Catulli Carmina is a cantata by Carl Orff to the texts of Catullus.

He was given a commission to write a cantata entitled " The German Resurrection ", which, after 1945, was taken by many as a reason to brand him as having been tainted by Nazi sympathy.

In 1880, Sullivan wrote the cantata The Martyr of Antioch, presented at the Leeds Triennial Music Festival, with a libretto modified by Gilbert from an 1822 epic poem by Henry Hart Milman concerning the martyrdom of St. Margaret of Antioch in the 3rd century.

In Search of the Pharaohs is a 30-minute cantata for narrator, junior choir and piano by composer Robert Steadman, commissioned by the City of London Freemen's School, which uses extracts from Carter's diaries as its text.

Thus the ceremony held at the site of the demolished Bastille, organized by the foremost artistic director of the Revolution, Jacques-Louis David, in August 1793 to mark the inauguration of the new republican constitution, an event coming shortly after the final abolition of all forms of feudal privilege, featured a cantata based on Rousseau's democratic pantheistic deism as expounded in the celebrated " Profession de foi d ' un vicaire savoyard " in Book Four of Émile.

This work began in 1936 as a cantata for alto solo and orchestra, loosely based on a few select poems by Walt Whitman.

** Chaplin-Ford-Trott, ' scenic jazz cantata ' ( unfinished ; completed by Wilfried Hiller )

* Giovanna d ' Arco, cantata, by Rossini

The motet Sei Lob und Preis mit Ehren ( BWV 231 ) is spurious ; it is part of a cantata by Telemann.

Laboulaye arranged events designed to appeal to the rich and powerful, including a special performance at the Paris Opera on April 25, 1876, that featured a new cantata by composer Charles Gounod.

* Spring ( Rachmaninoff ), a single-movement cantata written by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1902

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

The work remained popular, becoming the most frequently printed work of the 18th century, and being arranged by a number of other composers, including Johann Sebastian Bach, who used it as the basis for his cantata Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden ( Root out my sins, Highest One ), BWV 1083.

A cantata consisted first of a declamatory narrative or scene in recitative, held together by a primitive aria repeated at intervals.

With the rise of the da capo aria, the cantata became a group of two or three arias joined by recitative.

It is preceded by three symphonic movements, a device avowedly suggested by Beethoven's ninth symphony ; but the analogy is not accurate, as Beethoven's work is a symphony of which the fourth movement is a choral finale of essentially single design, whereas Mendelssohn's Symphony Cantata is a cantata with three symphonic preludes.

In 1940, the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos created a secular cantata titled Mandu çarará, based on an Indian legend collected by Barbosa Rodrigues.

Still in 1871, Sullivan composed a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea, for the opening of the London International Exhibition and the hymn Onward, Christian Soldiers, with words by Sabine Baring-Gould.

There is a cantata by the French Baroque composer André Campra telling the story of Arion

A cantata for children's choir & piano, ' Arion and the Dolphin ', by the English composer Philip Godfrey, was first performed in 2003.

His other works include a cantata, " Merch y Llyn " (" Lady of the Lake "), and a choral work, " He fell among thieves ", with words by Sir Henry Newbolt.

By 1993 he had composed eight string quartets, as well as works in many other genres, including the cantata, The Country Beyond the Stars, a setting of Henry Vaughan's poem.

* 1958 The Country Beyond the Stars, cantata after Henry Vaughan

John Henry Maunder ( February 21, 1858 – January 21, 1920 ) was an English composer and organist best known for his cantata " Olivet to Calvary ".

The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.

His best-known poems are the long title-poem of that collection, and the patriotic " The American Flag " which was set as a cantata for two soloists, choir and orchestra by the Czech composer Antonin Dvořák in 1892-93, as his Op.

Additionally, Crosby co-wrote popular secular songs, as well as political and patriotic songs, and at least five cantatas on biblical and patriotic themes, including The Flower Queen, the first secular cantata by an American composer.

Their first cantata was The Flower Queen ; The Coronation of the Rose, ( 1852 ), often described as " the first secular cantata written by an American ", an opera " in all but name ", described as a " popular operetta ", which " illustrated nineteenth-century American romanticism ".

American composer and commentator Deems Taylor wrote a cantata entitled The Chambered Nautilus in 1916.

During the last decade of his life he also wrote the cantata Vox Humana ( 1974, on texts by Latin American poets ), concertos for violin and orchestra ( 1977-78 ) and for viola and orchestra ( 1979 ), a twelfth symphony for mixed chorus and orchestra ( 1973 ) to poems by Pablo Neruda and a sixteenth symphony ( 1979 ) which features a bravura solo part for alto saxophone.

This 13-minute cantata to American democracy was written for a soloist and as well a full orchestra.

He was awarded first prize in the 1946 competition of the Federation of American Composers for his cantata The Singers, and in 1947 he received an award from the National Association of Negro Musicians.

The cantata was a reworking of an earlier composition, The Nativity Hymn, one of only four to receive honorable mention in 1879 in the Cincinnati College of Music competition, judged by the distinguished American conductor, Theodore Thomas.

* in 2005, American composer Karl W. Schindler wrote a multimedia cantata entitled Ghost Voices: Songs From a Cemetery, adapting many of the poems from Spoon River Anthology into the 32-minute work.

The American composer Alan Hovhaness used a text by Yamabe from the Man ' yōshū in his cantata Fuji, Op.

During his American soujourn, Arnell was the Music Supervisor for the BBC in North America, and was commissioned to compose ( to a text by Stephen Spender ) a cantata, The War God, in celebration of the opening of the United Nations, as well as a fanfare to greet Winston Churchill's arrival in New York.

In 1936 Havergal Brian singled out for praise a cantata, Holderneth, on a text by the American poet Edward Sweeney, which Cooke later withdrew.

* Philomel ( 1964 ) " cantata text " for the composition of the same name by American composer Milton Babbitt

French Baroque composer Michel Pignolet de Montéclair composed " Pan et Syrinx ", a cantata for voice & ensemble ( No 4 of Second livre de cantates ).

While Dieterich Buxtehude was a significant composer of such works, it was largely up to the next generation to undertake cantata cycles on texts for the entire church year.

Carl Orff ( – ) was a 20th-century German composer, best known for his cantata Carmina Burana ( 1937 ).

* Richard Strauss's standard repertory opera Ariadne auf Naxos was preceded by a L ' Arianna each by Claudio Monteverdi and Carlo Agostino Badia, by an opera Ariadne ( 1691 ) by German composer Johann Georg Conradi, and by non-operatic Ariadne auf Naxos works including a cantata based on the Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg poem and Jiri Antonin Benda's melodrama Ariadne auf Naxos ( Benda ), and by Joseph Haydn's cantata Arianna a Naxos.

The modest forces the cantata required meant it was a genre within the reach of a composer who was still unknown.

Lanier's poem " The Marshes of Glynn " is the inspiration for a cantata by the same name that was created by the modern English composer Andrew Downes to celebrate the Royal Opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham, England, in 1986.

The two most significant pieces of music in the film — the song, " Que Sera, Sera ( Whatever Will Be, Will Be )", and the Storm Clouds Cantata played in the Royal Albert Hall — are not by Herrmann ( although he did re-orchestrate the cantata by Australian-born composer Arthur Benjamin written for the earlier Hitchcock film of the same name ).

German audiences would prove more appreciative of his work ; a revised version of Cenerentola was a hit in Bremen in 1902, while the cantata La vita nuova brought the young composer international fame.

Trionfo di Afrodite ( Italian, literally Triumph of Aphrodite ) is a cantata called " concerto scenico " ( scenic concert ) written in 1951 by the German composer Carl Orff.

A prolific composer, Herbert produced two operas, a cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 plays, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions and numerous songs, choral compositions and orchestrations of works by other composers, among other music.

Herbert was a prolific composer, producing two operas, one cantata, 43 operettas, incidental music to 10 stage productions, 31 compositions for orchestra, nine band compositions, nine cello compositions, five violin compositions with piano or orchestra, 22 piano compositions, one flute and clarinet duet with orchestra, numerous songs, including many for the Ziegfeld Follies, and other works, 12 choral compositions, and numerous orchestrations of works by other composers, among other compositions.

Other works from this decade include Cyclops 2000 for Oliver Knussen and the London Sinfonietta ; Ashberyana, settings of poetry by John Ashbery ; Spin5, a chamber concerto for violinist Jennifer Koh ; the Fourth Piano Sonata, for Anne-Marie McDermott ; Synaxis ; Metagong ; and It Happens Like This, a dramatic cantata on seven poems by James Tate premiered at Tanglewood with the composer conducting.

The argentine composer Mauricio Annunziata, taking possession of the Montenegrin culture, religion and music, produced the cantata Akatist Op.

A child prodigy, Erich played his cantata Gold to Gustav Mahler in 1906 ; Mahler called him a " musical genius " and recommended study with composer Alexander von Zemlinsky.

Longfellow's poem was the basis for a cantata trilogy, The Song of Hiawatha ( 1898 – 1900 ), by the African-English composer Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

In April 1912, Boulanger made her debut as a conductor, leading the Société des Matinées Musicales orchestra in her 1908 cantata La Sirène, two of her songs and then Pugno's Concertstück for piano and orchestra with the composer as soloist.