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List of oratorios

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This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 16th 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 heard on a recording.

There is considerable overlap between the oratorio and the cantata, especially during the 19th century. The works listed below are those that have most often been referred to as oratorios.Oxford English Dictionary: "A large-scale, usually narrative musical work for orchestra and voices, typically on a sacred theme and performed with little or no costume, scenery, or action."

16th century

17th century

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  • Pietro della Valle – Oratorio della Purificatione (1640, the earliest documented use of the word "oratorio" to describe a musical composition)Howard E. Smither, "Oratorio", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).
  • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué – De tranen Petri ende Pauli (published 1647, only partial score survives)Grijp, Louis and Jan Bloemendal, Jan (2011). [https://books.google.com/books?id=_mc0_nllkTEC&dq=%22De+tranen%2C+Petri+ende+Pauli%22&pg=PA152 "Vondel's Theatre and Music"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030204023/https://books.google.com/books?id=_mc0_nllkTEC&dq=%22De+tranen,+Petri+ende+Pauli%22&pg=PA152 |date=30 October 2023 }}, Joost Van Den Vondel (1587–1679): Dutch Playwright in the Golden Age, pp. 150–151. Brill
  • Giacomo CarissimiHoward E. Smither. A History of the Oratorio, Vol. 1 (1977)
  • Jephte (before 16 June 1648)Andrew V. Jones, "Carissimi, Giacomo [Jacomo]", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).Randel, Don M. (1996). [https://books.google.com/books?id=s6XH8mOtfwcC&dq=Giacomo+Carissimi+Jephte+1650&pg=RA1-PA136 "Carissimi, Giacomo"], The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, p. 136. Harvard University Press
  • Baltazar (mid-17th century)
  • Diluvium universale (mid-17th century)
  • Dives malus (mid-17th century)
  • Ezechias (mid-17th century)
  • Jonas (mid-17th century)
  • Abramo e Isacco (mid-17th century)
  • Job (mid-17th century)
  • Judicium extremum (mid-17th century)
  • Judicium Salomonis (before 1669)
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier
  • Judith sive liberata H.391 (mid 1670s)
  • Canticum pro pace H.392 (mid 1670s)
  • Canticum in nativitatem Domini H.393 (mid 1670s)
  • In honorem Caecilliae, Valeriani et Tiburij canticum H.394 (mid 1670s)
  • Pour la fête de l'Epiphanie H.395 (mid 1670s)
  • Historia Esther H.396 (mid 1670s)
  • Cacillia virgo et martyr Octobre vocibus H.397 (mid 1670s)
  • Pestis Mediolanensis H.398 (mid 1670s)
  • Prélude pour Horrenda pastis H.398 a (1679)
  • Filius prodigus H.399 (1680)
  • Prélude pour l'enfant prodigue H.399 a (1681–82)
  • L'enfant prodigue H/399 b (date unknown)
  • L'enfant prodigue H.399 c (date unknown)
  • Canticum in honorem Beatae Virginis Mariae... H.400 (1680)
  • Extremum Dei judicium H.401 (early 1680s)
  • Sacrificium Abrahae H.402
  • Symphonies ajustées au sacrifice d'Abraham H.402 a (date unknown)
  • Le sacrifice d'Abraham H.402 b (date unknown)
  • Mors Saülis et Jonathae H.403 (early 1680s)
  • Josue prélude H.404 a (1679)
  • Josue H.404 (early 1680s)
  • In resurrectione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi H.405 (1681–82)
  • In circumcisione Domini / Dialogus inter angelum et pastores H.406 (1682–83)
  • Dialogus inter esurientem, sitientem et Christum H.407 (1682–83)
  • Elévation H.408 (1683)
  • In obitum augustissimae nec non piissime Gallorum regina lamentum H.409 (1683)
  • Praelium Michaelis Archangeli factum in cocho cum dracone H.410 (1683)
  • Caedes sanctorum innocentium H.411 (1683–85)
  • Nuptiae sacrae H.412 (1683–85)
  • Caecilia virgo et martyr H.413 (1683–85)
  • In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H.414 (1683–85)
  • Caecilia virgo et martyr H.415 (1686)
  • Prologue de la Ste Cécile après l'ouverture : Harmonia coelistis H.415 a (1686–87)
  • In nativitatem Domini canticum H.416 (late 1680s)
  • Dialogus inter Christum et homines H.417 (early 1690s)
  • In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae H.418 (early 1690s)
  • Pour Saint Augustin mourant H.419 (late 1690s)
  • Dialogus inter angelos et pastores Judae in nativitatem Domini H.420 (late 1690s)
  • In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H.421 (1698–99)
  • Judicium Salomonis H.422 & H.422 a (1702)
  • Dialogus inter Magdalena et Jesu 2 vocibus Canto e Alto cum organo H.423 (date unknown)
  • Le reniement de St Pierre H.424 (date unknown)
  • Dialogus inter Christum et peccatores H.425 & H.425 a date unknown)
  • Louis-Nicolas Clérambault – L'histoire de la femme adultère ( 1699 ?) C.191
  • Sébastien de Brossard – Dialogus poenitentis animae cum Deo (1699 ?) SdB.55

18th century

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  • Sébastien de Brossard – Oratorio sopra l'immaculata conceptione della B Virgine (1702–1713) SdB.56
  • George Frideric Handel – Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (1707)
  • George Frideric Handel – La resurrezione (1708)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza da S Niccolò (?1712)
  • George Frideric Handel – Brockes Passion (1715)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – Mosè al mar rosso, ovvero Il naufragio di Faraone (?1715; revised as La liberazione del popolo ebreo nel naufragio di Faraone, 1723)
  • Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans (1716)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – L'incoronazione di Davidde (1717)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – La caduta del savio nell'idoltria di Salomone (1720)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis (1723)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion (1724)
  • Johann David Heinichen – L'aride tempie ignude, passion oratorio (1724?)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – L'empietà distrutta nella caduta di Gerico (1724)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Easter Oratorio (1725)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion (1727)
  • Johann David Heinichen – Come? S'imbruna il cieli Occhi piangete (1728), passion oratorio (1724?)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – Il Serpente di Bronzo (1730)
  • Willem de Fesch – Judith (1732)
  • Maurice Greene – The Song of Deborah and Barak (1732)Zöllner, Eva. '[https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-eighteenthcentury-music/handel-and-english-oratorio/041CB5E8791C9FF9BC406AA4060AC859 Handel and English oratorio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028131013/https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cambridge-history-of-eighteenthcentury-music/handel-and-english-oratorio/041CB5E8791C9FF9BC406AA4060AC859 |date=28 October 2021 }}' in The Cambridge History of Eighteenth Century Music (2011)
  • George Frideric Handel – Esther (1732)
  • George Frideric Handel – Athalia (1733)
  • George Frideric Handel – Deborah (1733)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Il cantico de' tre fanciulli (1734)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Christmas Oratorio (1734)
  • Johann Sebastian Bach – Ascension Oratorio (1735)
  • Johann Georg Reutter – Gioas re di Giuda (1735)
  • William Boyce – David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (1736)Bartlett, Ian. '[https://www.jstor.org/stable/961982 Boyce and the Early English Oratorio] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028130604/https://www.jstor.org/stable/961982 |date=28 October 2021 }}'. in The Musical Times, Vol. 120, No. 1634 (April 1979), pp. 293–297
  • George Frideric Handel – Alexander's Feast (1736)
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka – I penitenti al sepolcro del redentore (1736)
  • Maurice Greene – Jephtha (1737)[https://musicwebinternational.com/2025/04/maurice-greene-jephtha-chandos/ Chandos CHSA0408 SACD (2025)]
  • George Frideric Handel – Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità (1737)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Le virtù appiè della croce (1737)
  • George Frideric Handel – Israel in Egypt (1738)
  • George Frideric Handel – Saul (1739)
  • Giuseppe Bonno – Eleazaro (1739)
  • Giuseppe Bonno – San Paolo in Athene (1740)
  • George Frideric Handel – L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato (1740)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Serpentes ignei in deserto (1740)
  • John Christopher Smith – David's Lamentation over Saul and Jonathan (Hickman's Rooms, 1740)
  • George Frideric Handel – Messiah (1741)
  • George Frideric Handel – Samson (1741)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Giuseppe riconosciuto (1741)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore (1742)
  • George Frideric Handel – Joseph and his Brethren (1743)
  • George Frideric Handel – Semele (1743)
  • Thomas Arne – The Death of Abel (1744, lost except for 'Hymn of Eve')
  • Thomas Arne – Judith (1744)
  • Maurice Greene – The Force of Truth (1744)
  • George Frideric Handel – Hercules (1744)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Ci'l un parantê und parsol scelopgrini (1744)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – L'errore di Salomone (1744)
  • Thomas Arne – Alfred (1745, oratorio version, later an opera)
  • George Frideric Handel – Belshazzar (1745)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – La Caduta di Gerico (1745)
  • Willem de Fesch – Joseph (1746)
  • George Frideric Handel – Judas Maccabaeus (1746)
  • George Frideric Handel – Occasional Oratorio (1746)
  • George Frideric Handel – Joshua (1747)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – Santa Elena al Calvario (1747)
  • Franz Xaver Richter – La Deposizione della Croce (1748)
  • George Frideric Handel – Alexander Balus (1748)
  • George Frideric Handel – Solomon (1748)
  • George Frideric Handel – Susanna (1748)
  • George Frideric Handel – Theodora (1749)
  • George Frideric Handel – The Choice of Hercules (1750)
  • William Hayes – The Fall of Jericho (c. 1740–50)
  • William Hayes – The Passions. An Ode for Music ('dramatic oratorio', 1750)
  • Jean-Joseph de Mondonville – Coeli enarrant gloria (1750)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – La conversione di Sant' Agostino (1750)
  • George Frideric Handel – Jephtha (1752)
  • Carl Heinrich Graun – Der Tod Jesu (1755)
  • George Frideric Handel – The Triumph of Time and Truth (1757)
  • John Stanley – Jephthah (1757)
  • Johann Adolph Hasse – S. Petrus et S. Maria Magdalena (1759)
  • Giuseppe Bonno – Isacco figura del redentore (1759)
  • John Christopher Smith – Paradise Lost (1760)
  • John Stanley – Zimiri (1760)
  • Thomas Arne – Judith (1761)
  • John Christopher Smith – Rebecca (1761, reworking of music by Handel)
  • John Stanley – Arcadia (1762)
  • Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tag des Gerichts (1762)
  • Johann Georg Albrechtsberger – La passione di Gesù Cristo (1762)
  • George Frideric Handel – Nabal (1764)
  • John Christopher Smith – Tobit (1764, reworking of music by Handel)
  • John Worgan and Christopher Smart – Hannah (1764)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Isacco figura del Redentore (1766)
  • John Worgan – Manasseh (1766), performed at the Lock HospitalHistorical Dictionary of English Music ca. 1400–1958 ed. by Charles Edward McGuire, Steven E. Plank (2012), p. 223
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots (1767, only the first part)
  • Francesco Maria Veracini – L'Assalone, ovvero L'infedelta punita (before 1768)
  • Samuel Arnold – Cure of Saul (1767)
  • Samuel Arnold – Abimelech (1768)S D Long and J Sawyer: The Bible in Music (2017), p.5
  • Michael Haydn – Der Kampf der Busse und Bekehrung (1768)
  • Michael Haydn – Kaiser Constanstin I. Feldzug und Sieg (1769)
  • George Frideric Handel – Gideon (1769)
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste (1769)
  • Franz Joseph Aumann – Oratorium De Passione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi (c.1770)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Davide penitente (1770)
  • Michael Haydn – Der reumütige Petrus (1770)
  • Michael Haydn – Der büssende Sünder (1771)
  • Josef Mysliveček – Adamo ed Eva (1771)
  • Florian Leopold Gassmann – La Betulia Liberata (1772)
  • Samuel Arnold – The Prodigal Son (1773)
  • Luffman Atterbury – Goliah (5 May 1773, Haymarket Theatre, London)
  • Charles Avison (in collaboration with Felice Giardini) – Ruth (1773)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – La Liberatrice del Popolo Giudaico nella Persia, o sia l'Esther (1773)
  • Samuel Arnold – Omnipotence (1774)
  • Giuseppe Bonno – Il Giuseppe riconosciuto (1774)
  • John Stanley – The Fall of Egypt (1774)
  • Joseph Haydn – Il ritorno di Tobia (1775)
  • James Hook – The Ascension, (Covent Garden, 20 March 1776)
  • Antonio Salieri – La passione di Gesù Cristo (1776)
  • Joseph Martin Kraus – Der Tod Jesu (1776)
  • John Abraham Fisher – Providence (Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, 2 July 1777){{Cite web|url=https://www.artaria.com/pages/fisher-john-abraham-1744-1806|title=Biography of the composer John Abraham Fisher|website=Artaria Editions|accessdate=22 April 2022|archive-date=14 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220114095616/https://www.artaria.com/pages/fisher-john-abraham-1744-1806|url-status=live}}
  • William Hayes – David (first two acts completed, the rest finished by his son Philip (1777)
  • Thomas Linley the younger – The Song of Moses (1777)
  • Robert Wainwright – The Fall of Egypt (1780, Liverpool)
  • Marianna Martines – Sant'Elena al Calvario (1781)
  • Marianna Martines – Isacco figura del redentore (1782)
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Davide penitente (1785)
  • Antonio Rosetti – Der sterbende Jesu (1785)
  • Anton Teyber – Gioas re di Giuda (1786)
  • Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf – Giobbe (1786)
  • Antonio Rosetti – Jesus in Gethsemane (1790)
  • Joseph Eybler – Die Hirten bei der krippe zu Bethlehem (1794)
  • Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – Gioas re di Giuda (1795)
  • Joseph Haydn – The Seven Last Words of Christ (1796)
  • Joseph Haydn – The Creation (1798)

19th century

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  • Joseph Haydn – The Seasons (1801)
  • Christian Ernst Graf – Der Tod Jesu (1802)
  • Friedrich Witt – Der leidende Heiland (1802)
  • Ludwig van Beethoven – Christ on the Mount of Olives (1803)
  • Ferdinando Paer – Il Santo Sepolcro (1803)
  • Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – La celebre Nativita del Redentore (1806)
  • Antonio Casimir Cartellieri – La purificatione di Maria Virgine (1807)
  • Ferdinando Paer – La Passione di Gesu Cristo (1810)
  • Joseph Eybler – Die vier letzten Dinge (1810)
  • Giacomo Meyerbeer – Gott und die Natur (1811, Berlin)
  • William Crotch – Palestine (1812)Scholes, Percy A. 'The Century of Oratorio', in The Mirror of Music (1947), pp. 63–148
  • Maximilian Stadler Die Befreyung von Jerusalem (1813)
  • George Perry – Elijah and the Priests of Baal (1818)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Das Weltgericht (1819)
  • Franz Schubert – Lazarus (composed 1820, unfinished)
  • Simon Mayr – Gioas (1823)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Verlorne Paradies (1824)
  • Louis Spohr – Die letzten Dinge (1826, translated as The Last Judgement 1830)
  • Bernhard Klein – Jephtha (1828, Cologne)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Pharao (1828)
  • Peter Josef von Lindpaintner – Der Jüngling von Nain (1829, English version The Widow of Nain, 1850s)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Christus das Kind (1829)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Gideon (1829)
  • Philip Trajetta – Jerusalem in Affliction (1828, Philadelphia)
  • Philip Trajetta – Daughter of Zion (1829, Philadelphia)
  • Bernhard Klein – David (1830, Halle)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm – Mount Sinai (1832)
  • Mary Linwood – David’s First Victory (1833, St. Paul's Chapel, Birmingham)
  • Henry Bishop – The Seventh Day (1834)
  • William Crotch – The Captivity of Judah (1834)
  • Sigismund von Neukomm – David (Birmingham Festival, 1934)
  • Louis Spohr – Des Heilands letzte Stunden (Calvary) (1834–35)
  • Felix Mendelssohn – St. Paul (1836)
  • Friedrich Schneider – Getsemane und Golgotha (1838)
  • Henry Bishop – The Fallen Angel (1839)
  • Ferdinand Hiller – Die Zerstörung Jerusalems (1840)
  • Louis Spohr – Der Fall Babylons (The Fall of Babylon) (1842, Norwich Festival)
  • Robert Schumann – Das Paradies und die Peri (1843)
  • William Jackson – The Deliverance of Israel from Babylon, (c 1845)
  • Hector Berlioz – La damnation de Faust (1846)
  • Félicien David – Moïse au Sinaï ('Moses on Sinai') (1846)
  • César Franck – Ruth (1846)
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Elijah (1846)
  • George Perry – Hezekiah (1847)
  • Felix Mendelssohn – Christus (composed 1847, unfinished (premiered posthumously 1852)
  • Félicien David – Eden (1848)
  • Charles Edward Horsley – David, Op.30 (1850)
  • William Richard Bexfield – Israel Restored (composed 1851, premiered Norwich Festival, 1852)
  • William Jackson – Isaiah (1851)
  • Robert Schumann – Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (1851)
  • Henry Hugh Pierson – Jerusalem, (1852, Norwich Festival)
  • Charles Edward Horsley – Joseph, Op.39 (1853)
  • Robert Schumann – Scenes from Goethe's Faust (composed 1853, premiered posthumously 1862)Shrock, Dennis (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=xgzYae1n__EC&dq=Schumann+%E2%80%93+Scenes+from+Goethe%27s+Faust+1862&pg=PA458 Choral Repertoire] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030204023/https://books.google.com/books?id=xgzYae1n__EC&dq=Schumann+%E2%80%93+Scenes+from+Goethe%27s+Faust+1862&pg=PA458 |date=30 October 2023 }}, p. 458. Oxford University Press
  • Hector Berlioz – L'enfance du Christ (1854)
  • Charles Gounod – Tobie (1854)
  • John Griesbach – Daniel (Sacred Harmonic Society, 30 June 1854)
  • Henry Leslie – Immanuel (1854)
  • Frederick Ouseley – The Martyrdom of St Polycarp (1854)
  • Ann Mounsey Bartholomew – The Nativity, Op. 29, pastoral oratorio (1855)
  • Michael Costa – Eli (1855)
  • Charles Gounod – Les Sept Paroles de Notre Seigneur Jésus-Christ sur la Croix (1855)
  • George William Torrance – Abraham (1855)
  • Henry Leslie – Judith 1858)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Oratorio de Noël (1858)
  • Anton Rubinstein – Paradise Lost (1859), "sacred opera")
  • Henry Hiles – David (1860)
  • Charles Edward Horsley – Gideon (1860, Glasgow Music Festival){{Cite web |url=https://imslp.org/wiki/Gideon,_Op.50_(Horsley,_Charles_Edward) |title=C E Horsley, Gideon, score at IMSLP |access-date=28 June 2022 |archive-date=28 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220628100300/https://imslp.org/wiki/Gideon,_Op.50_(Horsley,_Charles_Edward) |url-status=live }}
  • Bernhard Molique – Abraham, op. 65 (1860)
  • Alfred Gaul – Hezekiah(1861)
  • Charles Sandys Packer – Crown of Thorns (1863)Lea-Scarlett, EJ (1974). [http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/packer-charles-sandys-stuart-shipley-4353 Packer, Charles Sandys (Stuart Shipley) (1810–1883)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627211533/http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/packer-charles-sandys-stuart-shipley-4353 |date=27 June 2015 }}, Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, MUP
  • Michael Costa – Naaman (1864)
  • George William Torrance – The Captivity (1864)
  • Cesar Franck – La Tour de Babel (1865)
  • Franz Liszt – Die Legende von der heiligen Elisabeth (1865)
  • John Stainer – Gideon (1865)
  • Peter Benoit – Lucifer (1866)
  • Henry Hiles – The Patriarchs (1866)
  • Théodore Dubois – Les Sept Paroles du Christ (1867)
  • William Sterndale Bennett – The Woman of Samaria (1867, Birmingham Festival)
  • Peter Benoit – De Schelde (1868)
  • Henry Litolff – Ruth et Boaz (1869)
  • Arthur Sullivan – The Prodigal Son (1869)
  • Otto Goldschmidt – Ruth (1870)
  • Anton Rubinstein – The Tower of Babel (1870, "sacred opera")Upton, George P. [https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22793/22793-h/22793-h.htm The Standard Oratorios] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214045147/https://www.gutenberg.org/files/22793/22793-h/22793-h.htm |date=14 December 2022 }} (1893)
  • Julius Benedict – St Peter (1870, Birmingham Festival)
  • Edmund Chipp – Naomi: A Sacred Idyll (1870)
  • William Cusins – Gideon (1871, Gloucester)
  • William Carter – Placida, the Christian Martyr (1872){{cite encyclopedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&dq=%22William+Carter%22+1838+composer&pg=PA59|title=Carter, William (1838 – ?)|encyclopedia=Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|author=Maggie Humphreys, Robert C. Evans|page=59|year=1997|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9780720123302}}
  • John Knowles Paine – St Peter (1872 - "America's first oratorio")
  • John Francis Barnett – The Raising of Lazarus (1873)
  • Franz Liszt – Christus (1873)
  • George Alexander Macfarren – St John the Baptist (1873, Bristol Festival)
  • Jules Massenet – Marie-Magdeleine (1873)
  • Frederick Ouseley – Hagar (1873, Hereford Festival)
  • Edouard Silas – Joash (1873, Norwich Festival)
  • Henry Smart – Jacob (1873, Glasgow Festival)
  • Arthur Sullivan – The Light of the World (1873)
  • Max Bruch – Odysseus (1873)
  • Frederick Bridge – Mount Moriah (1874)
  • César Franck – Rédemption (1874)
  • Edmund Chipp – Job (1875)
  • Jules Massenet – Ève (1875)
  • Charles Swinnerton Heap – The Captivity (1875, Birmingham Town Hall)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – The Resurrection (1875)
  • Henry Gadsby – Alcestis (1876)
  • George Alexander Macfarren – The Resurrection (1876, Birmingham Festival)
  • Camille Saint-Saëns – Le Déluge (1876)
  • Max Bruch – Arminius (1877)
  • John Liptrot Hatton – Hezekiah (1877, Crystal Palace)
  • George Alexander Macfarren – Joseph (1877, Leeds Festival)
  • Philip Armes – Hezekiah (1878)
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen – The Deluge, (1878, Brighton Festival)
  • Théodore Dubois – Le Paradis Perdu, (1878)
  • John Stainer – The Daughter of Jairus (1878)
  • César Franck – Les Béatitudes (composed 1879, premiered posthumously 1893)Fauquet, Joël-Marie (ed.) (1999). [https://books.google.com/books?id=eKsUNpWbujUC&q=B%C3%A9atitudes+1893&pg=PA299 Correspondance de César Franck] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030204024/https://books.google.com/books?id=eKsUNpWbujUC&q=B%C3%A9atitudes%201893&pg=PA299 |date=30 October 2023 }}, pp. 114; 300. Editions Mardaga
  • Benjamin Godard – Diane, Op.52 (1880)
  • Arthur Sullivan – The Martyr of Antioch (1880)
  • Jules Massenet – La Vierge (1880)
  • Philip Armes – St. John the Evangelist (1881)
  • Alfred Gaul – The Holy City (1882)
  • Charles Gounod – La rédemption (1882)
  • George William Torrance – The Revelation (1882, Melbourne)
  • Joseph Barnby – Rebekah (1883)
  • George Alexander Macfarren – King David (1883, Leeds Festival)
  • John Stainer – Mary Magdalen (1883)
  • Alexander Mackenzie – The Rose of Sharon (1884, Norwich Festival)
  • Charles Gounod – Mors et vita (1885)
  • Dudley Buck – The Light of Asia (composed 1886 (premiered 1887)Orr, N. Lee (2008). [https://books.google.com/books?id=nxUbPDdLJpQC&dq=Buck+Light+of+Asia+washington&pg=PA98 Dudley Buck] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030204026/https://books.google.com/books?id=nxUbPDdLJpQC&dq=Buck+Light+of+Asia+washington&pg=PA98 |date=30 October 2023 }}, p. 98. University of Illinois Press
  • Antonín Dvořák – Saint Ludmila (1886, Leeds Festival)
  • W. S. Rockstro – The Good Shepherd (1886, Three Choirs Festival)
  • Marie Emmanuel Augustin Savard – La Vision de Saül (1886)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – The Three Holy Children (1886, Birmingham Festival)
  • Charles Vincent – Ruth (December 1886, Hampstead)
  • Giovanni Bottesini – The Garden of Olivet (1887, Norwich Festival)
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen – Ruth (1887, Three Choirs Festival)
  • Luigi Mancinelli – Isaias (1887, Norwich Festival)
  • John Stainer – The Crucifixion (1887)
  • Hubert Parry – Judith (1888, Birmingham Festival)
  • William Spark – Immanuel (1889)
  • Frederick Bridge – The Repentance of Nineveh (1890, Worcester Festival)
  • Edgar Tinel – St Francis (1890)
  • Philip Armes – St Barnabas (1891, Durham Cathedral)
  • Charles Gounod – Saint Francois d'Assise (1891)
  • Emma Mundella – The Victory of Song (1891)
  • Charles Villiers Stanford – Eden (1891, dramatic oratorio)
  • Paul Gilson – Francesca da Rimini (1892)
  • Alexander Mackenzie – Bethlehem (1892)
  • Hubert Parry – Job (1892, Gloucester Festival)
  • Horatio Parker – Hora Novissima (1893)
  • Heinrich von Herzogenberg – Die Geburt Christi, op. 90 (1894)
  • Hubert Parry – King Saul (1894, Birmingham Festival)
  • Max Bruch – Moses (1895)
  • Edward Elgar – The Light of Life (Lux Christi) (1896)
  • Willard Patton (1853–1924) – Isaiah (1897)Landon, Robert Tallant (1974). [http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/47867/laudon_Patton.pdf;sequence=1 Willard Patton, Friend of Music and Musicians] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406201600/http://conservancy.umn.edu/bitstream/handle/11299/47867/laudon_Patton.pdf;sequence=1 |date=6 April 2017 }}, p. 5, Minnesota Musicians of the Cultured Generation, University of Minnesota
  • Lorenzo Perosi – La Passione di Cristo (1897)
  • Henry Walford Davies – Days of Man (1897)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – La Trasfigurazione di Cristo (1898)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – La Risurrezione di Lazzaro (1898)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – La Risurrezione di Cristo (1898)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – Il Natale del Redentore (1899)
  • Felix Draeseke – Christus. Mysterium in a Prelude and Three Oratorios (1899)
  • Frederic Hymen Cowen – Jephthah (1900, unfinished)
  • Horatio-Parker – A Wanderer's Psalm (1900, Hereford Festival)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – L'entrata di Cristo in Gerusalemme (1900)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – La Strage degli Innocenti (1900)
  • Lorenzo Perosi – Mosè (1900)
  • Jules Massenet – La Terre Promise (1900)
  • Edward Elgar – The Dream of Gerontius (1900)

20th century

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21st century

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  • Jacob ter Veldhuis – Paradiso Oratorio (2001){{Cite web|url=https://www.chandos.net/error|title=Chandos Records|website=Chandos Records|accessdate=22 April 2022|archive-date=28 October 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028172234/https://www.chandos.net/error|url-status=live}}
  • Anthony Davis – Restless Mourning (2002), commemorating the 9/11 attacks
  • Nathan Currier – Gaian Variations (2004)
  • Piotr Rubik – Oratorium Świętokrzyska Golgota (2004)
  • Nicholas Simpson – Recreation (2004)
  • Sally Lutyens – First Light: An Oratorio (2005)
  • Ilaiyaraaja – Thiruvasakam (2005)Parthasarathy, Dhanya (10 July 2005). [http://hindu.com/thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005071000410500.htm&date=2005/07/10/&prd=mag& "Song across cultures"]. The Hindu. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  • Piotr Rubik – Tu Es Petrus (2005)
  • Julian Anderson – Heaven is Shy of Earth (2006, BBC Proms)
  • Howard Blake – The Passion of Mary (2006)
  • Paul McCartney – Ecce Cor Meum (2006)
  • Francis Pott – The Cloud of Unknowing (2006)
  • Piotr Rubik – Oratorium Psałterz Wrześniowy (2006)
  • Kaija Saariaho – La Passion de Simone (2006)
  • Eric Idle and John Du Prez – Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy) (2007)
  • Ted Hearne – Katrina Ballads (2007)
  • Paul Moravec – The Blizzard Voices (2008){{Cite web|url=https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/a-new-american-oratorio/|title=A New American Oratorio – PS Audio|accessdate=22 April 2022|archive-date=25 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220525141255/https://www.psaudio.com/copper/article/a-new-american-oratorio/|url-status=live}}
  • Antony Pitts – Jerusalem-Yerushalayim (2008)
  • Steven Stucky and Gene Scheer – 4 August 1964 (2008){{cite news|url = https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/arts/music/14waki.html |work =The New York Times|date = 12 September 2008|title = Two Wars, Two Presidents, One Oratorio|first = Daniel J.|last =Watkin|url-access = registration|archive-date =11 February 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210211010353/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/arts/music/14waki.html}}
  • Jonathan Dove – There was a child (2009){{Cite web|url=https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD285|title=Dove: There was a child|accessdate=22 April 2022|via=www.hyperion-records.co.uk|archive-date=4 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220704033733/https://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/dc.asp?dc=D_SIGCD285|url-status=live}}
  • Richard Einhorn – The Origin (2009)
  • Fredrik Sixten – A Swedish Christmas Oratorio (2009)
  • Paul Spicer – Advent Oratorio (2009)[http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/content.asp?id=87016 Advent without cant, and carols in no man's land] Review of Advent Oratorio in the Church Times
  • Donald Reid Womack – Voices of Kalaupapa (2009)
  • Kitty Brazelton – Ecclesiastes: A Modern Oratorio (2010)
  • Rob Gardner – Lamb of God (2010)
  • Dinesh Subasinghe – Karuna Nadee (2010)Jayawardana, Ruwini (9 February 2011). [http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/02/09/art21.asp "Buddha's life set to music"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120729022004/http://www.dailynews.lk/2011/02/09/art21.asp |date=29 July 2012 }}. Daily News. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  • Jonathan Harvey, Hans Küng (libretto) – Weltethos; (premiered 2011){{Cite web|last=Halsey|first=Simon|date=15 October 2011|title=The premiere of Weltethos by Jonathan Harvey|url=https://www.digitalconcerthall.com/en/interview/2459-2live|access-date=13 June 2021|website=Berliner Philharmoniker Digital Concert Hall}}{{Cite web|last=Roderic|first=Dunnett|date=12 October 2012|title=World needs room to breathe. Review: WELTETHOS, an 80-minute oratorio by Jonathan Harvey.|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2012/12-october/books-arts/visual-arts/world-needs-room-to-breathe|access-date=13 June 2021|website=Church Times, UK}}
  • John Adams – The Gospel According to the Other Mary (2012)
  • Colin Touchin – Choose the Light (2012, Coventry Mysteries Festival){{Cite web |url=https://composersalliance.com/composers/work.cfm?work=1132 |title=Colin Touchin – Choose the Light, Composer's Alliance |access-date=3 October 2022 |archive-date=27 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220927080932/https://www.composersalliance.com/composers/work.cfm?work=1132 |url-status=live }}
  • Philip Wilby – The Holy Face (2013, first performance 2017){{cite web |url=http://halifaxchoralsociety.co.uk/concerts#wp |title=Concerts (News) |publisher=Halifax Choral Society |access-date=21 September 2017 |archive-date=22 September 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922002306/http://halifaxchoralsociety.co.uk/concerts/#wp |url-status=live }}
  • Neil Hannon – To our Fathers' in Distress (2014){{cite web|url = https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/10/neil-hannon-fathers-alzheimers-inspiration-to-our-fathers-in-distress#_ga=2.164245631.1193667536.1637142292-120376048.1637142292|title = Neil Hannon: my father's Alzheimer's was the inspiration behind To Our Fathers in Distress|work = The Guardian|date = 10 March 2014|access-date = 17 November 2021|archive-date = 23 October 2021|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20211023025334/https://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/10/neil-hannon-fathers-alzheimers-inspiration-to-our-fathers-in-distress#_ga=2.164245631.1193667536.1637142292-120376048.1637142292|url-status = live}}
  • Ted Hearne – The Source (2014)
  • Julia Wolfe – Anthracite Fields (2014)
  • Jóhann Jóhannsson – Drone Mass (2015, "a contemporary oratorio")
  • Nico Muhly – Sentences (2015)
  • Mark Simpson – The Immortal (Bridgewater Hall, Manchester, 2015)[https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Mark-Simpson-The-Immortal/100621 The Immortal, Boosey & Hawkes]
  • Jonathan Dove – A Brief History of Creation (2016){{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jun/20/halle-elder-review-jonathan-dove-a-brief-history-of-creation|title=Hallé/Elder review – Jonathan Dove explains evolution … with singing galaxies|date=20 June 2016|website=the Guardian|accessdate=22 April 2022}}
  • Craig Hella Johnson – Considering Matthew Shepard (2016){{Cite web|url=https://www.berklee.edu/news/boston-media-discusses-how-hate-crime-becomes-musical-response-composer-craig-hella-johnson|title=Craig Hella Johnson on Turning Hate into Art | Berklee|website=www.berklee.edu|accessdate=22 April 2022}}
  • Peter Reulein and Helmut Schlegel – Laudato si' (2016)
  • Anthony Ritchie – Gallipoli to the Somme (2016){{Cite web|title=Gallipoli to the Somme – Pāho|url=https://humanities-research.otago.ac.nz/index.php/gallipoli-to-the-somme/|access-date=24 June 2021|website=University of Otago – Pāho|language=en-NZ|archive-date=4 May 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170504042604/https://humanities-research.otago.ac.nz/index.php/gallipoli-to-the-somme/|url-status=live}}
  • Thomas Gabriel – Bruder Martin (2017)
  • Jörg Widmann – Arche (2017)
  • Paul Moravec – Sanctuary Road (2018)
  • Roxanna Panufnik – Faithful Journey, a Mass for Poland (2018, fp. Katowice, 9/11/18)
  • Philip Sawyers – Mayflower on the Sea of Time (2018)
  • Julia Wolfe – Fire in my mouth (2018)
  • Bob Chilcott – Christmas Oratorio (Three Choirs Festival, 2019){{Cite web|url=https://seenandheard-international.com/2019/08/bob-chilcotts-attractive-new-oratorio-brings-christmas-early-to-gloucester/|title=Bob Chilcott's Attractive New Oratorio Brings Christmas Early to Gloucester – Seen and Heard International|website=seenandheard-international.com|accessdate=22 April 2022}}
  • Simon Franglen – The Birth of Skies and Earth (2019)
  • James MacMillan – A Christmas Oratorio (2019, fp. Amsterdam, 2021){{Cite web|url=https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/12-february/books-arts/music/music-review-christmas-oratorio-by-james-macmillan-amsterdam-premi%C3%A8re|title=Music review: Christmas Oratorio, by James MacMillan (Amsterdam première)|website=www.churchtimes.co.uk|accessdate=22 April 2022|archive-date=18 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211118040322/https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2021/12-february/books-arts/music/music-review-christmas-oratorio-by-james-macmillan-amsterdam-premi%C3%A8re|url-status=live}}
  • Caroline Shaw – The Listeners (2019){{cite news |last1=Rowe |first1=Georgia |title=Carl Sagan inspired a new oratorio for Philharmonia Baroque |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/16/carl-sagan-inspired-a-new-oratorio-for-philharmonia-baroque/ |access-date=10 December 2019 |publisher=The Mercury News |date=16 October 2019 |archive-date=19 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191019070636/https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/16/carl-sagan-inspired-a-new-oratorio-for-philharmonia-baroque/ |url-status=live }}
  • Wadada Leo Smith – Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs (2019){{Cite web|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wadada-leo-smith-rosa-parks-pure-love-an-oratorio-of-seven-songs/|title=Wadada Leo Smith: Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs|website=Pitchfork|accessdate=22 April 2022|archive-date=24 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124055225/https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wadada-leo-smith-rosa-parks-pure-love-an-oratorio-of-seven-songs/|url-status=live}}
  • Karin Rehnqvist – Silent Earth (2020, fp. 29 January 2022, Amsterdam){{Cite web |url=https://karin-rehnqvist.se/eng/then-it-finally-became-the-world-premiere-for-silent-earth/ |title='Then it finally became the world premiere for Silent Earth', composer's website, 29 January, 2022 |access-date=3 November 2022 |archive-date=3 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221103115653/https://karin-rehnqvist.se/eng/then-it-finally-became-the-world-premiere-for-silent-earth/ |url-status=live }}
  • Daniel Knaggs – Two Streams/Dwa Zdroje, (Houston, TX September 9, 2021; Polish version: Torun, Poland October 16, 2021)
  • Peter Reulein and Bernhard Kießig – Eins (2021){{Cite web|url=https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/oratorium-eins-von-peter-reulein-und-bernhard-kiessig-17337519.html|title=Oratorium "Eins": Ein Gott, ein Glaube, eine Taufe|first=Guido|last=Holze|accessdate=22 April 2022|via=www.faz.net|archive-date=10 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220110063425/https://www.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/kultur/oratorium-eins-von-peter-reulein-und-bernhard-kiessig-17337519.html|url-status=live}}
  • Dwight Bigler – Mosaic for Earth (April 2022){{Cite web |title=Permissions |url=https://www.mosaicforearth.org/permissions |access-date=24 November 2023 |website=Mosaic for Earth |language=en-US |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124003444/https://www.mosaicforearth.org/permissions |url-status=live }}
  • Luke Styles – Voices of Power (Three Choirs Festival, fp 28 July 2022)
  • Kate Whitley – Our Future In Your Hands (Buxton Festival, fp 10 July 2022)
  • Julia Wolfe – Her Story (Nashville, 15 September 2022)
  • Stefan Klaverdal – Vid Porten (At the Gate), (fp. Lund Cathedral, 16 October 2023)
  • Aaron Zigman – Émigré (Shanghai, 17 November 2023)
  • Patrick Hawes - The Son of Man (Houston, 21 September 2024)https://www.patrickhawes.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Screenshot-2024-10-07-at-15.02.43.png {{Bare URL image|date=June 2025}}

See also

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