List of oratorios

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 performed on a recording.

Page from the manuscript score of Handel's oratorio Messiah

16th century

17th century
  • Pietro della Valle – Oratorio della Purificatione 1640, the earliest documented use of the word "oratorio" to describe a musical composition[1]
  • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué – De tranen Petri ende Pauli published 1647 (only partial score survives)[2]
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Jephte before 16 June 1648[3][4]
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Baltazar mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Diluvium universale mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Dives malus mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Ezechias mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Jonas mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Abramo e Isacco mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Job mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Judicium extremum mid-17th century
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Judicium Salomonis before 1669
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Judith sive liberata H 391 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Canticum pro pace H 392 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Canticum in nativitatem Domini H 393 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In honorem Caecilliae, Valeriani et Tiburij canticum H 394 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Pour la fête de l'Epiphanie H 395 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Historia Esther H 396 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Cacillia virgo et martyr Octobre vocibus H 397 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Pestis Mediolanensis H 398 mid 1670s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Prélude pour Horrenda pastis H 398 a 1679
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Filius prodigus H 399 1680
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Prélude pour l'enfant prodigue H 399 a 1681-82
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – L'enfant prodigue H 399 b date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – L'enfant prodigue H 399 c date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Canticum in honorem Beatae Virginis Mariae... H 400 1680
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Extremum Dei judicium H 401 early 1680s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Sacrificium Abrahae H 402
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Symphonies ajustées au sacrifice d'Abraham 402 a date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le sacrifice d'Abraham H 402 b date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Mors Saülis et Jonathae H 403 early 1680s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Josue prélude H 404 a 1679
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Josue H 404 early 1680s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In resurrectione Domini Nostri Jesu Christi H 405 1681-82
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In circumcisione Domini / Dialogus inter angelum et pastores H 406 1682-83
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dialogus inter esurientem, sitientem et Christum H 407 1682-83
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Elévation H 408 1683
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In obitum augustissimae nec non piissime Gallorum regina lamentum H 409 1683
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Praelium Michaelis Archangeli factum in cocho cum dracone H 410 1683
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Caedes sanctorum innocentium H 411 1683-85
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Nuptiae sacrae H 412 1683-85
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Caecilia virgo et martyr H 413 1683-85
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H 414 1683-85
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Caecilia virgo et martyr H 415 1686
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Prologue de la Ste Cécile après l'ouverture : Harmonia coelistis H 415 a 1686-87
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In nativitatem Domini canticum H 416 late 1680s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dialogus inter Christum et homines H 417 early 1690s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In honorem Sancti Ludovici regis Galliae H 418 early 1690s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Pour Saint Augustin mourant H 419 late 1690s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dialogus inter angelos et pastores Judae in nativitatem Domini H 420 late 1690s
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – In nativitatem Domini Nostri Jesu Christi canticum H 421 1698-99
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Judicium Salomonis H 422 H 422 a 1702
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dialogus inter Magdalena et Jesu 2 vocibus Canto e Alto cum organo H 423 date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Le reniement de St Pierre H 424 date unknown
  • Marc-Antoine Charpentier – Dialogus inter Christum et peccatores H 425 H 425 a date unknown

18th century
First edition of Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans, the only one of his four oratorios to have survived

19th century
Worcester Cathedral, where Sullivan's The Prodigal Son premiered in 1869
Manuscript score of Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius, signed by Elgar and the performers of the premiere in 1900

20th century
The Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris, where John Adams's El Niño premiered in 2000

21st century
Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, where Jörg Widmann's Arche premiered in 2017
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See also

References
  1. 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).
  2. 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
  3. 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).
  4. Randel, Don M. (1996). "Carissimi, Giacomo", The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music, p. 136. Harvard University Press
  5. Shrock, Dennis (2009). Choral Repertoire, p. 458. Oxford University Press
  6. Lea-Scarlett, EJ (1974). Packer, Charles Sandys (Stuart Shipley) (1810–1883), Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 5, MUP
  7. Fauquet, Joël-Marie (ed.) (1999). Correspondance de César Franck, pp. 114; 300. Editions Mardaga
  8. Orr, N. Lee (2008). Dudley Buck, p. 98. University of Illinois Press
  9. Landon, Robert Tallant (1974). Willard Patton, Friend of Music and Musicians, p. 5, Minnesota Musicians of the Cultured Generation, University of Minnesota
  10. Simms, Bryan R. (2000). The Atonal Music of Arnold Schoenberg, 1908–1923, p. 169. Oxford University Press
  11. Ravas, Tammy, (2004). Peter Schickele: A Bio-Bibliography, p. 109. Greenwood
  12. Parthasarathy, Dhanya (10 July 2005). "Song across cultures". The Hindu. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
  13. Jayawardana, Ruwini (9 February 2011). "Buddha's life set to music" Archived 2012-07-29 at the Wayback Machine. Daily News. Retrieved 1 May 2013.
  14. "Concerts (News)". Halifax Choral Society. Retrieved 21 September 2017.
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