Classic (absolute) Music
Ennio Morricone's classical compositions include over 15 piano concertos, 30 symphonic pieces, choral music and one opera. His first classical pieces date back to the late-forties.
- Il Mattino (for voice and piano) 1946
- Imitazione (for voice and piano) 1947
- Iintimità (for voice and piano) 1947
- Barcarola funebre (for piano) 1952
- Preludio a una Novella senza titolo (for piano) 1952
- Distacco I (for voice and piano) 1953
- Distacco II (for voice and piano) 1953
- Verrà la morte (for contralto and piano) 1953
- Oboe sommerso (for baritone and five instruments) 1953
- Musica (for piano and string orchestra) 1954
- Sonata (for brass ensemble, piano and timpani) 1954
- Variations on a theme by Frescobaldi (for piano) 1955
- Cantata (for orchestra and mixed chorus singing a text by Cesare Pavese) 1955
- Sestetto (for flute, oboe, bassoon, violin, viola and cello) 1955
- Twelve Variations (for oboe d'amore, cello and piano) 1956
- Invenzione, canone e ricercare (for piano) 1956
- Concerto (for orchestra) 1957
- Distanze (for violin, cello and piano) 1958
- Requiem per un destino (for mixed chorus and orchestra) 1966
- Suoni per Dino (a piece for viola virtuoso Dino Asciolla using 2 magnetic tapes) 1969
- Proibito (for 8 trumpets) 1972
- Gestazione (for female voice and instruments plus pre-recorded electronic sounds and an ad lib string orchestra) 1980
- Totem secondo (for 5 bassoons and 2 contrabassoons) 1981
- Second Concerto (for flute, cello and orchestra) 1984–85
- Four Studies (for piano) 1984–89
- Frammenti di Eros (Cantata for soprano, piano and orchestra to a text by Sergio Miceli) 1985
- Cantata per L'Europa (for soprano, two vocal recitals, mixed chorus and orchestra) 1988
- Mordenti (for harpsichord) 1988
- Epos (for orchestra) 1989
- Study (for double-bass) 1989
- Reflessi (for cello) 1989–90
- Frammenti di giochi (for violin and harp) 1990
- Third Concerto (for guitar, marimba and string orchestra) 1990–91
- UT (for trumpet, timpani, bass drum and string orchestra) 1991
- Una via crucis ('Stations of The Cross' in various vocal and instrumental combinations and in collaboration with Michele Dall'Ongaro and Egisto Macchi) 1991–93
- Fourth Concerto (for organ, two trumpets, two trombones and orchestra) 1993
- Vidi aquam (for soprano and small orchestra) 1993
- Elegia per Egisto (a piece for violin dedicated to his fellow-Nuova Consonanza member Egisto Macchi) 1993
- Il silenzio, il gioco, la memoria (for a chorus of children's voices singing a text by Sergio Miceli) 1994
- Partenope (an opera with a libretto by Guido Barbieri and Sandro Cappelletto) 1996
- Passaggio secondo (for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn, 20 strings and a vocal recital of a text by Allen Ginsberg) 1996
- Scherzo (for violin and piano) 1996; Ombra di lontana presenza (for viola, string orchestra and magnetic tape) 1997
- Nocturne and Passacaglia (for flute, oboe, clarinet, piano and strings) 1998
- Amen (for 6 choruses of mixed voices) 1998
- Pietre (for double chorus, percussion and cello) 1999
- For the Children Killed by the Mafia (for soprano, baritone, 6 instruments and two voices reciting a text by Luciano Violente) 1999
- Abenddämmerung (for violin, cello, piano and soprano or mezzo-soprano singing a text by Heinrich Heine) 2000
- If This Be a Man (for soprano, violin, strings and vocal recital of a text by Primo Levi) 2001
- Voci dal silenzio (for vocal recital, recorded voice, chorus and orchestra) 2002
- Finale (for two organs) 2002
- Riverberi (for flute, cello and piano) 2004
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