Selected List of Notable Oratorios
(ordered chronologically by year of premiere)
- Antonio Vivaldi, Juditha triumphans RV 644 (1716)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, the St John Passion (1724)
- Georg Riedel (Altstadt Kantor), "monumental oratorio", the entire Gospel of Matthew (1724)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, the St Matthew Passion (1727/1736)
- Johann Sebastian Bach, the Christmas Oratorio (1734)
- Johann Adolph Hasse, various including Serpentes ignei in deserto - (1735, 1736 or 1739)
- George Frideric Handel, Esther (1732)
- George Frideric Handel, Deborah (1733)
- George Frideric Handel, Saul (1739)
- George Frideric Handel, Israel in Egypt (1739)
- George Frideric Handel, Messiah (1741).
- George Frideric Handel, Samson (1743)
- George Frideric Handel, Judas Maccabaeus (1747)
- George Frideric Handel, Joshua (1748)
- George Frideric Handel, Jephtha (1752)
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Die Israeliten in der Wüste (1769)
- Joseph Haydn, The Creation (1798)
- Joseph Haydn, The Seasons (1801)
- Ludwig van Beethoven, Christ on the Mount of Olives (1803)
- Felix Mendelssohn, St. Paul (1836)
- Robert Schumann, Paradise and the Peri (1843)
- Felix Mendelssohn, Elijah (1846)
- Hector Berlioz, L'enfance du Christ (1854)
- Franz Liszt, Christus (1862–1866)
- Théodore Dubois, Les sept paroles du Christ (1867)
- Edward Elgar, The Dream of Gerontius (1900)
- Edward Elgar, The Apostles (1903)
- Edward Elgar, The Kingdom (1906)
- Igor Stravinsky's "opera-oratorio" Oedipus Rex (1927)
- Artur Kapp, Hiiob (Job) (1929)
- Franz Schmidt, The Book with Seven Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln) (1938)
- Michael Tippett, A Child of Our Time (1941)
- Alexandre Tansman, Isaïe le prophète (1950)
- Hans Werner Henze, Das Floß der Medusa (1968, rev. 1990)
- Lorenzo Ferrero, Le néant où l'on ne peut arriver (1976)
- Mona Lyn Reese, Choose Life, Uvacharta Bachayim (1994)
- John Adams, El Niño (2000)
- Illayaraja, Thiruvasakam (2005)
- Julian Anderson, Heaven is Shy of Earth (2006/10)
- Eric Idle and John Du Prez, Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) (2007)
- Dinesh Subasinghe 'Karuna nadee' 'Buddhist Oratorio (2009/10)
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