Chapter XIII: Appendix

The following chronological list is intended to present to the reader a statement of the more important sacred music which has been written during the last two centuries, with its composers and dates, for the purposes of reference.

Allegri
Miserere (1630).
Arne
Abel (1755);
Judith (1764).
Bach
St. John Passion (1720);
Magnificat in D (1723);
St. Matthew Passion (1729);
Christmas Oratorio (1734).
Barnby
Rebekah (1870).
Beethoven
Mount of Olives (1799-1801);
Mass in C (1807);
Mass in D (1822).
Benedict
St. Cecilia (1866);
St. Peter (1870).
Bennett
Woman of Samaria (1867).
Berlioz
Grande Messe des Morts (1837);
L'Enfance du Christ (1854).
Brahms
German Requiem (1868).
Costa
Eli (1855);
Naaman (1864).
Cusins
Gideon (1871).
Crotch
Palestine (1812);
Captivity of Judah (1834).
David
Moses on Sinai (1846).
Dvorak
Stabat Mater (1875).
Goldschmidt
Ruth (1867).
Gounod
Messe Solenelle (1850);
Tobie (1870);
Redemption (1883);
Mors et Vita (1885).
Graun
The Death of Jesus (1755);
Prague Te Deum (1756).
Handel
First Passion Oratorio (1704);
La Resurrezione (1708);
Il trionfo del Tempo (1708);
Utrecht Te Deum (1713);
Second Passion Oratorio (1716);
Esther (1720);
Deborah (1733);
Athalia (1733);
Saul (1738);
Israel in Egypt (1738);
Messiah (1741);
Samson (1742);
Joseph (1743);
Dettingen Te Deum (1743);
Belshazzar (1744);
Occasional Oratorio (1745);
Judas Maccabaeus (1746);
Alexander Balus (1747);
Joshua (1747);
Solomon (1748);
Susanna (1748);
Theodora (1749);
Jephtha (1751).
Haydn
Stabat Mater (1771);
Return of Tobias (1774);
Mariazeller Mass (1782);
Imperial Mass (1797);
The Creation (1796-98);
Te Deum (1800);
The Seasons (1800);
The Seven Words (1801).
Hiller
The Destruction of Jerusalem (1839).
Horsley
Gideon (1860).
Kiel
Requiem (1862);
Christus (1866).
Klein
Job (1820);
Jephthah (1828);
David (1830).
Lassus
Penitential Psalms (1565);
Vigiliae Mortuorum (1565).
Leslie
Immanuel (1853);
Judith (1858).
Liszt
Graner Mass (1854);
Hungarian Coronation Mass (1856);
Legend of Saint Elizabeth (1864);
Christus (1866).
Macfarren
John the Baptist (1873);
The Resurrection (1876);
Joseph (1877).
Mackenzie
Rose of Sharon (1884).
Marx
Moses (1850).
Massenet
Mary Magdalen (1873);
Eve (1875);
The Virgin (1879).
Mendelssohn
Psalm cxv (1830);
Psalm xcv (1835);
St. Paul (1836);
Hymn of Praise (1840);
Elijah (1838-46);
Christus (1844-47);
Lauda Sion (1846).
Meyerbeer
God and Nature (1811).
Mozart
Coronation Mass (1779);
Mass in C (1780);
Mass in G (1785);
Mass in B (1791);
Ave Verum (1791);
Requiem (1791).
Neukomm
Mount Sinai (1830);
David (1834).
Ouseley
St. Polycarp (1854);
Hagar (1873).
Paine
St. Peter (1873).
Palestrina
Papae Marcelli Mass (1563);
Stabat Mater (1589);
Requiem (1591).
Pergolesi
Stabat Mater (1736).
Pierson
Jerusalem (1852).
Randegger
Psalm cl (1872).
Reinthaler
Jephta (1856).
Rossini
Moses in Egypt (1818);
Stabat Mater (1832-41);
Messe Solenelle (1864).
Rubinstein
Tower of Babel (1870);
Paradise Lost (1876).
Schneider (Fr.)
The Judgement of the World (1819);
Paradise Lost (1824);
Pharaoh (1828);
Christ the Child (1829);
Gideon (1829);
Gethsemane and Golgotha (1838).
Schubert
Lazarus (1820).
Schumann
Paradise and the Peri (1843);
Advent Hymn (1848);
Mass and Requiem (1852).
Schutz
Passions' Music (1665).
Spohr
The Last Judgment (1812);
The Last Things (1826);
Calvary (1833);
Fall of Babylon (1840).
Stanford
The Three Holy Children (1885).
Sullivan
The Prodigal Son (1869);
Light of the World (1873);
Martyr of Antioch (1880).
Verdi
Manzoni Requiem (1874);
Pater Noster and Ave Maria (1880).
Vogler
Magnificat and Stabat Mater (1777).
Wagner
Das Liebesmahl der Apostel (1843).
Winter
Pilgrimage to Calvary (1792);
Stabat Mater (1805).

INDEX.

Ainsworth, Henry, 313.
Albrechtsberger, 239.
Allison, Richard, 312.
Appendix, 329.
Astorga, 253.
Athalia, 21.

Bach, 19-21, 24, 26, 30, 61, 65, 269, 275;
life of, 31.
Bailey, Daniel, 320.
Bailey, Thomas, 320.
Bay Psalm Book, 313, 314.
Beethoven, 23, 91, 161, 174, 218, 219, 235, 236, 282, 307;
life of, 51.
Belshazzar, 22.
Benedict, 205.
Bennett, Sterndale, 26, 200, 274, 290;
life of, 60.
Berlioz, 27, 30, 259;
life of, 68.
Billings, William, 321-326.
Blow, Dr., 30.
Bononcini, 17, 115.
Bradbury, 328.
Brahms, 27, 92, 272;
life of, 78.

Caldara, 17.
Carissimi, 15.
Cherubini, 27, 68, 71, 178.
Chopin, 258, 272.
Christmas Oratorio (Bach), 20, 33.
Christmas Oratorio (Saint-Saens), 269.
Christus (Liszt), 186.
Christus (Mendelssohn), 25, 229.
Cimarosa, 23.
Colonna, 17, 27.
Costa, 82.
Cotton, John, 314.
Creation, 136, 162.
Croft, Dr., 30.

Damon, William, 311.
Das juengste Gericht, 23, 283, 286.
Deborah, 21.
Der Tod Jesu, 20.
Des Heilands letzte Stunden, 24.
Dettingen Te Deum, 155.
Die Auferstehung Christi, 19.
Die Sieben Woerte Christi, 19.
Dutton, 327.
Dvorak, 253;
life of, 90.
Dyer, 328.

Eli, 84.
Elijah, 25, 218.
Eliot, John, 313, 318.
Emilio del Cavaliere, 14, 15.
Engedi, 58.
Esther, 21.

Fall of Babylon, 24.
Federici, 17.
Flagg, Josiah, 320.
French, Jacob, 327.
Fux, 22.

Gabrielli, 18.
German Requiem, 27, 80.
Gluck, 160.
Gould, Nathaniel D., 328.
Gounod, 15, 20, 26;
life of, 96.
Graun, 20, 30.
Gretry, 174.

Habeneck, 75, 76, 77.
Handel, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 30;
life of, 114.
Handel and Haydn Society, 327.
Hasse, 22.
Hastings, Thomas, 328.
Haydn, 19, 22, 23, 26, 28, 80, 136, 253, 307;
life of, 159.
Heine, 256, 257.
Hiller, 26, 70, 222, 256, 273.
Himmel, 23.
Holden, Oliver, 326.
Holyoke, Samuel, 326.
Hubbard, John, 327.
Hymn of Praise, 25, 213.

Israel in Egypt, 21, 23, 117.
Italian oratorio composers, 15
Ives, 328.

Joachim, 78, 92.
Johnson, 328.
Joseph, 22.
Joshua, 22, 154.
Judas Maccabaeus, 22, 149.

Keiser, Reinhard, 19, 20.

Kimball, Jacob, 326.

La Rappresentazione dell' Anima e del Corpo, 14.
Last Judgment, 23, 283.
Latimer, 310.
Law, Andrew, 326.
Legend of the Holy Elizabeth, 180.
Light of the World, 294.
Liszt, 78, 256, 258;
life of, 177.
Lyon, James, 320.

Macfarren, George A., 30;
life of, 199.
Mackenzie, 191.
Magnificat (Bach), 48.
Magnificats, 26, 30.
Martin Luther, 309.
Mason, Lowell, 328.
Massenet, 26.
Mattheson, 20.
Mazzocchi, 17.
Mendelssohn, 24, 25, 26, 30, 60, 256, 257;
life of, 206.
Messe des Morts, 27, 71.
Messiah, 21, 23, 25, 39, 140.
Meyerbeer, 83.
Mors et Vita, 26, 106.
Moscheles, 257, 271.
Mount of Olives, 23, 53.
Mozart, 30, 60, 282, 307;
life of, 234.
Mysteries and miracle-plays, 10, 11, 12.

Neukomm, 253.

Oratorio, its origin, 9;
in England, 21;
in Germany, 22;
oratorios of the present century, 23-26.

Paine, 26, 245.
Palestrina, 27, 28, 96, 253, 307.
Paradise and the Peri, 25, 273.
Paradise Lost, 26, 264.
Passion Music, 18, 19, 20.
Pistocchi, 17.
Playford's Psalms, 320.
Porpora, 22, 115, 160.
Prodigal Son, 292.
Protestant Psalmody, 309.
Psalmody in England, 310.
Puritan reforms, 310.

Ravenscroft Collection, 312.
Redemption, 26, 98.
Reed, Daniel, 327.
Remenyi, 78.
Requiem (Manzoni), 27, 303.
Requiem (Mozart), 236.
Requiems, 26, 27.
Rheinthaler, 26.
Richter, Jean Paul, 273.
Root, George F., 328.
Rose of Sharon, 192.
Rossini, 222, 303, 307;
life of, 251.
Rubinstein, 26;
life of, 258.

Sacred dramas, 13, 14.
Sacred Music in America, 309.
Saint-Saens, 26, 267.
Salieri, 23, 168, 177.
Samson, 22, 131.
Sarti, 30.
Saul, 21, 125.
Scarlatti, 16.
Schneider, 24.
Schubert, 23, 91, 273.
Schumann, 25, 60, 78, 79, 81;
life of, 271.
Schuetz, 18.
Seasons, 22, 170.
Sebastiani, 19.
Shaw, Oliver, 327.
Spohr, 23, 26, 52, 91;
life of, 280.
St. John Passion, 20.
St. John the Baptist, 201.
St. Matthew Passion, 20, 24, 39.
St. Paul, 25, 208.
St. Peter, 26, 246.
Stabat Mater (Dvorak), 28, 92.
Stabat Mater (Rossini), 28, 253.
Stabat Maters, 27.
Stephani, 18.
Sternhold and Hopkins, 311, 313.
Stradella, 16, 17.
Sullivan, 30, 290.
Swan, Timothy, 327.
Symmes, Thomas, 317.

Tansur and Williams, 320.
Te Deums, 28, 29.
Telemann, 20.
Thalberg, 258.
The Bleeding and Dying Jesus, 19.
Theile, 19.
Theodora, 22.
Thomas, Theodore, 80, 99, 192, 246, 269, 291.
Tower of Babel, 26, 260.
Tufts, John, 319.

Verdi, 256;
life of, 301.
Victor Hugo, 69, 178.
Vittoria, 27.
Von Buelow, 179, 307.

Wagner, 65, 83, 179, 186, 268, 282.
Walter, Thomas, 320.
Weber, 281.
Weniawski, 259.
Winter, 23.
Woman of Samaria, 26, 62.
Woodbury, 328.

Zingarelli, 23.

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THE AZTECS. Their History, Manners, and Customs. From the French of Lucien Biart. Authorized translation by J. L. Garner.

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Transcriber's Notes to the Electronic Edition

In the name "Dvorak", the caron over the "R" and the diacrit over the "V" have been omitted. On the other hand, an accent has been consistently applied to the "a". The publisher's catalog and ads were moved to the back of the book, and assigned arbitrary page numbers. In the original, they were not numbered. The (few) footnotes were moved to chapter ends; in the original they were in page footers.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Standard Oratorios, by George P. Upton