List of Magnificat composers

The Magnificat, in Latin also canticum Beat(issim)ae Virginis Mariae (the song of the (most) Blessed Virgin Mary), is a common part of Christian worship, for instance traditionally included in vespers, evensong or matins.[1][2] As such it is often sung and was set to music by various composers.

Magnificat in Gregorian chant

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]

Also the newer psalm tones were used for Magnificat settings:

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]

Odd verses Even verses
1. (Luke 1:46) Magnificat
anima mea Dominum.		 2. (Luke 1:47) Et exultavit spiritus meus
in Deo salutari meo.
3. (Luke 1:48) Quia respexit humilitatem ancillae suae
ecce enim ex hoc beatam me dicent omnes generationes.		 4. (Luke 1:49) Quia fecit mihi magna qui potens est
et sanctum nomen ejus.
5. (Luke 1:50) Et misericordia ejus a progenie in progenies
timentibus eum.		 6. (Luke 1:51) Fecit potentiam in brachio suo
dispersit superbos mente cordis sui.
7. (Luke 1:52) Deposuit potentes de sede
et exaltavit humiles.		 8. (Luke 1:53) Esurientes implevit bonis
et divites dimisit inanes.
9. (Luke 1:54) Suscepit Israel puerum suum
recordatus misericordiae suae.		 10. (Luke 1:55) Sicut locutus est ad patres nostros
Abraham et semini ejus in saecula.
11. (doxology) Gloria Patri, et Filio
et Spiritui Sancto.		 12. (doxology) Sicut erat in principio, et nunc, et semper
et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Examples of such settings include the sixteen Magnificat settings by Cristóbal de Morales: half of these include only the odd verses ("anima mea" settings), the others only the even verses ("Et exultavit" settings) – both series of eight settings by Morales have one setting per traditional church tone.

Bars 10–13 of Jean Titelouze's second setting of Deposuit potentes from Magnificat primi toni. The subject of this inversion fugue is highlighted with shades of blue.

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 c.  1390 1453 Three Magnificats
Guillaume Dufay c.  1397 1474 Three Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat Quinti Toni
Gilles Binchois c. 1400 1460 Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat 3ii Toni
Hugh Kellyk ? fl. c. 1480 Magnificat a 5 – see Eton Choirbook
John Nesbet ? 1488 (?) Magnificat – see Eton Choirbook
William Horwood c. 1430 1484 Magnificat secundi toni a 5 (SATTB) – see Eton Choirbook
Gaspar van
Weerbeke		 c. 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 c.  1450/1455 1521 Magnificat quarti toni; Magnificat tertii toni (both attributed on stylistic grounds), see e.g. Cancionero de Segovia
Edmund Turges c. 1450? 1501 or later One extant Magnificat in Caius Choirbook; Three Magnificats lost in Eton Choirbook
Walter Lambe 1450–1? 1504 or later Magnificat in Eton Choirbook
Robert Wylkynson 1450 or later 1515 or later Magnificats (one fragment, one lost) in Eton Choirbook
William,
Monk of Stratford		 ? fl. c. late
15th century		 One four-part Magnificat in Eton Choirbook
Pierre de la Rue c.  1452 1518 Eight Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20
John Browne 1453 (?) fl. c. 1490 One extant Magnificat; Three Magnificats lost – see Eton Choirbook
Jean Mouton c. 1459 1522 Nine Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20
Antoine Brumel c. 1460 1512 or 1513 Magnificat primi toni; Magnificat secundi toni; Magnificat sexti toni; (doubtful:) Magnificat octavi toni – see e.g. Cancionero de Segovia;
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)
Richard Davy c. 1465 1507 Magnificats – see Eton Choirbook
William Cornysh 1465 1523 Magnificat in Caius Choirbook; Other Magnificat lost
Antoine de Févin c. 1470 1511 or 1512 Three Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20
Francisco de
Peñalosa		 c. 1470 1528 Magnificat primi toni, tertii toni, quarti toni (2), sexti toni, octavi toni (2) – see e.g. Lira sacro hispana
Antonius Divitis c. 1470 c. 1530 Magnificats, see e.g. Choirbook, D-Ju MS 20
Jean Richafort c. 1480 c. 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 ? fl. c. 1530 Magnificat included in Magnificat cum 4 vocibus, Book 1 (Venice, 1542)
Ludwig Senfl c. 1490 1543 Magnificats (Tonus I-VIII)
John Taverner c. 1490 1545 Magnificats for 4, 5 or 6 voices
Johannes Galliculus c. 1490 c. 1550 Magnificat quarti toni (a 4); Magnificat quinti toni (a 4); Magnificat septimi toni (a 4)
Adrian Willaert c. 1490 1562 Two Magnificats in I sacri e santi salmi che si cantano a Vespro e Compieta ... a quatro voci (1555)
Sixt Dietrich c. 1494 1548 Magnificat octo tonorum for four voices (1535)
Nicolas Gombert c. 1495 c. 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		 c. 1500 1553 18 Magnificat settings: five published in Venice in 1542; sixteen copied by Zelenka in the 18th century
Mattheus Le Maistre c. 1505 1577 Magnificat octo tonorum (1557)
Thomas Tallis c. 1505 1585 Magnificat (a 4) in Dorian Service
Vincenzo Ruffo c. 1508 1587 Magnificats
Antonio de Cabezón 1510 1566 sets of six or seven Magnificat verses in eight tones
Christian Hollander c. 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 c. 1520 1569 Eight Magnificats for four voices in all traditional tones (Milan, 1550)
Giovanni Animuccia c. 1520 1571 Magnificats
Bernardino de Ribera c. 1520 c. 1571–72 Magnificats, see e.g. Lira sacro hispana
Philippe de Monte 1521 1603 Magnificats
Girolamo Cavazzoni c. 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		 c. 1525 1594 35 Magnificats
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 c. 1585 Magnificat octo tonorum ... (Magdeburg, 1571)
Alard du Gaucquier c. 1534 c. 1582 Magnificat octo tonorum (even verses, four to six voices, 1574)
Ippolito Chamaterò late 1530s after 1592 Magnificats
Paolo Isnardi c. 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 ? fl. c. 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 c. 1540/43 1623 Magnificat from Great Service, Second Service, Short Service; Third Service; "Tones and Fauxbourdons"
Simone Gatto c. 1545 1595 (Parody) Magnificats
Balduin Hoyoul 1547-8 1594 Eight four-voice parody Magnificats (Tonus I–VIII)
Tomás Luis de
Victoria		 c. 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
Jacobus Flori c. 1550 fl. 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		 ? fl. before 1600 (?) A set of four-voice Magnificats through the eight tones (?) (1594)
Sebastián de Vivanco c. 1551 1622 Eighteen Magnificats, see e.g. Lira sacro hispana
Giovanni Giacomo
Gastoldi		 c. 1554 1609 Several Magnificats, e.g. Magnificat an Otto Voci (SATB/SATB, 1601)
Girolamo Diruta c. 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 c. 1560 c. 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)
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 c. 1570 1615 Canticum Beatissimae Virginis Mariae (Jena, 1605)
Giovanni Paolo Cima c. 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)
Johann Stadlmayr c. 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 c. 1577 1637 Several Magnificat settings, including Magnificat for 4 voices, Magnificat for 5 voices, Magnificat for 6 voices
Melchior Franck c. 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 18 Magnificats, e.g. in Tabulatura Nova (organ, 1624): Canon a 3 "Et exultavit" SSWV 122–123 and Magnificat 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 c. 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		 c. 1595 1663 Magnificats for organ: Tonus I (WV 14), II (WV 15), III (WV 16), IV (WV 17), V (WV 18), VI (WV 19), VII (WV 65), 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		 c. 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 Intonatio Magnificat 4. Toni and Magnificat Octavi Toni in Harmonia Organica (1645)  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 ecclesiaticis tonis respondens (Munich, 1686)
Nicolas Lebègue 1631 1702 Livre d'orgue No.2 (1678), containing "...versets de Magnificat dans les 8 tons ecclésiastiques"
Dietrich Buxtehude c. 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 c. 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 c. 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 Magnificat (RV 610/610a/610b/611) RV 610: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9
Melchior Hoffmann c. 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 c. 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		 c. 1682 1738 Pièces d'orgue, Livre 1 (1739): 6 Suites in major and minor keys, each containing a six-movement Magnificat, e.g.  Magnificat I from Organ Suite in D Major 
Johann David
Heinichen		 1683 1729 Magnificats: in G major (S. 89), in A major (S. 90), in F major (S. 91/92), in B flat major (S. 93/94/95), 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 Magnificat BWV 243a (1723, with Christmas interpolations) – BWV 243 (1733)  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 c. 1686 1766 Magnificat in A minor
Johann Friedrich
Fasch		 1688 1758 Magnificat, FWV H:G1
František Tůma 1704 1774 Magnificat in C major[9]
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  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 Organ Magnificats: 3 Magnificats, Op. 7 (c. 1777); In Journal d’orgue: No. 3 (1784), No. 9 (1784), 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 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 Magnificat and Nunc dimittis settings: in B-flat major, Op. 10, in A major, Op. 12, in F major, Op. 36, in G major, Op. 81, in C major, Op. 115, in F major "Queens' Service" (1872), in E-flat major (1873), on the 2nd and 3rd Gregorian Modes (1907); 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 for St. Pauls (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 "Meine Seele erhebt Gott, den Herren" in Die Weihnachtsgeschichte (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)
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)
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)
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
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)[10]
Rory Cooney 1952[11] Canticle of the Turning (1990),[12] paraphrase set to the Irish tune Star of the County Down[13]
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References

  1. ↑ W.K. Lowther Clarke. Evensong Explained, with Notes on Matins and the Litany. London: SPCK, 1922
  2. ↑ Robert F. Taft. 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 The Language of the Modes: Studies in the History of Polyphonic Modality. Routledge, 2013. ISBN 1135683417 ISBN 9781135683412
  4. ↑ Mattias Lundberg. 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. 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. ↑ Franz, Robert (1863). Mittheilungen über Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat". H. Karmrodt. p. 6.
  8. ↑ Hermann Kretzschmar. Führer durch den Konzertsaal, Part II, Volume 1: Kirchliche Werke, p. 395 Breitkopf & Härtel, 5th edition, 1921
  9. ↑ Magnificat in C at www.collavoce.com
  10. ↑ "Now the Feast and Celebration / Holden Evening Prayer". GIA Publications. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  11. ↑ "Rory Cooney". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  12. ↑ "Canticle of the Turning". GIA Publications. Retrieved 2016-03-13.
  13. ↑ "Canticle of the Turning - Rory Cooney". YouTube.com. 2011-12-09. Retrieved 2016-03-13.

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