 (1933)

  • 2 Romances Viejos. Poesie medioevali spagnole, Op. 75/1 (1933)

  • La Ermita di San Simon, Op. 75/2 (1934)

  • Romances Viejos, II series, Op. 75/3 (1935)

  • Trois poèmes de la Pléïade, Op. 79 (1934)

  • Trois Fragments de Marcel Proust (extraits de "Les plaisirs et les jours"), Op. 88 (1936)

  • I saw in Louisiana. Poem by Walt Whitman, Op. 89/1 (1936)

  • Leaves of Grass. A Song Cycle for Voice and Piano. Poems by Walt Whitman, Op. 89/2 (1936)

  • Ocean. Poem by Walt Whitman, Op. 89/3 (1936)

  • Féeries: 3 poèmes de Paul Valéry, Op. 91a (1936)

  • Charmes: 3 poèmes de Paul Valéry, Op. 91b (1936)

  • A Dante Sonnet/Un Sonetto di Dante. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Op. 101 (1939)

  • Pansies, 2 poems by D. H. Lawrence, Op. 103 (1939)

  • Recuerdo. Poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Op. 105 (1940)

  • The Legend of Jonas Bronck. Lyrics by Arthur Guiterman, Op. 106/1 (1940)

  • New York. Poem by Arthur Guiterman, Op.106/2 (1940)

  • Upon His Blindness [published as "When I Consider How My Life is Spent"]. Words by Milton, Op. 109 (1940)

  • Le Rossignol. Words by Frère Joseph, François Leclerc du Tremblay. English version by R.B. Falk, Op. 117 (1942)

  • Ozymandias for voice and piano. Words by P. B. Shelley, Op. 124/1 (1944)

  • The Daffodils. Words by William Wordsworth, Op. 124/2 (1944)

  • The Shadow. Poem by Ben Jonson, Op. 124/3 (1944)

  • Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125/1 (1944–45)

  • Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125/4 (1963)

  • Cinque Poesie Romanesche. Words by Mario dall'Arco, Op. 131 (1946)

  • Vogelweide: ein Lieder-Cyklus für Bariton und Gitarre (oder Klavier), Op. 186 (1959)

  • Il Bestiario. Dodici poesie di Arturo Loria, Op. 188 (1960)

  • Poesia Svedese, Op. 189/1 (1960)

  • The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra, Op. 207 (1966)

  • Works without Opus

  • 3 Chansons Grises: parole di Paul Verlaine (1910) for voice and piano

  • Cera vergine (1916) for voice and piano

  • La Battaglia è finita (1916) for voice and piano

  • Due Liriche dal "Giardiniere" di Tagore (1916) for voice and piano, arranged for voice and orchestra (1917)

  • Il Libro di Dolcina. Versi di Laura Milani Comparetti (1917) for voice and piano

  • La Canzone della Tombola. Versi di Ugo Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1920) for voice and piano

  • Étoile filante. Poème de G. Jean Aubry (1921) for voice and piano

  • La sera fiesolana; laude per canto e pianoforte. Versi di Gabriele D'Annunzio (1923) for voice and piano

  • La canzone di Usigliano. Parole di Fernando Liuzzi (1923) for voice and piano

  • Villa Sola. Versi di Alberto Carocci (1927) for voice and piano

  • Ballade des amantes célèbres; pour chant et piano. Poème de André Gide (1934) for voice and piano

  • Chanson à boire (Rabelais) (1936) for voice and piano

  • Tavern. Words by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1940) for voice and piano

  • [Sweet] Spring. Words by Thomas Nash (1567-1601) (1941) for voice and piano

  • Two Byron Songs (1941) for voice and piano

  • My Love's Like a Red Rose for voice and piano. Words by Robert Burns (1941) for voice and piano

  • Two Stevenson Songs (1941) for voice and piano

  • Two Kipling Songs (from "The Jungle Book") (1942) for voice and piano

  • Le Colombe. Words by Arturo Loria (1946) for voice and piano (later became part of Il Bestiario, Op. 188)

  • De Amico ad Amicam. (Lines from a love letter, c. 1300) (1947) for voice and piano

  • Ballata dall'Esilio. Text by Guido Cavalcanti (1300) (1956) for voice and guitar

  • Three Little Songs. Text by Ulric Devaré (1958) for voice and piano

  • Le Voyage. Text by Joachim du Bellay (1525-1561) (1959) for voice and piano

  • Transcriptions for voice

  • "La Pisanella" di Ildebrando Pizzetti: Spartito completo (1916–17) for voice and piano

  • Three Sephardic Songs (1949) transcribed and harmonized by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. English and French translations by MCT, for voice and piano (or harp), arranged for voice and orchestra (1960)

  • Vos Toig Mir (A Yiddish Melody) (1963) harmonized by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, for voice and piano

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