List of compositions by Fabio Vacchi

By genre

Works for the stage

• Girotondo, opera in 2 acts, loosely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler’s Reigen by Roberto Roversi, commissioned by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
• Il Viaggio, opera in 2 acts, libretto by Tonino Guerra, commissioned by the Teatro Comunale di Bologna
• La station thermale, dramma giocoso in 3 acts, libretto by Myriam Tanant after Carlo Goldoni’s I bagni d’Abano, commissioned by the Opéra National de Lyon
• Scena per Doktor Faustus, choreographed poem by Heinrich Heine for 2 magnetic tapes, libretto by Lorenzo Salveti, commissioned by the Bologna Teatro Comunale.
• Dioniso germogliatore, ballet in 5 tableaux, text by Giuliano Scabia, commissioned by the Ravenna Festival
• Les oiseaux de passage, opera in 5 sequences, libretto by Myriam Tanant, commissioned by the Opéra National de Lyon and the Bologna Teatro Comunale.
• La burla universale. Cantata abbastanza profana, in one act, for female voice, 2 baritone voices, and orchestra, libretto by Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by Rai Radio Tre for centennial of Verdi’s death
• Il letto della Storia, opera in 3 acts, libretto by Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
• Macbeth, incidental music for the marionette production of the Compagnia Marionettistica Carlo Colla e Figli
• La madre del mostro, libretto by Michele Serra, commissioned by the Accademia Musicale Chigiana
• Teneke, opera in 3 acts, libretto by Franco Marcoaldi on a subject of Yashar Kemal, commissioned by the Teatro alla Scala of Milan.

Choral and vocal works

• Ballade for soprano and chamber orchestra, text of William Butler Yeats
• Continuo for soprano and instruments, text of Dino Campana
• Scherzo for soprano and chamber orchestra, text of Tonino Guerra
• Arietta Pensiero non darti for flute and soprano, or also, from the opera Girotondo for flute solo
• Grande Aria A guardar for soprano and instruments, from the opera Girotondo
• Trois vision de Geneviève for 11 string soloists and a child’s voice
• Dona nobis pacem for double chorus, on 3 subjects of Claudio Monteverdi from the Missa in illo tempore
• Mignon for voice and piano, text of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
• Briefe Büchners, six lieder for baritone, bass clarinet, and piano on fragments of the letters of Georg Büchner, commissioned by Claudio Abbado and the Berliner Festwochen
• Dioniso germogliatore II – un recitar sinfonico for narrator and orchestra, text of Giuliano Scabia
• Sacer sanctus, cantata for mixed chorus and ensemble, text of Giuseppe Pontiggia
• Io vorrei, superato ogni tremore for soprano and ensemble, text of Alda Merini, commissioned by the festival Milano Musica
• Die neugeborne Ros’entzückt for soprano and orchestra
• Tre veglie for mezzo-soprano, cello, and orchestra, text of Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival
• La prima figura da sinistra for voice and bass clarinet
• Terra comune for chorus and orchestra, text of Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
• Canti di Benjaminovo for voice and string quintet, text of Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by the Boston Musica Viva Ensemble
• Memoria italiana for 4 voices, text of Franco Marcoaldi, commissioned by the Festival delle Nazioni of Città di Castello
• Cjante for soprano and orchestra on a fragment of the Song of Songs translated in the Friuli dialect, commissioned by the Mittelfest of Cividale del Friuli
• Irini, Esselam, Shalom for voice, violin concertante, and orchestra, text edited by Moni Ovadia, commissioned by the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "G. Verdi"
• Noc’ for soprano and piano, text of Aleksandr Pushkin
• Voce d’altra voce for two narrators, chorus and orchestra, on a fragment of the Song of songs translated in Arabic, Hebrew, and the Friuli dialect, commissioned by the Mittelfest of Cividale del Friuli
• Mi chiamo Roberta for violin, cello, percussion, piano and two narrators, text of Aldo Nove, commissioned by the Mittelfest of Cividale del Friuli
• La giusta armonia for narrator and orchestra, text of Franz Heinrich Ziegenhagen, commissioned by the Salzburg Festival

Symphonic works

• Sinfonia in quattro tempi
• Poemetto
• Danae
• Scramlézz d’estèd
• Dai calanchi di Sabbiuno for large orchestra, transcribed for the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra
• En Vinternatt, commissioned by Ferrara Musica
• Diario dello sdegno, commissioned by Teatro alla Scala
• Canti d’ombre, commissioned by Orchestra Nazionale della RAI
• Dionysos suite
• Movimento di quartetto for orchestra, commissioned by the Accademia Musicale di San Giorgio
• Mare che fiumi accoglie, commissioned by the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Works for soloist and orchestra

• Concerto per pianoforte e orchestra
• Notturno concertante for guitar and orchestra
• Veglia in canto for violin and string orchestra, commissioned by the Festival of the City of Portogruaro
• Lydia for violin and string orchestra
• Voci di notte for violin concertante/solo and orchestra, commissioned by the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino for Zubin Mehta’s 70th birthday

Chamber music

• Les soupirs de Geneviève for 11 string instruments
• Fantasia for 3 string instruments and harpsichord
• Il cerchio e gli inganni for chamber orchestra
• Convegno for flute and piano
• L’usgnol in vatta a un fil for ensemble
• Trio for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and harp, from Luoghi immaginari
• Quartetto for Bruno Maderna for A clarinet, vibraphone, viola and piano, from Luoghi immaginari
• Quintetto for flute, bass clarinet, violin, cello and harp, from Luoghi immaginari
• Sestetto
• Ottetto for Luigi Nono from Luoghi immaginari
• Quartetto per archi n° 1
• Settimino from Luoghi immaginari
• Klaviertrio for violin, cello, and piano
• 6 variazioni for ensemble
• Dai calanchi di Sabbiuno for 5 performers, commissioned by the Teatro alla Scala
• 2 Pezzi op. 45 for oboe, double bass, and piano
• Wanderer-Oktett, commissioned by the European Soloist Chamber Ensemble
• Capriccio sopra La station thermale for 2 pianos
• Dai calanchi di Sabbiuno for chamber orchestra
• Movimento di quartetto for strings
• Intrada for B-flat trumpet and piano
• Wanderer-Sextett for 2 violins, 2 violas, and 2 cellos, commissioned by the Soloists of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra
• Orna buio ciel for violin, cello, and piano
• Suono di canna for 6 instruments
• Passacaglia for bass clarinet and bass tuba
• Apocrifo for 5 instruments
• Quartetto per archi n° 3, commissioned by the Tokyo String Quartet
• Quartetto per archi n° 4, commissioned by RAI Radio for the 80th anniversary of Italian radio

Works for a solo instrument

• ...di altri echi for violin
• Languido nascente for piano
• Plynn for guitar
• In alba mia, dir... for cello
• Interludio e Recitativo da Languido nascente for piano
• Presto, da boschi e prati for violin
• Tempo d’arco for double bass
• Respiri for violin
• Echi d’ombre for piano, commissioned by Per Piano Solo Meeting

[Film score]

• Soundtrack of The Profession of Arms, a film directed by Ermanno Olmi
• In pace, in canto, music accompanying the credits of Cantando dietro i paraventi, a film directed by Ermanno Olmi
• Soundtrack of Gabrielle, a film directed by Patrice Chéreau
• Soundtrack of Centochiodi, a film directed by Ermanno Olmi

Transcriptions">Transcription (music)">Transcriptions and re-elaborations

• Francesco Paolo Tosti, Four Melodies, transcription for voice and orchestra
• Hugo Wolf, Two Lieder, from the Spanisches Liederbuch, transcription for voice and instruments
• John Dowland, Flow My Dowland, 5 Songs of John Dowland transcribed and orchestrated for alto voice and ensemble
• Johann Sebastian Bach, Contrapunctus V from The Art of Fugue, re-elaboration for orchestra
• César Franck, Sonata for violin and piano, transcription for violin and strings