The following list includes all of Biber's compositions which are kept in the Liechtenstein Collection in the music archives in Kromìøíž. The list is arranged by genre according to the complete catalogue of Heinrich Biber's works which is given in Eric Chafe, The Church Music of Heinrich Biber (Michigan, 1987), pp. 227-264, and information regarding copyists/autographs is adopted from there.
The new catalogue of the collection has now been published as Jiøí Sehnal and Jitøenka Pešková, Caroli de Liechtenstein-Castelcorno episcopi Olomucensis operum artis musicae collectio Cremsirii reservata, 'Artis musicae antiquioris catalogorum series' 5/1-2 (Prague, 1998). Each entry listed below is given in the following format:
Title (format)
(a) Old catalogue number (Breitenbacher)
(b) New catalogue number
(c) Modern edition(s) (where applicable)
(NB DTÖ = Denkmäler der Tonkunst in Österreich)
Missa catholica (MS parts)
(a) B I 39
(b) A 31
Missa Christi resurgentis (MS parts)
(a) B I 103
(b) A 84
(c) James Clements (ed), 'Recent Researches in the Music of the Baroque Era'
107 (AR-Editions, Madison, 2000).
Missa quadragesimalis under the title Missa in contrapuncto (MS
parts)
(a) B I 297
(b) A 202
Laetatus Sum à 7 (MS parts)
(a) B III 73
(b) A 422
Vesperae à 32 (MS parts)
(a) B III 89
(b) A 438 & 439
Vesperae Longiores ac Breviores Unacum Litaniis Lauretanis
(published by J. B. Mayr, Salzburg, 1693)
(a) B III 61 (MS parts) and A 278-287 (print)
(b) A 4212c & 4212d
Lux perpetua (MS parts: possibly autograph)
(a) B 259
(b) A 340
Salve regina à 2 (MS parts)
(a) B VI 19
(b) A 693
Arien à 4 (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 171
(b) A 878
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Arien à 4 (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 174
(b) A 880
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Ballettae à 4 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 182
(b) A 887
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Ballettae à 4 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 30
(b) A 765
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal.
Balletti à 4 (attrib. Biber: MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 248d
(b) A 4691
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Balletti à 6 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 241
(b) A 932
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Baletti [sic] (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 167
(b) A 876
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Ballettae à 4 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 107 (Attrib. Biber: Contains the first eight pieces of B XIV 167)
(b) A 765
(c) See Balletti (above)
Balletti lamentabili à 4 (MS parts: copied by Vejvanovský)
(a) B XIV 32
(b) A 766
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Balletto (Attrib. Biber: MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 250
(b) A 971
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Battalia (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 122
(b) A 840
(c) (1) Diletto Musicale, No. 357 (Vienna, 1971), ed. Nikolaus Harnoncourt
(2) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata di marche (MS parts: a second copy of the Battalia)
(a) B IV 183
(b) A 609
(c) See Battalia (above)
Mensa sonora seu musica instrumentalis
(published in Salzburg by J. B. Mayr, 1680)
(a)
(b) A 4212b
(c) DTÖ 96 (1960), ed. Erich Schenk
Serenada à 5 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 169
(b) A 877a
(c) (1) Nagels Musik Archiv, No. 112 (Kassel, 1934), ed. Paul Nettl
(2) reprinted in DTÖ 127 (1976)
Trombet- und musikalischer taffeldienst à 4 (MS parts:
possibly autograph)
(a) B XIV 173
(b) A 879
(c) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata à 6 (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B IV 110
(b) A 555
(c) (1) Edited by Kurt Janetzky (London, 1958)
(2) Musica da Camera (New York, not dated) Reprint of (1)
(3) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata à 6 die pauern-Kirchfarth genandt (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B XIV 162
(b) A 872
(c) (1) Diletto Musicale No. 258, ed. Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Vienna, 1971)
(2) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata à 7 (MS parts)
(a) B IV 172
(b) A 598
(c) (1) Diletto Musicale, No. 463, ed. Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Vienna, 1971)
(2) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata pro tabula à 10 (MS parts)
(a) B XIV 206
(b) A 904a
(c) (1) Ed. Heinz Zirnbauer (Wolfenbüttel/Zürich, 1963)
(2) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonata s. Polycarpi à 9 (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B IV 187
(b) A 611
(c) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
Sonatae, tam aris, quam aulis servientes [12 sonatas and 12 trumpet
duos]
(a) (1) A 270-272 (prints: only part books for violin 2, viola 1 & viola
4 survive)
(2) B IV 72 (MS parts for Sonatas I & XII entitled Sonata duae)
(3) B IV 93 (MS parts for Sonatas II, III & V entitled 3 Sonatae à
6)
(4) B IV 92 (MS parts for Sonatas VI, VIII, IX & XI entitled 4 Sonatae)
(b) (1) A 4212a, (2) A 521, (3) A 539, (4) A 538
(c) (1) DTÖ 106-7 (1963), ed. Erich Schenk. This publication is based upon
parts (now lost) which were formerly at Kromìøíž.
(2) Sonatas II, III & V published in Diletto Musicale Nos. 359, 515, and
516, ed. Nikolaus Harnoncourt (Vienna, 1971). These publications are based on
the MS source described in (4) above
Sonata violino solo representativa (representativa avium) (MS
score)
(a) B IV 184
(b) A 609a
(c) (1) DTÖ 151 (1997), ed. Jiøí Sehnal
(2) Facsimile edition, Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 5 (Salzburg, 1994)
Sonata violino solo (MS parts: autograph)
(a) B IV 22
(b) A 479
(c) (1) DTÖ 127 (1976), ed. Jiøí Sehnal