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).

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Cusins

Gideon (1871).

Crotch

Palestine (1812);

Captivity of Judah (1834).

David

Moses on Sinai (1846).

DvorÁk

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 MaccabÆus (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).

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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);

VigiliÆ 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

PapÆ Marcelli Mass (1563);

Stabat Mater (1589);

Requiem (1591).

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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).