Post by Henk vTPost by dkThis is not a quiz -- I don't know the answer.
I don't know either, but the bible still seems to inspire composers. Another candidate is Goethe's Faust.
I found a rather surprising number of works inspired by Dante's
Francesca da Rimini story. From the Wikipedia, which rather
curiously groups opera with theatre rather than with music:
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Francesca da Rimini, symphonic poem (1876)
Arthur Foote, Symphonic Prologue Francesca da Rimini, Op. 24 (1890)
Antonio Bazzini, Francesca da Rimini, Symphonic Poem, Op. 77 (Berlin 1890)
Pierre Maurice, Francesca da Rimini, Symphonic Poem, Op. 6 (1899)
Paul von Klenau, Francesca da Rimini, Symphonic Poem (1913, revised 1919)
Olga Gorelli, Paolo e Francesca, guitar duo from the album Hausmusik. 20th Century Chamber Music for the Home (2000)
Mediæval Bæbes, "The Circle of the Lustful" from The Rose album (2002)
Theatre and opera
Feliciano Strepponi, Francesca da Rimini, opera in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Padua 1823)
Luigi Carlini, Francesca da Rimini, opera in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Naples 1825)
Saverio Mercadante, Francesca da Rimini, opera (Madrid 1831)
Pietro Generali, Francesca da Rimini, opera, libretto by Paolo Pola (Venice 1828)
Gaetano Quilici, Francesca da Rimini, opera in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Lucca 1829)
Giuseppe Staffa, Francesca da Rimini, opera in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Naples 1831)
Giuseppe Fournier-Gorre, Francesca da Rimini, opera in two acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Livorno 1832)
Giuseppe Tamburini, Francesca da Rimini, opera in three acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Rimini 1835)
Francesco Morlacchi, Francesca da Rimini, opera (composed for Venice 1836, but unperformed)
Emanuele Borgatta, Francesca da Rimini, opera in three acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Genoa 1837)
Gioacchino Maglioni, Francesca da Rimini, opera (Genoa 1840)
Eugen Nordal (pseudonym of Johann Arnold-Gruber), Francesca da Rimini, opera after Paolo Pola (Linz 1840; performed posthumously)
Salvatore Papparlado, Francesca da Rimini, opera in four acts (Genoa 1840; unperformed)
Francesco Cannetti, Francesca da Rimini, opera, libretto by Felice Romani (Vicenza 1843)
Vincenzo Sassaroli, Francesca da Rimini, opera, libretto by Felice Romani (Catania 1846)
Giovanni Franchini, Francesca da Rimini, opera in three acts, libretto by Felice Romani (Lisbon 1857)
Giuseppe Marcarini, Francesca da Rimini, opera, libretto by Benvenuti (Piacenza 1870)
Hermann Goetz, Francesca von Rimini, opera in three acts, libretto by the composer (Mannheim 1877; overture and act III completed by Ernst Frank)
Antonio Cagnoni, Francesca da Rimini, opera in four acts, libretto by Antonio Ghislanzoni (Turin 1878)
Ambroise Thomas, Françoise de Rimini, opera (Paris 1882)
Antonio Scontrino, Francesca da Rimini, "tragedia" (in fact an opera) in five acts, libretto after D'Annunzio (Rome 1901)
Eduard Nápravník, Francesca da Rimini, opera (St. Petersburg 1902)
Sergei Rachmaninoff, Francesca da Rimini, opera in four acts, libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky (Moscow 1906)
Luigi Mancinelli, Paolo e Francesca, opera in one act (1907)[8]
Emil Ábrányi, Paolo és Francesca, opera in three acts, libretto after Dante by Emil Ábrányi, Sr. (Budapest 1912)
Franco Leoni, Francesca da Rimini, opera in three tableaux, based on Crawford's play (Paris 1914, Opéra-Comique)
Primo Riccitelli, Francesca da Rimini, opera
Riccardo Zandonai, Francesca da Rimini, opera in four acts, libretto by Tito Ricordi, based on D'Annunzio (Turin 1914)
This beats Faust by a mile:
Operatic
Mefistofele, the only completed opera by Arrigo Boito
Doktor Faust, begun by Ferruccio Busoni and completed by his pupil Philipp Jarnach
Faust, by Charles Gounod to a French libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré from Carré's play Faust et Marguerite, in turn loosely based on Goethe's Faust, Part 1
Faust (Spohr), one of the earliest operatic adaptations of the story, with separate versions premiering in 1816 and 1852 respectively.
Hector Berlioz's La Damnation de Faust (1846)
Symphonic
Faust Overture by Richard Wagner
Scenes from Goethe's Faust by Robert Schumann
Faust Symphony by Franz Liszt
Symphony No. 8 by Gustav Mahler
Histoire du soldat by Igor Stravinsky
Makes one wonder ......
dk