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In 1940, the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos created a secular cantata titled Mandu çarará, based on an Indian legend collected by Barbosa Rodrigues.
Igor Stravinsky composed a work titled simply Cantata in 1951 – 52, which used stanzas from the 15th-century " Lyke-wake Dirge " as a narrative frame for other anonymous English lyrics, and later designated A Sermon, a Narrative, and a Prayer ( 1961 ) as " a cantata for alto and tenor soli, speaker, chorus, and orchestra ".
Hans Werner Henze composed a Cantata della fiaba estrema and Novae de infinito laudes ( both in 1963 ), as well as a number of other works that might be regarded as cantatas, such as Kammermusik ( 1958, rev.
Momente ( 1962 – 64 / 1969 ), one of the most important works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, is often described as a cantata.
Benjamin Britten composed at least six works he designated as cantatas: The Company of Heaven ( 1937 ), Rejoice in the Lamb, op.
37 ( 1971 ), and Gottfried von Einem composed in 1973 An die Nachgeborenen based on diverse texts, the title taken from a poem of Bertolt Brecht.
Herbert Blendinger's Media in vita was premiered in 1980, his Mich ruft zuweilen eine Stille ( Sometimes a silence calls me ) in ( 1992 ), and Allein den Betern kann es noch gelingen ( It can only be achieved by those who pray ) in 1995.
Cantatas were also composed by Mark Alburger, Erik Bergman, Carlos Chávez, Osvald Chlubna, Peter Maxwell Davies, Norman Dello Joio, Lukas Foss, Roy Harris, Arthur Honegger, Alan Hovhaness, Dmitry Kabalevsky, Libby Larsen, Peter Mennin, Dimitri Nicolau, Krzysztof Penderecki, Daniel Pinkham, Earl Robinson, Ned Rorem, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Siegfried Strohbach, Michael Tippett, and Kurt Weill.
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