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.

First page of the first part of Bach's Christmas Oratorio (1734)

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.[1]

16th century

17th century
A recently discovered portrait, inscribed by the artist as representing Charpentier, but dating circa 1750,[2] about 40 years after his death.
  • Pietro della Valle – Oratorio della Purificatione (1640, the earliest documented use of the word "oratorio" to describe a musical composition)[3]
  • Cornelis Thymenszoon Padbrué – De tranen Petri ende Pauli (published 1647, only partial score survives)[4]
  • Giacomo Carissimi – Jephte (before 16 June 1648)[5][6]
  • 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
The final bars of the "Hallelujah" chorus, from Handel's Messiah, original manuscript

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
Everyman, Henry Walford Davies. Vocal score issued by Novello, 1904
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

See also

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