Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

Brubeck's disbanding of the Quartet at the end of 1967 allowed him more time to compose the longer, extended orchestral and choral works that were occupying his attention ( to say nothing of Brubeck's desire to spend more time with his family ).

The Latviju dainas are extensively used in the classical choral works of Andrejs Jurāns, Jānis Cimze, and Emilis Melngailis.

As Alexander's Feast ( 1736 ) was well received, Handel made a transition to English choral works.

His best-known works include Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), On the Transmigration of Souls ( 2002 ), a choral piece commemorating the victims of the September 11, 2001 attacks ( for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 2003 ), and Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), a minimalist four-movement work for strings.

In addition to electronic music — both with and without live performers — they range from miniatures for musical boxes through works for solo instruments, songs, chamber music, choral and orchestral music, to a cycle of seven full-length operas.

As well as the works already mentioned, his compositions include four operas, eight symphonies and other orchestral pieces, a variety of instrumental concertos, choral settings of mainly religious texts, as well as chamber and instrumental works.

Schickele has composed more than 100 original works for symphony orchestra, choral groups, chamber ensemble, voice, film ( e. g. Silent Running, and animated adaptations of Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen ), and television.

Telemann wrote choral cantatas for Frankfurt ( later published in solo versions as the Harmonische Gottesdienst ) and Graupner cycles for Darmstadt, but Johann Sebastian Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ) made a truly monumental contribution: his obituary mentions five complete cycles of his cantatas, of which three, comprising some 200 works, are known today, in addition to motets.

Mozart's choral works, though not as numerous as his works for other media, stand out as some of his greatest ( such as the " Great " Mass in C minor and Requiem in D minor, the latter of which is often considered the greatest Requiem Mass of all time ).

Serial music is represented by choral works by Arnold Schoenberg, including the anthem " Dreimal Tausend Jahre ," while the composer's signature use of sprechstimme is evident in his psalm " De Profundis.

The large scale dramatic works of Karl Jenkins seem to hearken back to the theatricality of Orff, and the music of James MacMillan continues the tradition of boundary-pushing choral works from the United Kingdom begun by Britten, Walton, and Leighton.

* Art of the States-information and free recordings of several choral works

In addition to his symphonies, Bruckner wrote masses, motets and other sacred choral works, and a few chamber works, including a string quintet.

Unlike his romantic symphonies, some of Bruckner's choral works are often conservative and contrapuntal in style ; however, the Te Deum, Helgoland, Psalm 150 and at least one Mass demonstrate innovative and radical uses of chromaticism.

The term cantata came to be applied almost exclusively to choral works, as distinguished from solo vocal music.

Other cantatas, Beethoven's Meeresstille, works of Brahms and many notable small English choral works, such as cantatas of John Henry Maunder and John Stanley, find various ways to set poetry to choral music.

* The Australian composer Nigel Butterley set the verse in his 2008 choral work " Beni Avshalom ", commissioned by the Sydney Chamber Choir

Steven Suskin wrote: The " fascinating extended musical scenes, with extended choral work, ... immediately marked Sondheim as the most distinctive theatre composer of his time.

The symphony was the first example of a major composer using voices in a symphony ( thus making it a choral symphony ).

The Italian composer Luigi Dallapiccola used some of the text in his choral work Canti di prigionia ( 1938 ).

An example is the 40-part choral motet Love You Big as the Sky by British composer Peter McGarr ( commissioned for the Tallis Festival 2007 ).

* The British composer Granville Bantock produced a choral setting of FitzGerald's translation 1906-1909.

David's life and teachings have inspired a choral work by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, Dewi Sant.

* September 26 – William Billings, American choral composer ( b. 1746 )

His Symphony No. 9 takes the unprecedented step ( for a symphony ) of including parts for vocal soloists and choir in the last movement, making it a choral symphony ( however, a minor composer, Daniel Steibelt had written a piano concerto with a choral finale four years earlier, in 1820 ).

* Michael Howard ( musician ) ( 1922 – 2002 ), English choral conductor, organist and composer

* Richard Harrison Smith ( born 1937 ), choral conductor, arranger and composer

As a composer of choral lyrics, Bacchylides was probably responsible also for the performance, involving him in frequent travel to venues where musicians and choirs awaited instruction.

Britten's interests as a composer were wide-ranging ; he produced important music in such varied genres as orchestral, choral, solo vocal ( much of it written for his life partner, tenor Peter Pears ), chamber and instrumental, as well as film music.

* In Flanders Fields, choral piece by composer Bradley Nelson, commissioned by Fresno State Chamber Singers and Chico State Chamber Singers of California State University

He emerged as a soloist from this choral tradition, largely as a result of the admiration of the composer Michael Tippett, who heard him while at Canterbury and recognized the unique beauty of his voice.

* American choral music composer Mark Daniel Merritt ( 1961 -) lived in Noank during his childhood.

* Malcolm Dalglish, hammered dulcimer player, composer, and choral director

The Morgan State University Choir was led for more than three decades by the late Dr. Nathan Carter, celebrated conductor, composer, and arranger, is one of the nation ’ s most prestigious university choral ensembles.

* Jester Hairston, composer, choral conductor and actor

" He used musical themes to represent specific characters ; in this manner he more closely followed the practice of French composer Hector Berlioz in his choral symphony Roméo et Juliette than that of Liszt.

His major choral work Summer's Last Will and Testament ( after the play of the same name by Thomas Nashe ), one of his most emotionally dark works, proved unfashionable in the mood following the death of George V, but Alan Frank hailed it at the time as Lambert's " finest work ".< ref > Lambert himself considered he had failed as a composer, and completed only two major works in the remaining sixteen years of his life.

The Ukrainian carol most known to the Western World is the Carol of the Bells, composed by the Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, and premiered on December 1916 by a choral group made up of students at Kiev University.

The hymn was set to music in 1865 by the Corfiot operatic composer Nikolaos Mantzaros, who composed two choral versions, a long one for the whole poem and a short one for the first two stanzas ; the latter is the one adopted as the National Anthem of Greece.

In his time, he was known primarily as a choral composer.