List of oratorios
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This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 17th century to the present. Unless otherwise indicated, all dates are those when the work was first performed. In some cases only the date of composition is known. In others, the oratorio has only been performed on a recording.
Contents
17th century
- Emilio de' Cavalieri – Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo 1600
- Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué – De tranen Petri ende Pauli published 1647 (only partial score survives)[1]
- Giacomo Carissimi – Jephte before 1650[2]
18th century
- George Frideric Handel – La resurrezione 1708
- George Frideric Handel – Brockes Passion 1715
- Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans 1716
- George Frideric Handel – Esther 1718
- Jan Dismas Zelenka – Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis 1723
- Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion 1724
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Easter Oratorio 1725
- Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion 1727
- George Frideric Handel – Athalia 1733
- George Frideric Handel – Deborah 1733
- Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio 1734
- George Frideric Handel – Alexander's Feast 1736
- George Frideric Handel – Israel in Egypt 1738
- George Frideric Handel – Saul 1739
- George Frideric Handel – Theodora 1739
- George Frideric Handel – L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 1740
- George Frideric Handel – Messiah 1741
- George Frideric Handel – Samson 1741
- George Frideric Handel – Joseph and his Brethren 1743
- George Frideric Handel – Semele 1743
- George Frideric Handel – Hercules 1744
- George Frideric Handel – Belshazzar 1745
- George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabaeus 1746
- George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio 1746
- George Frideric Handel – Joshua 1747
- George Frideric Handel – Alexander Balus 1748
- George Frideric Handel – Solomon 1748
- George Frideric Handel – Susanna 1748
- George Frideric Handel – The Choice of Hercules 1750
- George Frideric Handel – Jephtha 1752
- George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth 1757
- Thomas Arne – Judith 1761
- Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tag des Gerichts 1762
- George Frideric Handel – Nabal 1764
- Christopher Smart – Hannah 1764
- Christopher Smart – Abimelech 1768
- George Frideric Handel – Gideon 1769
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste 1769
- Joseph Haydn – The Creation 1798
19th century
- Joseph Haydn – The Seasons 1801
- Ludwig van Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives 1803
- Felix Mendelssohn – St. Paul 1836
- Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah 1846
- Felix Mendelssohn – Christus 1852
- Robert Schumann – Scenes from Goethe's Faust composed 1853 (premiered posthumously 1862)[3]
- Hector Berlioz – L'enfance du Christ 1854
- Arthur Sullivan – The Prodigal Son 1869
- Franz Liszt – Christus 1873
- Arthur Sullivan – The Light of the World 1873
- Jules Massenet – Marie-Magdeleine 1873
- Jules Massenet – Ève 1875
- Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Déluge 1876
- César Franck – Les Béatitudes composed 1879 (premiered posthumously 1893)[4]
- Arthur Sullivan – The Martyr of Antioch 1880
- Antonín Dvořák – Saint Ludmila 1886
- Dudley Buck – The Light of Asia composed 1886 (premiered 1887)[5]
- John Stainer – The Crucifixion 1887
- Felix Draeseke – Christus. Mysterium in a Prelude and Three Oratorios 1899
20th century
- Jules Massenet – La Terre Promise 1900
- Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius 1900
- Edward Elgar – The Apostles 1903
- Edward Elgar – The Kingdom 1906
- Erik Satie – Socrate 1920
- Arnold Schoenberg – Die Jakobsleiter composed 1922 (revised 1944, unfinished) [6]
- Arthur Honegger – Le roi David 1923
- Hermann Suter – Le Laudi 1924
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Sancta Civitas 1926
- Igor Stravinsky – Oedipus rex 1927
- Franz Schmidt – The Book with Seven Seals 1938
- Arthur Honegger – Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher 1938
- Ahmed Adnan Saygun – Yunus Emre 1942
- Michael Tippett – A Child of Our Time 1944
- Dmitri Shostakovich – Song of the Forests 1949
- Léo Ferré - La Chanson du mal-aimé 1954 (revised 1972)
- Bohuslav Martinů – The Epic of Gilgamesh 1958
- Alfred Schnittke – Nagasaki (Schnittke) 1958
- James Furman – I Have a Dream 1970
- Hans Werner Henze – Das Floß der Medusa 1971
- David Palmer – Holy Boy 1977
- Charles Wuorinen – The Celestial Sphere 1981
- Peter Schickele – Oedipus Tex composed 1985 (premiered 1986)[7]
- Paul McCartney – Liverpool Oratorio 1991
- Mona Lyn Reese – Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim 1994
- Richard Einhorn – Voices of Light 1994
- Kay Gardner – Ouroboros: Seasons of Life 1994
- Elliot Goldenthal – Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio 1995
- Matthew King – Gethsemane 1998
21st century
- John Adams El Niño 2000
- Nathan Currier – Gaian Variations 2004
- Sally Lutyens – First Light: An Oratorio 2005
- Ilaiyaraaja – Thiruvasakam recorded 2005[8]
- Kaija Saariaho – La Passion de Simone 2006
- Eric Idle and John Du Prez – Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) 2007
- Antony Pitts – Jerusalem-Yerushalayim 2008
- Richard Einhorn – The Origin 2009
- Dinesh Subasinghe – Karuna Nadee recorded 2010[9]
See also
- La passione di Gesù Cristo for a list of composers who have set oratorios to this libretto by Metastasio, originally written in 1730
- Betulia liberata for a list of composers who have set oratorios to this libretto by Metastasio, originally written in 1734
- Der Tod Jesu for a list of composers who have set oratorios to this libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler, originally written in 1755
- La Giuditta for a list of composers who have written oratorios based on the Book of Judith
References
- ↑ Grijp, Louis and Jan Bloemendal, Jan (2011). "Vondel's Theatre and Music", Joost Van Den Vondel (1587-1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age, pp. 150-151. Brill
- ↑ Randel, Don M. (1996). "Carissimi, Giacomo", The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, p. 136. Harvard University Press
- ↑ Shrock, Dennis (2009). Choral Repertoire, p. 458. Oxford University Press
- ↑ Fauquet, Joël-Marie (ed.) (1999). Correspondance de César Franck, pp. 114; 300. Editions Mardaga
- ↑ Orr, N. Lee (2008). Dudley Buck, p. 98. University of Illinois Press
- ↑ Simms, Bryan R. (2000). The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908-1923, p. 169. Oxford University Press
- ↑ Ravas, Tammy, (2004). Peter Schickele: A Bio-Bibliography, p. 109. Greenwood
- ↑ Parthasarathy, Dhanya (10 July 2005). "Song across cultures". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
- ↑ Jayawardana, Ruwini (9 February 2011). "Buddha’s life set to music". Daily News. Retrieved 1 May 2013.