List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi

The following is a list of published compositions by the composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901).

The list includes original creations as well as reworkings of the operas (some of which are translations, for example into French or from French into Italian) or subsequent versions of completed operas.

List of operas and revisions
Revision of earlier opera, including translations with material musical changes.

Incomplete projects

 * Re Lear (King Lear), 1856. Librettist Antonio Somma worked with Verdi on completing a libretto for an opera based on Shakespeare's King Lear. This libretto was based on an incomplete one written by librettist Salvatore Cammarano before he died in 1852. It was never set to music.

Songs

 * Sei Romanze (1838)
 * 1) Non t'accostar all'urna (Jacopo Vittorelli)
 * 2) More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta (Tommaso Bianchi)
 * 3) In solitaria stanza (Jacopo Vittorelli)
 * 4) Nell'orror di notte oscura (Carlo Angiolini)
 * 5) Perduta ho la pace (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's Faust)
 * 6) Deh, pietoso, o addolorata (trans. by Luigi Balestra from Goethe's Faust)
 * L'esule (1839) (Temistocle Solera)
 * La seduzione (1839) (Luigi Balestra)
 * Guarda che bianca luna: notturno (1839) (Jacopo Vittorelli) for soprano, tenor, bass and flute obbligato
 * Album di Sei Romanze (1845)
 * 1) Il tramonto (Andrea Maffei)
 * 2) La zingara (S. Manfredo Maggioni)
 * 3) Ad una stella (Maffei)
 * 4) Lo Spazzacamino (Felice Romani)
 * 5) Il Mistero (Felice Romani)
 * 6) Brindisi (Maffei)
 * Il poveretto (1847) (Maggioni)
 * L'Abandonée (1849) (Escudier)
 * Stornello (1869) (anon.)
 * Pietà Signor (1894) (Verdi and Boito)

Sacred works

 * Messa da Requiem (22 May 1874, San Marco, Milan): mass in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, for four solo voices, chorus, and orchestra
 * Libera me for Messa per Rossini (1869; premiered posthumously 11 September 1988, Stuttgart). Mass in memory of Gioachino Rossini. Verdi wrote the "Libera me", with contributions from twelve other composers.
 * Pater Noster (1873): for 5-part chorus
 * Ave Maria (1880): for soprano and strings
 * Quattro pezzi sacri (7 April 1898, Grande Opéra, Paris):
 * 1) Ave Maria (1889): for mixed solo voices
 * 2) Stabat Mater (1897): for mixed chorus and orchestra
 * 3) Laudi alla Vergine Maria (1888): for female voices
 * 4) Te Deum (1896): for double chorus and orchestra

Other sacred works

 * Tantum ergo in G major (1836)
 * Tantum ergo in F major
 * Messa in E-flat major
 * Laudate pueri in D major
 * Qui tollis in F major

Other vocal works (secular)

 * Suona la tromba (1848) (Goffredo Mameli), a patriotic hymn
 * Inno delle nazioni (1862, London) (Arrigo Boito), cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra. (See Hymn (or Anthem) of the Nations)

Instrumental, orchestral, chamber works
Piano Orchestral
 * Romanza senza parole (written 1844, published 1865)
 * Waltz in F Major (written 1859)
 * Valzer (written by Verdi for piano, but not published until 1963 when Nino Rota adapted it for orchestra in his score for Luchino Visconti's film The Leopard)


 * Sinfonia in B-flat major
 * Sinfonia in C major
 * Sinfonia del M. Verdi in D major 
 * with Giacomo Mori, Canto di Virginia Con Variazioni per Oboe Composte con accomp.to d'Orchestra quintetto

Chamber
 * String Quartet in E minor (1873)
 * Stramberia for violin and piano