In Gregorian chant the Magnificat is sung according to the eight traditional psalm tones:
Composers, or collections of compositions, referring to or using all eight of the traditional Gregorian psalm tone settings of the Magnificat include the Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 (various composers), the 35 Magnificats by Palestrina, the Enchiridion utriusque musicae practicae by Georg Rhau, and Johann Pachelbel's Magnificat fugues.[3]
Apart from the Magnificat sung to the psalm tones, in Gregorian chant there are also the Magnificat antiphons or O Antiphons inspiring composers like Arvo Pärt.
In seventeenth century polyphony no other religious text, apart from the Mass Ordinary, was set more often than the Magnificat. Often only six out of twelve verses of the Magnificat were set in polyphony, performance alternating verses sung in polyphony and verses sung in monody according to the church tone. In such alternatim settings the even verses were chosen more often for setting in polyphony, because they contained the last verse of the doxology, so that the singing of the Magnificat ended with a piece in polyphony.[5]
From around 1600 such Magnificats are also composed for the organ, e.g. Jean Titelouze's 1626 Le Magnificat ou Cantique de la Vierge pour toucher sur l'orgue suivant les huit tons de l'Église (odd versets).
In the Baroque era the "cantata form" for religious compositions originated in Italy: like masses in the Neapolitan style, Magnificats could be set as a succession of self-contained sections in a variety of styles, choruses alternating with arias for solo singers.[6][7][8] Francesco Durante's 1752 Magnificat in A minor is an example of a composition in this style.
In Anglicanism a Magnificat is usually combined with a Nunc dimittis in an (Evening) Service, in which case the English translation of the text ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") is used. For example, Orlando Gibbons composed such Services. In Orthodox Christianity the Magnificat, or "Song of the Theotokos", is sung in the Orthros (matins) as part of the Canon. All-night vigils include the Orthros, and a setting of such vigil thus usually includes the setting of a Magnificat, e.g. the "Canticle of the Theotokos" («Величитъ душа моя Господа», Velichit dusha moya Gospoda, "My soul doth magnify the Lord"), No. 13 in Tchaikovsky's All-Night Vigil.
Composer | Born | Died | Magnificat compositions | John Dunstaple | {{circa}} 1390 | 1453 | Three Magnificats |
Guillaume Dufay | {{circa}} 1397 | 1474 | Three Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat Quinti Toni |
Gilles Binchois | {{circa}} 1400 | 1460 | Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat 3ii Toni |
Hugh Kellyk | ? | {{floruit}} {{circa|lk=no}} 1480 | Magnificat a 5 – see Eton Choirbook[9] |
John Nesbet | ? | 1488 (?) | Magnificat – see Eton Choirbook[9] |
William Horwood | {{circa}} 1430 | 1484 | Magnificat secundi toni a 5 (SATTB) – see Eton Choirbook[9] |
Gaspar van Weerbeke | {{circa}} 1445 | after 1516 | Magnificat |
Alexander Agricola | 1445 or 1446 | 1506 | Magnificat primi toni; Magnificat secundi toni; Magnificat octavi toni; (doubtful:) two Magnificat quarti toni |
Josquin des Prez | {{circa}} 1450/1455 | 1521 | Magnificat quarti toni; Magnificat tertii toni (both attributed on stylistic grounds), see e.g. Cancionero de Segovia |
Edmund Turges | {{circa}} 1450? | 1501 or later | One extant Magnificat in Caius Choirbook; Three Magnificats lost in Eton Choirbook[9] |
Walter Lambe | 1450–1? | 1504 or later | Magnificat in Eton Choirbook[9] |
Robert Wylkynson | 1450 or later | 1515 or later | Magnificats (one fragment, one lost) in Eton Choirbook[9] |
William, Monk of Stratford | ? | {{floruit}} {{circa}} late 15th century | One four-part Magnificat in Eton Choirbook[9] |
Pierre de la Rue | {{circa}} 1452 | 1518 | Eight Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 |
John Browne | 1453 (?) | {{floruit}} {{circa}} 1490 | One extant Magnificat; Three Magnificats lost – see Eton Choirbook[9] |
Jean Mouton | {{circa}} 1459 | 1522 | Nine Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 |
Antoine Brumel | {{circa}} 1460 | 1512 or 1513 | Magnificat primi toni; Magnificat secundi toni; Magnificat sexti toni; (doubtful:) Magnificat octavi toni – see e.g. Cancionero de Segovia; |
{{ill|Vasco Pires|pt}} | ? | {{circa}} 1509 | Magnificat quarti toni a 2; Magnificat quarti toni a 4 |
Juan de Anchieta | 1462 | 1523 | Magnificat sexti toni; Magnificat tertii toni – See e.g. Cancionero de Segovia |
Robert Fayrfax | 1464 | 1521 | Magnificat 'O bone Jesu' a 5 (STTTB); Magnificat 'Regale' (SATTB) |
Jerzy Liban | 1464 | after 1546 | Nine Magnificats in Tonus I–IX (1540) |
Pedro de Escobar | {{circa}} 1465 | {{circa}} 1535 | 3vv |
Richard Davy | {{circa}} 1465 | 1507 | Magnificats – see Eton Choirbook[9] |
William Cornysh | 1465 | 1523 | Magnificat in Caius Choirbook; Other Magnificat lost |
Antoine de Févin | {{circa}} 1470 | 1511 or 1512 | Three Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 |
Francisco de Peñalosa | {{circa}} 1470 | 1528 | Magnificat primi toni, tertii toni, quarti toni (2), sexti toni, octavi toni (2) – see e.g. Lira sacro hispana |
Antonius Divitis | {{circa}} 1470 | {{circa}} 1530 | Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20 |
Jean Richafort | {{circa}} 1480 | {{circa}} 1547 | Magnificats, one included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) |
Jacquet of Mantua | 1483 | 1559 | Magnificats, e.g. two in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) |
Loyset Piéton | ? | {{floruit}} {{circa}} 1530 | Magnificat included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) |
Ludwig Senfl | {{circa}} 1490 | 1543 | Magnificats (Tonus I-VIII) |
John Taverner | {{circa}} 1490 | 1545 | Magnificats for 4, 5 or 6 voices |
Johannes Galliculus | {{circa}} 1490 | {{circa}} 1550 | Magnificat quarti toni (a 4); Magnificat quinti toni (a 4); Magnificat septimi toni (a 4) |
Adrian Willaert | {{circa}} 1490 | 1562 | Two Magnificats in I sacri e santi salmi che si cantano a Vespro e Compieta ... a quatro voci (1555) |
Sixt Dietrich | {{circa}} 1494 | 1548 | Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (1535) |
Nicolas Gombert | {{circa}} 1495 | {{circa}} 1560 | Eight Magnificats for five voices, Tonus I–VIII (1552) |
Tugdual Menon | before 1502 | 1566–68 | Magnificat included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542) |
Cristóbal de Morales | {{circa}} 1500 | 1553 | 18 Magnificat settings: five published in Venice in 1542; sixteen copied by Zelenka in the 18th century |
Mattheus Le Maistre | {{circa}} 1505 | 1577 | Magnificat octo tonorum (1557) |
Thomas Tallis | {{circa}} 1505 | 1585 | Magnificat (a 4) in Dorian Service |
Vincenzo Ruffo | {{circa}} 1508 | 1587 | Magnificats |
Antonio de Cabezón | 1510 | 1566 | sets of six or seven Magnificat verses in eight tones |
Christian Hollander | {{circa}} 1510–15 | 1568–69 | Ten Magnificats (using eight tones, two versions in seventh and eight tone) |
Cipriano de Rore | 1515–16 | 1565 | Magnificats, including Magnificat sexti toni |
Hoste da Reggio | {{circa}} 1520 | 1569 | Eight Magnificats for four voices in all traditional tones (Milan, 1550) |
Giovanni Animuccia | {{circa}} 1520 | 1571 | Magnificats |
Bernardino de Ribera | {{circa}} 1520 | {{circa}} 1571–72 | Magnificats, see e.g. Lira sacro hispana |
Philippe de Monte | 1521 | 1603 | Magnificats |
Girolamo Cavazzoni | {{circa}} 1525 | after 1577 | In Intavolatura [...] libro primo (Venice, 1543): Magnificat primi toni, octavi toni; In Intabulatura d'organo [...] libro secondo (Venice c.1543–1549): Magnificat quarti toni, sexti toni |
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina | {{circa}} 1525 | 1594 | 35 Magnificats |
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Ludwig Daser | {{circa}} 1526 | 1589 | 2 Magnificats[10] |
Annibale Padovano | 1527 | 1575 | Magnificats |
Francisco Guerrero | 1527 or 1528 | 1599 | Magnificats in all traditional tones, some with only even or only odd verses – a 4, a 5 or a 6 (Leuven 1563, Rome 1584, Nüremberg 1591, Venice 1597). E.g. Magnificat on the 4th tone (even verses); Magnificats included in Visperas de Reyes and in Lira sacro hispana |
Orlande de Lassus | 1530 or 1532 | 1594 | Over 100 Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat Octavi Toni |
Jacobus de Kerle | 1531 or 1532 | 1591 | Eight odd verse and eight even verse Magnificats in Magnificat octo tonum cum quatuor vocibus (Venice, 1561); Magnificat from Hymni totius anni ... et Magnificat (1558) lost |
Hernando Franco | 1532 | 1585 | Eight odd verse and eight even verse Magnificats in eight tones in The Franco Codex (third tone ones lost) |
Gallus Dressler | 1533 | {{circa}} 1585 | Magnificat octo tonorum ... (Magdeburg, 1571) |
Alard du Gaucquier | {{circa}} 1534 | {{circa}} 1582 | Magnificat octo tonorum (even verses, four to six voices, 1574) |
Ippolito Chamaterò | late 1530s | after 1592 | Magnificats |
Paolo Isnardi | {{circa}} 1536 | 1596 | Psalmi omnes ad vesperas ... vna cum tribus Magnificat, quorum vnum tum pari tum plena voce ... quatuor vocum (Venice, 1569); Magnificat omnitoni cum quatuor quinque et sex vocibus ... (Venice, 1582) |
Hercules | ? | {{floruit}} {{circa}} 1587 (?) | Magnificat omnitonum quatuor vocibus cum completorio, et quatuor antiphonis B. V. M. (Venice, 1587) |
Francesco Rovigo | 1540/1541 | 1597 | Three Magnificat settings |
William Byrd | {{circa}} 1540/43 | 1623 | Magnificat from Great Service, Second Service, Short Service; Third Service; "Tones and Fauxbourdons" |
Simone Gatto | {{circa}} 1545 | 1595 | (Parody) Magnificats |
Pedro de Cristo | {{circa}} 1545 | 1618 | Magnificat secundi, quarti, quinti, sexti, septimi & octavi toni a 4 |
Balduin Hoyoul | 1547-8 | 1594 | Eight four-voice parody Magnificats (Tonus I–VIII) |
Tomás Luis de Victoria | {{circa}} 1548 | 1611 | Magnificats: even verses, Tonus I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII – odd verses, Tonus I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII – all (1600): Tonus I for 8 voices, Tonus VI for 12 voices |
{{Interlanguage link multi|Jacobus Flori|fr}} | {{circa}} 1550 | {{floruit}} 1571–1588 | Cantiones sacrae quinque vocum quas vulgo Motectas vocant quibus adjunctae sunt octo Magnificat secundum octo tonos […] tum omnivario instrumentorum concentui [...] (1599) |
Theodorus Leonardus | ? | {{floruit}} before 1600 (?) | A set of four-voice Magnificats through the eight tones (?) (1594) |
Sebastián de Vivanco | {{circa}} 1551 | 1622 | Eighteen Magnificats, see e.g. Lira sacro hispana |
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi | {{circa}} 1554 | 1609 | Several Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat an Otto Voci (SATB/SATB, 1601) |
Girolamo Diruta | {{circa}} 1554 | after 1610 | Eight organ Magnificats in eight tones (most of them with transpositions), e.g. Magnificat 5to tuono in A Minor |
Alonso Lobo | 1555 | 1617 | Antiphona ad Magnificat: O quam suavis est, Domine |
Giovanni Croce | 1557 | 1609 | Magnificat omnium tonorum for six voices (1605) |
Giovanni Gabrieli | 1557 | 1612 | Magnificats for 8 and 12 voices in Sacrae symphoniae (1597) |
Paul Homberger | 1559/1560 | 1634 | Magnificat 2 vocum (cycle) |
Giulio Belli | {{circa}} 1560 | {{circa}} 1621 | Psalmi ad vesperas ... duoque cantica beatae virginis ... (1592); Psalmi ad vesperas ... duoque cantica beatae virginis (1596); Psalmi ad vesperas in totius anni festivitatibus, ac tria cantica Beatae Virginis Mariae (1603) |
Hieronymus Praetorius | 1560 | 1629 | Full Magnificat cycle for organ (Tonus I-VIII + 'Germanice', 1611); Magnificats a 8 in all traditional Gregorian tones, among which a Magnificat 5. Toni cum canticis Ecclesiasticis (i.e. with Christmas interpolations, 1622) |
Sebastian Aguilera de Heredia | 1561 | 1627 | Canticum Beatissimae Virginis Deiparae Mariae (1618): four-, five-, six- and eight-voice settings, each in eight tones, some with even, some with odd verses |
Jean Titelouze | 1562/3 | 1633 | Le Magnificat ou Cantique de la Vierge pour toucher sur l'orgue suivant les huit tons de l'Église (1626) |
Duarte Lobo | {{circa}} 1565 | 1646 | Magnificat primi, secundi, tertii, quarti, quinti, sexti, septimi & octavi toni |
Manuel Cardoso | 1566 | 1650 | "Cantica Beatae Mariae Virginis" (1613) |
Christoph Demantius | 1567 | 1643 | Trias precum vespertinum, qua continetur canticum B. Mariae Virginis, (etc.) (Nuremberg, 1602) |
Claudio Monteverdi | 1567 | 1643 | Two Magnificats included in Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610) and two in Selva morale e spirituale (1640–41) |
Adriano Banchieri | 1568 | 1634 | Magnificats |
Paul Sartorius | 1569 | 1609 | Eight Magnificats a 6 in Chorbuch W.b. XIV (Salzburg, 1601) |
Jakob Hassler | 1569 | 1622 | Magnificat 8 tonorum for four voices, even verses (1601) |
Melchior Vulpius | {{circa}} 1570 | 1615 | Canticum Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (Jena, 1605) |
Giovanni Paolo Cima | {{circa}} 1570 | 1622 | In Concerti Ecclesiastici (SATB and continuo, 1610): No. 42 Magnificat Quinti Toni, No. 43 Magnificat Sesti Toni |
Michael Praetorius | 1571 (?) | 1621 | Several Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat "Ut re mi fa sol la", Magnificat "In te, Domine, speravi" and Magnificat "Chorale melos germanicum" included in Megalynodia Sionia (1611); Magnificat Primi Toni (organ) |
Filipe de Magalhães | {{circa}} 1571 | 1652 | "Cantica Beatissimae Virginis" (1636) |
Estêvão Lopes Morago | {{circa}} 1575 | 1630 | Magnificat primi, tertii, quarti & octavi toni |
Johann Stadlmayr | {{circa}} 1575 | 1648 | Among others, ten Magnificats (seven of them parodies) in Sacrum Beatissimae Virginis Canticum (1603) |
Erhard Bodenschatz | 1576 | 1636 | Das schöne und geistreiche Magnificat der hochgelobten Jungfrauen Mariae (...) auf die zwölf modos musicales in ihrer natürlichen Ordnung unterschiedlich mit vier Stimmen gesetzt. (Leipzig, 1599) |
Stefano Bernardi | {{circa}} 1577 | 1637 | Several Magnificat settings, including Magnificat for 4 voices, Magnificat for 5 voices, Magnificat for 6 voices |
Melchior Franck | {{circa}} 1579 | 1639 | Laudes Dei vespertinae (Coburg, 1622) |
Orlando Gibbons | 1583 | 1625 | Magnificat ("My soul doth magnify the Lord") in Short Service (SATB), in Second Service (voices and organ) |
Girolamo Frescobaldi | 1583 | 1643 | Magnificat primi toni, Magnificat secundi toni and Magnificat sesti toni in Secondo libro di toccate (organ, 1627) |
Heinrich Schütz | 1585 | 1672 | One Latin Magnificat (1665 or earlier), five German Magnificats (three extant: in Symphoniae sacrae II, 1643; in Zwölf geistliche Gesänge, 1657; in Swan Song, 1671) |
Johann Hermann Schein | 1586 | 1630 | Magnificat, odd verses, ST and continuo, No. 26 in Opella nova (1618); "Meine Seele erhebt den Herren", four-part harmonization of Luther's German Magnificat in Cantional oder Gesangbuch Augspurgischer Confession (1627, 1645) |
Jacob Praetorius | 1586 | 1651 | Magnificat cycle, Magnificat Primi Toni (organ) |
Antoine Boësset | 1587 | 1643 | Magnificat |
Samuel Scheidt | 1587 | 1654 | Tabulatura Nova (organ, 1624): Canon a 3 "Et exultavit" SSWV 122–123 and Magnificat {{nowrap>1–9 toni}} SSWV 140–148; in Geistliche Konzerte: three Magnificats with German interpolations, e.g. SSWV 299 for Christmas (SSATTB, 1635), and a German Magnificat, SSWV 331 (SATB and basso continuo, 1640) |
Heinrich Pfendner | {{circa}} 1588 | 1631 | Magnificat |
Jacob Schedlich | 1591 | 1669 | Magnificat et intonationes precum verspertinarum (1613) |
Melchior Schildt | 1592 or 1593 | 1667 | Magnificat I. toni (organ) |
Heinrich Scheidemann | {{circa}} 1595 | 1663 | Tonus I (WV 14),}} {{nowrap|II (WV 15),}} {{nowrap|III (WV 16),}} {{nowrap|IV (WV 17),}} {{nowrap|V (WV 18),}} {{nowrap|VI (WV 19),}} {{nowrap|VII (WV 65),}} {{nowrap|VIII (WV 20, 66)}} |
Giovanni Rovetta | 1596 | 1668 | Magnificats in Salmi concertati, Op. 1 (1626) and in Vespro solenne (1639) |
Giovanni Giacomo Arrigoni | 1597 | 1675 | Magnificat in Salmi [...] con vn Magnificat A Cinque voci concertate & due violini, Op. 9 (1663) |
Johann Crüger | 1598 | 1662 | Meine seele erhebet den Herren |
Giovanni Battista Fasolo | {{circa}} 1598 | 1664 | Organ Magnificats in eight tones in Annuale, Op. 8 |
Thomas Selle | 1599 | 1663 | Meine seele erhebet den Herren |
Francesco Cavalli | 1602 | 1676 | Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat à 8 in Musiche Sacre 1656; Magnificats in 1675 vespers |
Francesco Foggia | 1604 | 1688 | Magnificats, e.g. in Psalmodia Vespertina; Magnificat for 5 voices and continuo; Magnificat concertata con instromenti di 6 tono for SSATB/SATB choir (1665) |
Hieronymus (III) Praetorius | 1614 | 1629 | Magnificat I. toni (organ, formerly attributed to Hieronymus (I) Praetorius) |
Johann Erasmus Kindermann | 1616 | 1655 | Harmonia Organica (1645) {{Audio>Kindermann Magnificat Vers6.ogg|6th verse (Gloria) of Magnificat Octavi Toni}} |
Matthias Weckmann | 1616 (?) | 1674 | Magnificat II. toni (organ) |
Johann Caspar Kerll | 1627 | 1693 | Modulatio organica super Magnificat octo ecclesiasticis tonis respondens (Munich, 1686) |
{{illm|João de Figueiredo Borges|pt|lt=João de Figueiredo Borges}} | ? | 1674 | Magnificat sexti toni a 8; Magnificat septimi toni a 8 |
Nicolas Lebègue | 1631 | 1702 | Livre d'orgue No.2 (1678), containing "...versets de Magnificat dans les 8 tons ecclésiastiques" |
Dietrich Buxtehude | {{circa}} 1637/39 | 1707 | Chorale preludes (organ): two Magnificat primi toni (BuxWV 203–204) and Magnificat noni toni (BuxWV 205); Attributed: Magnificat for SSATB, two violins and continuo, BuxWV Anh. 1 |
Cristoforo Caresana | {{circa}} 1640 | 1709 | Magnificats a 4, a 5, a 8 and a 16, e.g. Magnificat for SAATB (1683) |
Marc-Antoine Charpentier | 1643 | 1704 | Ten Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat for ATB, two treble instruments and continuo, H. 73 (1670–71); Magnificat à 8 voix et 8 instruments, H. 74; Magnificat à 4 voix sans instruments, H. 76 (1688–90) |
Jacques Boyvin | {{circa}} 1649 | 1706 | Organ Suites for the Magnificat |
Johann Pachelbel | 1653 | 1706 | Magnificats, e.g. in D major (P. 246); Magnificat fugues (organ); Chorale preludes: Meine Seele erhebt den Herren (Magnificat peregrini toni) |
Henry Purcell | 1659 | 1695 | Magnificats ("My soul doth magnify the lord"): in B-flat major, Z 230/7 (before 1682) and in G minor, Z 231/1 |
Johann Kuhnau | 1660 | 1722 | Magnificat in C major for SATB soloists, SSATB chorus and orchestra |
Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow | 1663 | 1712 | Cantata Meine Seele erhebt den Herren |
Louis-Nicolas Clérambault | 1676 | 1749 | Magnificat, C. 136; Magnificat du 1er ton, C. 154 |
Nicola Fago | 1677 | 1745 | Magnificats for SSATB/SSATB & instruments in G minor, in F minor (1710), for SSATB & orchestra in D major |
Antonio Vivaldi | 1678 | 1741 | 01 - Magnificat.ogg|RV 610: 1}}, {{Audio-nohelp|02 - Et Exultavit.ogg|2}}, {{Audio-nohelp|03 - Et Misericordia.ogg|3}}, {{Audio-nohelp|04 - Fecit Potentiam.ogg|4}}, {{Audio-nohelp|05 - Deposuit Potentes.ogg|5}}, {{Audio-nohelp|06 - Esurientes.ogg|6}}, {{Audio-nohelp|07 - Suscepit Israel.ogg|7}}, {{Audio-nohelp|08 - Sicut Locutus.ogg|8}}, {{Audio-nohelp|09 - Gloria.ogg|9}} |
Melchior Hoffmann | {{circa}} 1679 | 1715 | Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV Anh. 21; (or J. S. Bach?) Meine Seele rühmt und preist, BWV 189 |
Jan Dismas Zelenka | 1679 | 1745 | Magnificats: in A minor (ZWV 106, lost), in C major (ZWV 107, c. 1727); in D major (ZWV 108, 1725) |
Jean-Adam Guilain | {{circa}} 1680 | after 1739 | Eight Magnificats in Pièces d'Orgue pour le Magnificat (1706), of which the first four are extant (Tonus I-IV) |
Johann Mattheson | 1681 | 1764 | Deutsches Magnificat a due cori (eight voices and orchestra, 1718) |
Georg Philipp Telemann | 1681 | 1767 | TWV 1:1104–1108 cantatas, e.g. Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn; Magnificat anima mea for SATBB and orchestra, TWV 9:17; Das deutsche magnificat for SATB and orchestra, TWV 9:18 |
Jean-François Dandrieu | {{circa}} 1682 | 1738 | Pièces d'orgue, Livre 1 (1739): 6 Suites in major and minor keys, each containing a six-movement Magnificat, e.g. {{Audio>PleinJeu Dandrieu.ogg|Magnificat I from Organ Suite in D Major}} |
Johann David Heinichen | 1683 | 1729 | in G major (S. 89),}} {{nobreak|in A major (S. 90),}} {{nobreak|in F major (S. 91/92),}} {{nobreak|in B flat major (S. 93/94/95),}} {{nobreak|in E flat major (S. 96)}} |
Christoph Graupner | 1683 | 1760 | Magnificat, GWV 1172/22 (1722); Visitation cantatas "Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn": GWV 1171/19, 1171/46 |
Francesco Durante | 1684 | 1755 | Magnificats e.g. in B-flat major (sometimes misattributed to Pergolesi), in A minor (1752) |
Johann Sebastian Bach | 1685 | 1750 | The Tudor Consort - J S Bach - Magnificat BWV 243 - Gloria Patri.ogg|Gloria Patri, movement 12 of BWV 243}}; Cantata Meine Seel erhebt den Herren, BWV 10 (1724); Chorale harmonizations BWV 323 – 324; Schübler Chorale No. 4, BWV 648 (organ) |
Nicola Porpora | {{circa}} 1686 | 1766 | Magnificat in A minor |
Johann Friedrich Fasch | 1688 | 1758 | Magnificat, FWV H:G1 |
František Tůma | 1704 | 1774 | Magnificat in C major[11] |
Baldassare Galuppi | 1706 | 1785 | Four Magnificats |
Bernard Aymable Dupuy | 1707 | 1789 | Grand Magnificats No. 22, No. 23, No. 24 |
Michel Corrette | 1707 | 1795 | Organ Magnificats: four in Premier Livre d’Orgue, Op. 16 (1737), four in Deuxième Livre d’Orgue, Op. 26 (1750) |
Franz Xaver Richter | 1709 | 1789 | Magnificat in C major for soloists, choir and orchestra |
Johann Ludwig Krebs | 1713 | 1780 | (or J. S. Bach?) Chorale prelude "Meine Seele erhebet den Herren", Fuga sopra il Magnificat, BWV 733 {{audio>Lahm Magnificat Fuge Bach.ogg|BWV 733}} |
Gottfried August Homilius | 1714 | 1785 | Four Magnificats |
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach | 1714 | 1788 | Magnificat in D major (Wq 215 – H. 772, 1749) |
Johann Ernst Bach II | 1722 | 1777 | Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn cantatas, e.g. 1764 |
Claude Balbastre | 1724 | 1799 | Magnificat du 1er ton (organ) |
Jean-Jacques Beauvarlet-Charpentier | 1734 | 1794 | 3 Magnificats, Op. 7 (c. 1777); In Journal d’orgue: {{nobreak>No. 3 (1784),}} {{nobreak|No. 9 (1784),}} {{nobreak|No. 11 (1785)}} |
Johann Christian Bach | 1735 | 1782 | Magnificat a 8 in C major (W E20 – unfinished), Magnificat a 8 in C major (W E21), Magnificat a 4 in C major (W E22) |
Guillaume Lasceux | 1740 | 1831 | Organ Magnificats (tonus I-VIII) in Annuaire de l’Organiste (1819) |
Nikolaus Betscher | 1745 | 1811 | Magnificat in D major |
Antonio Salieri | 1750 | 1825 | Magnificat in C major (1815); Magnificat in F major (1815) |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | 1756 | 1791 | Magnificat, K. 193/186g (1774); included in vespers: Vesperae solennes de Dominica, K. 321 (1779) and Vesperae solennes de confessore, K. 339 (1780) |
Franz Schubert | 1797 | 1828 | Magnificat, D. 486 (1816) |
Felix Mendelssohn | 1809 | 1847 | [https://web.archive.org/web/20150107074728/http://www.carus-verlag.com/images-intern/medien/40/4048400/4048400x.pdf Magnificat in D major (1822)]; Mein Herz erhebet, No. 3 of Three Motets, Op. 69 (1847) |
Jacques-Louis Battmann | 1818 | 1886 | Magnificats, e.g. for organ in Le service de chapelles, Op. 274 (Paris, 1868) |
Charles Gounod | 1818 | 1893 | My soul doth magnify the Lord (Magnificat in D major) for SATB choir and organ in An evening service (1872); Magnificat for soprano solo, choir and organ (1874) |
César Franck | 1822 | 1890 | Magnificats in Pièces posthumes for organ/harmonium |
Anton Bruckner | 1824 | 1896 | Magnificat WAB 24 (1852) |
Peter Benoit | 1834 | 1901 | Magnificat for three voices and organ |
Alexandre Guilmant | 1837 | 1911 | Six versets sur le Magnificat en sol majeur, No. 2 in L’Organiste pratique, Livre 2, Op. 41 (1874) |
Josef Rheinberger | 1839 | 1901 | Organ Sonata No. 4, Op. 98 cites the tonus peregrinus |
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky | 1840 | 1893 | «Величитъ душа моя Господа» (Velichit dusha moya Gospoda – "My soul doth magnify the Lord"), Canticle of the Theotokos, No. 13 in All-Night Vigil (1882) |
Hubert Parry | 1848 | 1898 | Magnificat, for Soprano Solo, Chorus and Orchestra, composed for the Hereford Musical Festival, 1897 |
Charles Villiers Stanford | 1852 | 1924 | in B-flat major, Op. 10,}} {{nobreak|in A major, Op. 12,}} {{nobreak|in F major, Op. 36,}} {{nobreak|in G major, Op. 81,}} {{nobreak|in C major, Op. 115,}} {{nobreak|in F major "Queens' Service" (1872),}} {{nobreak|in E-flat major (1873),}} {{nobreak|on the 2nd and 3rd Gregorian Modes (1907);}} {{nobreak|Magnificat for Eight-part Chorus, Op. 164 (1918)}} |
Charles Wood | 1866 | 1926 | Evening Services and/or Magnificat and Nunc dimittis compositions |
Louis Raffy | 1868 | 1932 (?) | Magnificat (Six versets en F major), Op.39 in La Lyre Sacrée (Organ/Harmonium, c. 1924) |
Charles Tournemire | 1870 | 1939 | Postludes libres pour des Antiennes de Magnificat, Op. 68 (1935, for organ) |
Ralph Vaughan Williams | 1872 | 1958 | Magnificat (1932) |
Sergei Rachmaninoff | 1873 | 1943 | Величитъ душа моя Господа (My Soul Doth Magnify the Lord), No. 11 in All-Night Vigil (1915) |
John Ireland | 1879 | 1962 | Evening Services and/or Magnificat and Nunc dimittis compositions, e.g. in C major, in F major |
Arnold Bax | 1883 | 1953 | Magnificats: song with piano (1906), SATB choir (1948) |
Egon Wellesz | 1885 | 1974 | Festliches Präludium on a Byzantine Magnificat, for choir and organ, op. 100 (1966) |
Heinrich Kaminski | 1886 | 1946 | Magnificat (1925) |
Hendrik Andriessen | 1892 | 1981 | Magnificat, for chorus and organ (1937) |
Herbert Howells | 1892 | 1983 | (Evening) Services and/or Magnificat and Nunc dimittis compositions, e.g. Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Gloucester) (1947), Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for St Paul's Cathedral (1951) |
Johannes Weyrauch | 1897 | 1977 | Magnificat for SATB choir and organ, WeyWV 41 |
Herbert Sumsion | 1899 | 1995 | Five Magnificats for choir and organ |
Gerald Finzi | 1901 | 1956 | Magnificat, Op. 36 |
William Walton | 1902 | 1983 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis for SATB soloists, mixed chorus and organ (1974, rev. 1976) |
Hermann Schroeder | 1904 | 1984 | Magnificat Op. 31 (1951) |
Goffredo Petrassi | 1904 | 2003 | Magnificat (1939) |
Hugo Distler | 1908 | 1942 | {{Interlanguage link multi>Die Weihnachtsgeschichte|de|3=Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (Distler)}} (1933) |
Herbert Murrill | 1909 | 1952 | Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (1947) |
Gaston Litaize | 1909 | 1991 | Magnificat pour six voix mixtes, assemblée et orgue (1967) |
Herbert Collum | 1914 | 1982 | Deutsches Magnificat (1962) |
Vincent Persichetti | 1915 | 1987 | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis Op. 8 (1940) |
Knut Nystedt | 1915 | 2014 | Come Sing and Live a World Magnificat (1988); Magnificat for a new Millenium (1997, rev. 2003) |
Paul Huber | 1918 | 2001 | Magnificat (1979/1980) |
Wilhelm Keller | 1920 | 2008 | Magnificat (1985) |
Heinrich Poos | 1928 | | Magnificat (1972) |
Einojuhani Rautavaara | 1928 | 2016 | Magnificat (1979) |
Gerd Zacher | 1929 | 2014 | Magnificat (1960) |
Dieter Schnebel | 1930 | | Magnificat (1997) |
Heinz Werner Zimmermann | 1930 | | Vespers with Magnificat: 1960–61, 2003–06; Magnificat (1970) |
Heinz Heckmann | 1932 | | Magnificat (1994) |
Ruth Watson Henderson | 1932 | | Magnificat for SATB Choir and Organ (2002) |
Krzysztof Penderecki | 1933 | | Magnificat (1973–74) |
Arvo Pärt | 1935 | | Magnificat (1989); Seven Magnificat Antiphons (1991) |
Sven-David Sandström | 1942 | | Magnificat (2005)[12][13] |
Volker David Kirchner | 1942 | | Magnificat (2006) |
Clive Strutt | 1942 | | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Evening Canticles (1992) |
Helge Jung | 1943 | 2013 | Magnificat (1996) |
John Tavener | 1944 | 2013 | Canticle of the Mother of God (1976); Magnificat: "Collegium Regale" (1986), "Second Setting" (2010) |
John Rutter | 1945 | | Magnificat (1990) |
Giles Swayne | 1946 | | Magnificat (1982) |
Alan Wilson | 1947 | | Magnificats |
Diana Burrell | 1948 | | Magnificat in Service for Treble Voices |
Manfred Trojahn | 1949 | | Magnificat (2010) |
Edward Lambert | 1951 | | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis |
Christoph Schönherr | 1952 | | Magnificat: The Groovy Version of OX (2005) |
John Michael Talbot | 1954 | | Holy is His Name (1980), paraphrase |
Michael Denhoff | 1955 | | Magnificat Op. 98 (2004/2005) |
Steve Dobrogosz | 1956 | | Magnificat for women's choir and brass quintet (2003) |
Carlo Pedini | 1956 | | Magnificat (1997), two versions: seven female voices, bells – seven female voices, bells, clarinet, string quartet |
David Haas | 1957 | | Holy Is Your Name (1989), paraphrase set to an adaptation of Wild Mountain Thyme |
Michael Benedict Bender | 1958 | | Magnificat: My soul magnifies (2002) |
Hans-Ola Ericsson | 1958 | | Magnificat Op. 6 (1974) |
Klaus Miehling | 1963 | | Magnificat Op. 2 (1981); Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn op. 222 (2014) |
Albert Frey | 1964 | | Meine Seele preist die Größe des Herrn |
Martin Palmeri | 1965 | | Magnificat (2012) |
Edmund Knollys | 1968 | | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis, Op. 11 (1991) |
Hester R. Eigner | 1969 | | Magnificat (2009) |
Kim André Arnesen | 1980 | | Magnificat (2010) |
Marty Haugen | 1950 | | Annunciation/Magnificat for Holden Evening Prayer (1985–86)[14] |
Rory Cooney | 1952[15] | | Canticle of the Turning (1990),[16] paraphrase set to the Irish tune Star of the County Down[17] |
Peter Reulein | 1966 | | Laudato si - Ein franziskanisches Magnificat (2016)[18] |
{{expand list|date=December 2014}}1. ^W.K. Lowther Clarke. Evensong Explained, with Notes on Matins and the Litany. London: SPCK, 1922
2. ^Robert F. Taft. [https://books.google.be/books?id=UK-BkfXmh20C&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128&dq=magnificat+matins+eastern&source=bl&ots=HCBFq0lbuF&sig=SYQu-2Yrs46VvDKl6wYv_ArvjmY&hl=nl&sa=X&ei=hpaaVIHaEYWX7Aa36IGACg&ved=0CFIQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=magnificat%20matins%20eastern&f=false The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: The Origins of the Divine Office and Its Meaning for Today] Liturgical Press, 1986. {{ISBN|0814614051}} {{ISBN|9780814614051}}
3. ^Frans Wiering. "Appendix C: Modal Cycles," pp. 265–296 in [https://books.google.be/books?id=yfFTAQAAQBAJ The Language of the Modes: Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality]. Routledge, 2013. {{ISBN|1135683417}} {{ISBN|9781135683412}}
4. ^Mattias Lundberg. [https://books.google.be/books?id=x8ahAgAAQBAJ Tonus Peregrinus: The History of a Psalm-tone and its use in Polyphonic Music] Ashgate Publishing, 2012, pp. 10-11 {{ISBN|1409455076}} {{ISBN|9781409455073}}
5. ^Christopher Michael Porter. [https://books.google.be/books?id=Cc_trlalVnsC Salzburg W.B. XIV: Historical Context, Liturgical Significance and Critical Edition] The University of Iowa – ProQuest, 2008. {{ISBN|0549742077}} {{ISBN|9780549742074}} – p. 63 ff.
6. ^Roche, Elizabeth and Alex Lingas. "Mass" The Oxford Companion to Music. Ed. Alison Latham. Oxford Music Online.
7. ^{{cite book|last=Franz|first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Franz|title=Mittheilungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ASsWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1|year=1863|publisher=H. Karmrodt|page=6}}
8. ^Hermann Kretzschmar. [https://archive.org/stream/bub_gb_1N05AAAAIAAJ#page/n403/mode/2up Führer durch den Konzertsaal, Part II, Volume 1: Kirchliche Werke, p. 395] Breitkopf & Härtel, 5th edition, 1921
9. ^1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 {{BNF|43039821v}}
10. ^{{cite book |editor1-last=Sadie |editor1-first=Stanley |date=2001 |title=The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians |publisher=Grove Dictionaries, Inc. |isbn=1-56159-239-0|volume=7|page=}}
11. ^Magnificat in C at {{url|www.collavoce.com}}
12. ^Sven-David Sandström at Indiana University Bloomington website
13. ^Indiana University, Program 2007-2008, no. 420: {{OCLC|291046339}}
14. ^{{cite web| url = https://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=8024 | title = Now the Feast and Celebration / Holden Evening Prayer | publisher = GIA Publications | accessdate = 2016-03-13}}
15. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3492400023.html | title = Rory Cooney | publisher = Encyclopedia.com | accessdate = 2016-03-13}}
16. ^{{cite web| url = http://www.giamusic.com/search_details.cfm?title_id=976 | title = Canticle of the Turning | publisher = GIA Publications | accessdate = 2016-03-13}}
17. ^{{cite web| url = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9QeTmRCpW4 | title = Canticle of the Turning - Rory Cooney | publisher = YouTube.com | date = 2011-12-09 | accessdate = 2016-03-13}}
18. ^{{cite book | last = Reulein | first = Peter | authorlink = Peter Reulein | last2 = Schlegel | first2 = Helmut | authorlink2 = Helmut Schlegel | title = Laudato si' / Ein franziskanisches Magnificat | publisher = Dehm Verlag | location = Limburg an der Lahn | year = 2016 | isbn = 978-3-943302-34-9 | pages = 230 | ismn = 979-0-50226-047-7}}