Salieri and Mozart even composed a cantata for voice and piano together, called Per la ricuperata salute di Ophelia, which celebrated the return to stage of the singer Nancy Storace.

But two years before this he had already received the prize at the Conservatorio of Bologna for his cantata Il pianto d ' Armonia sulla morte d ’ Orfeo.

For example, in Il Barbiere there is an aria for the Count ( often omitted ) " Cessa di più resistere ", which Rossini used ( with minor changes ) in the cantata Le Nozze di Teti e di Peleo and in La Cenerentola ( the cabaletta for Angelina's rondo is almost unchanged ).

His early major works for the voice included The Masque at Kenilworth ( 1864 ); an oratorio, The Prodigal Son ( 1869 ); and a dramatic cantata, On Shore and Sea ( 1871 ).

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.

Kenilworth spawned " numerous stage adaptations and burlesques, at least eleven operas, popular redactions, and even a scene in a set of dioramas for home display ", including Sir Arthur Sullivan's 1865 cantata The Masque at Kenilworth.

Some of his notable compositions include the series of nineteen Klavierstücke ( Piano Pieces ), Kontra-Punkte for ten instruments, the electronic / musique-concrète Gesang der Jünglinge, Gruppen for three orchestras, the percussion solo Zyklus, Kontakte, the cantata Momente, the live-electronic Mikrophonie I, Hymnen, Stimmung for six vocalists, Aus den sieben Tagen, Mantra for two pianos and electronics, Tierkreis, Inori for soloists and orchestra, and the gigantic opera cycle Licht.

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

Although the film had a very poor sound recording, Prokofiev adapted much of his score into a large-scale cantata for mezzo-soprano, orchestra and chorus, which was extensively performed and recorded.

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

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.

* March 24 Premiere performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Funeral cantata Klagt, Kinder, klagt es aller Welt, BWV 244a before midday at the St. James Church, Köthen ( for the same event as above ).

The cantata In Filanda became Pinotta, and was proposed for the musical contest of the Conservatorio, but the registration, being late, was not accepted.

* A Giacomo Leopardi, cantata for voice ( soprano ) and orchestra ( June 19, 1898, Teatro Persiani, Recanati )

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.

He briefly travelled to Russia in July 1914 to collect research materials for his dance cantata Les noces before returning to Switzerland, just before the national borders closed following the outbreak of World War I.

When the Nazis placed Stravinsky's works on the list of " Entartete Musik ", he lodged a formal appeal to establish his Russian genealogy and declared, " I loathe all communism, Marxism, the execrable Soviet monster, and also all liberalism, democratism, atheism, etc .." Towards the end of his life, at Craft's behest, Stravinsky made a return visit to his native country and composed a cantata in Hebrew, travelling to Israel for its performance.

* Antonio Caldara " Medea in Corinto " ( cantata for alto, 2 violins and basso continuo, 1711 )

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.

The style is most often used in preludes to suites, and can be found in non-staged vocal works such as cantatas, for example in the opening chorus of Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61.

The project featured a cantata, ' Y Dyn Unig ' ( The Lonely Man ), composed by Andrew Powell, with libretto by Menna Elfyn, for tenor, harp, mixed choir, children's chorus and brass band.

He wrote the words for comic operas such as Three's Company and Christmas Story, and a children's cantata Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo.

In 1971, he composed the motion picture score for Such Good Friends, directed by Otto Preminger, and in 1974, he wrote a children's cantata, In the Night Kitchen, with Maurice Sendak.

* L ' Ocell daurat, cantata for children's choir ( 1970 )

The Christmas cantata A newborn child, before eternity, God !, with text from a kontakion by the 6th century hymnographer Romanos the Melodist ( translated into Danish by the priest Kristian Høeg ) was given its first performance in 1996, commissioned by Kulturby 96 – the European Capital of Culture 1996, and was released on CD in 1997, as recorded in Messiaskirken in Charlottenlund with the soloists Ingibjörg Gudjonsdottir, soprano, Elisabeth Halling, alto, Gert Henning-Jensen, tenor, Christian Christiansen, bass, two mixed choirs, two children's choirs, brass band, organ and percussion, conducted by Steen Lindholm.

* Jean-Marie Morel ( 1934 -), a small cantata set for children's choir and string quartet in La Fontaine en chantant ( 1999 )

A cantata ( literally " sung ", derived from the Italian word " cantare ") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.

The cantata is scored for alto, a four part choir only for the closing chorale, two oboes, taille ( tenor oboe ), two violins, viola, organ obbligato and basso continuo.

The cantata is intimately scored for soprano, alto, tenor and bass soloists, choir and a small orchestra of two violins, bassoon obbligato, and basso continuo.

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.

Another important choral work is the cantata Hymnus amoris ( 1896 ), a beautiful composition for choir and orchestra.

In 1997, the boys ' choir celebrated its 70th year with the premiere performance of Joseph Fitzmartin's cantata Ich möcht ' ein Clown sein (" I would like to be a clown ", text by Hanns Dieter Hüsch ).

The second Root-Crosby cantata was Daniel, or the Captivity and Restoration, based on the Old Testament story of Daniel, that was composed in 1853 for Root's choir at the Mercer Street Presbyterian Church in Manhattan.

Indeed, following the success of The Deluge, Goehr was commissioned a new cantata, Sutter's Gold for choir, baritone and orchestra.

After 1603, a basso continuo was added to the already considerable forces at San Marco — orchestra, soloists, choir — a further step towards the Baroque cantata.

* Der erste Frühlingstag ( The First Spring Day ), cantata for solo, choir and orchestra, Op.

* 1995: Revelation, cantata, for choir and ensemble

* 2003: The Dormition of the Virgin, cantata for soloists, choir and ensemble

* Acropolis, a cantata for choir and orchestra ( 1964 )-commissioned for the 600th anniversary of Jagiellonian University.

* Die erste Walpurgisnacht ( First Walpurgis Night ), a cantata for choir and orchestra by Felix Mendelssohn

The cantata is festively scored for soprano, tenor, and bass soloists, a four-part choir, two horns, two oboe da caccia, two violins obbligato, viola and basso continuo.

The cantata is scored for three soloists, alto, tenor, and bass, a four-part choir, corno da tirarsi, a slide horn that Bach scored for a short period, flauto traverso, two oboes d ' amore, two violins, viola and basso continuo.

* Lob der Torheit ( burlesque cantata by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ), for solo, choir and large orchestra ( 1947 )

The cantata is scored for horn, 2 oboes, taille ( an instrument similar to the oboe da caccia, today often replaced by an English horn ), violino piccolo, violin, viola, basso continuo, and choir with soprano, tenor, and bass soloists.

" Christmas cantata, for brass band, choir, soloists, organ and percussion ( 1996 )

He also composed psalm chants, hymn tunes, and a cantata, The Prodigal Son, for choir and chamber orchestra.