The premiere of Mascagni's first cantata, In Filanda, took place at the Istituto Cherubini on February 9, 1881.

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

Musical settings of pastoral poetry became increasingly common in first polyphonic and then monodic madrigals: these later led to the cantata and the serenata, in which pastoral themes remained on a consistent basis.

He became close friends with Luigi Cardinal Chiaramonte, the man who would become Pope Pius VII, after singing a cantata sometime in his teenage years.

* Pinotta ( 23 March 1932 Casinò, San Remo ), adapted from the cantata In filanda ( 1881 )

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.

Schmidt's last work, the cantata " German Resurrection ," was composed to a Nazi text.

His failure to complete the cantata may be a further indication that he was not committed to the Nazi cause.

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.

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 cantata was presented at a musical contest in Milan and won the first prize.

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.

One such was the daughter of a friend, called Louise ; in his grief he is believed to have written the cantata " Entsagen " ( Renunciation ).

The meaning of the term changed over time, from the simple single voice madrigal of the early 17th century, to the multi-voice " cantata da camera " and the " cantata da chiesa " of the later part of that century, from the more substantial dramatic forms of the 18th century ( including the 200-odd church and secular cantatas of Johann Sebastian Bach ) to the usually sacred-texted 19th-century cantata, which was effectively a type of short oratorio.

From the beginning of the 17th century until late in the 18th, the cantata for one or two solo voices with accompaniment of basso continuo ( and perhaps a few solo instruments ) was a principal form of Italian vocal chamber music.

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

" I was finishing my cantata when the revolution broke out ", he recorded in his Mémoires, " I dashed off the final pages of my orchestral score to the sound of stray bullets coming over the roofs and pattering on the wall outside my window.

On his return to Paris, the recently completed La damnation de Faust was premiered at the Opéra-Comique, but after two performances, the run was discontinued and the work was a popular failure ( perhaps owing to its halfway status between opera and cantata ), despite receiving generally favourable critical reviews.

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

The Aldeburgh Festival was duly launched in June 1948, with Albert Herring playing at the Jubilee Hall and Britten ’ s new cantata for tenor, chorus and orchestra, Saint Nicolas, in the Parish Church.

Before his departure for Rome in December 1857, Bizet's prize cantata was performed at the Académie to an enthusiastic reception.

* 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.

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.

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

* 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 ).

* 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 )

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.

A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata, or musical.

A ceremonial cantata, Algers, for Napoleon III on the theme of Algiers, brought him to official attention ; a collaboration with Léon Minkus resulted, in which his contribution of an act's worth of musical numbers for a ballet La source ( 1866 ) brought him into the milieu of ballet.

The inauguration on April 4, 1847, presented a mixed program including the premieres of José Melchor Gomis ' musical ouverture, a historical play Don Fernando de Antequera by Ventura de la Vega, the ballet La rondeña ( The girl from Ronda ) by Josep Jurch, and a cantata Il regio himene with music by the musical director of the theatre Marià Obiols.

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.

The idea of different groups singing in alternation gradually evolved into the concertato style, which in its different instrumental and vocal manifestations eventually led to such diverse musical ideas as the chorale cantata, the concerto grosso, and the sonata.

His best-known pieces include the Pulitzer-winning, Shakespeare-inspired Tempest Fantasy, a 30-minute chamber work scored for clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano, which was premiered on May 2, 2003 at the Morgan Library in New York City by David Krakauer and Trio Solisti, for whom it was written ; Northern Lights Electric, a 1994 work that combines a musical illustration of the Northern Lights with a musical depiction of electric light ; and the 1998 cantata Fire / Ice / Air, which contrasts the journeys of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, on his expedition to the Antarctic, and Charles Lindbergh, on his trans-Atlantic flight.

In 1938, at the age of twenty, Garayev composed his first musical piece, a cantata " The Song of the Heart " to the poem by Rasul Rza.

Françaix wrote pieces in many of the major large musical forms, including concerti, symphonies, opera, theatre, ballet, and works drawing on traditions falling out of favor in the 20th century, such as the cantata.

The cantata has a text by the author Iben Krogsdal based on the story of Saint Cecilia who died in a gruesome way for her Christian faith, and has been described as " moderate modernism " with a special " Danish tone " and a transparent chamber musical instrumentation.

Film composer Basil Poledouris, in his score for Conan the Barbarian ( 1982 ) was influenced by various other musical works, including Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata ( 1938 ), the choral music of Carl Orff, such as Carmina Burana ( 1937 ), and this piece.