page_title: List of oratorios
section_title: 18th century
hierarchical_section_title: List of oratorios / 18th century
context_page_description: This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 16th century to the present. Unless otherwise indicated, all dates are those when the work was first performed. In some cases only the date of composition is known. In others, the oratorio has only been performed on a recording.
context_section_description: George Frideric Handel  – Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno 1707
  George Frideric Handel  – La resurrezione 1708
  Francesco Maria Veracini – Il trionfo della innocenza da S Niccolò ?1712
  George Frideric Handel  – Brockes Passion 1715
  Francesco Maria Veracini – Mosè al mar rosso, ovvero Il naufragio di Faraone ?1715; revised as La liberazione del popolo ebreo nel naufragio di Faraone 1723
  Antonio Vivaldi – Juditha triumphans 1716
  Francesco Maria Veracini – L'incoronazione di Davidde 1717
  Francesco Maria Veracini – La caduta del savio nell’idoltria di Salomone 1720
  Jan Dismas Zelenka – Sub olea pacis et palma virtutis 1723
  Johann Sebastian Bach – St John Passion 1724
  Francesco Maria Veracini – L'empietà distrutta nella caduta di Gerico 1724
  Johann Sebastian Bach – Easter Oratorio  1725
  Johann Sebastian Bach – St Matthew Passion 1727
  George Frideric Handel  – Esther 1732
  George Frideric Handel  – Athalia 1733
  George Frideric Handel  – Deborah 1733
  Johann Adolph Hasse – Il cantico de' tre fanciulli 1734
  Johann Sebastian Bach  – Christmas Oratorio 1734
  Johann Sebastian Bach  – Ascension Oratorio 1735
  George Frideric Handel  – Alexander's Feast 1736
  George Frideric Handel  – Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verità 1737
  Johann Adolph Hasse – Le virtù appiè della croce  1737
  George Frideric Handel  – Israel in Egypt 1738
  George Frideric Handel  – Saul 1739
  George Frideric Handel  – L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato 1740
  Johann Adolph Hasse – Serpentes ignei in deserto 1740
  George Frideric Handel  – Messiah 1741
  George Frideric Handel  – Samson 1741
  Johann Adolph Hasse – Giuseppe riconosciuto 1741
  Johann Adolph Hasse – I pellegrini al sepolcro di Nostro Signore 1742
  George Frideric Handel  – Joseph and his Brethren 1743
  George Frideric Handel  – Semele 1743
  George Frideric Handel  – Hercules 1744
  Francesco Maria Veracini – L'errore di Salomone 1744
  Johann Adolph Hasse – Ci'l un parantê und parsol scelopgrini 1744
  George Frideric Handel  – Belshazzar 1745
  Johann Adolph Hasse –  La Caduta di Gerico 1745
  George Frideric Handel  – Judas Maccabaeus 1746
  George Frideric Handel  – Occasional Oratorio 1746
  George Frideric Handel  – Joshua 1747
  Johann Adolph Hasse –  Santa Elena al Calvario 1747
  George Frideric Handel  – Alexander Balus 1748
  George Frideric Handel  – Solomon 1748
  George Frideric Handel  – Susanna 1748
  George Frideric Handel  – Theodora 1749
  George Frideric Handel  – The Choice of Hercules 1750
  Johann Adolph Hasse –  La conversione di Sant' Agostino  1750
  George Frideric Handel  – Jephtha 1752
  George Frideric Handel  – The Triumph of Time and Truth 1757
  Johann Adolph Hasse – S. Petrus et S. Maria Magdalena 1759
  Thomas Arne – Judith 1761
  Georg Philipp Telemann – Der Tag des Gerichts 1762
  George Frideric Handel  – Nabal 1764
  John Worgan  – Hannah 1764
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  – Die Schuldigkeit des ersten Gebots 1767 (Only the first part)
  Francesco Maria Veracini – L'Assalone, ovvero L'infedelta punita before 1768
  Samuel Arnold  – Abimelech 1768
  George Frideric Handel  – Gideon 1769
  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – Die Israeliten in der Wüste 1769
  Joseph Haydn  – Il ritorno di Tobia 1775
  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  – Davide penitente 1785
  Joseph Haydn – The Seven Last Words of Christ 1796
  Joseph Haydn – The Creation 1798
caption: First edition of Vivaldi's  Juditha triumphans, the only one of his four oratorios to have survived
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