List of male choral works

On this page musical works for male choir are listed.

A cappella

Since a complete list is not even possible, the following selection is limited to particularly well-known and style-defining works.

German-speaking area

• Carl Friedrich Zelter - master and journeyman
• Friedrich Silcher - The Lorelei
• Carl Maria von Weber - Jägerchor from "Der Freischütz, op. 77"
• Franz Schubert - Wine and Love D. 901; The night D. 983c
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - 4 songs, op. 75; 2 spiritual male choirs Op. 115
• Robert Schumann - 6 songs, op. 33; Ritornelle in canonical ways, op.65
• Johannes Brahms - Postillons Morgenlied (~ 1847/50?), The Golden Bridges (1853), 5 Songs Op. 41
• Franz Liszt - Serenade
• Richard Wagner - At Weber's grave
• Anton Bruckner - shooting stars; Dreaming and waking
• Peter Cornelius - Funeral Choirs, op.9
• Max Bruch - morning serenade
• Hugo Wolf - 3 songs Op. 13
• Richard Strauss - 3 male choirs based on poems by Friedrich Rückert
• Max Reger - 7 male choirs Op. 38
• Arnold Schönberg - 6 pieces Op. 35
• Carl Orff - Sunt lacrimae rerum
• Paul Hindemith - Death; A bright midnight; About spring
• Kurt Weill - To Potsdam under the oaks

Northern Europe

• Edvard Grieg - Album for Mandssang Op. 30th
• Carl Nielsen - Aftenstemning
• Jean Sibelius - Rakastava Op. 14th
• Hugo Alfvén - Aftonen; Gryning vid havet
• Einojuhani Rautavaara - Elämän Kirja
• Veljo Tormis - Incantatio maris aestuosi; Mustse mere laulud

Eastern Europe and Russia

• Bedřich Smetana - Píseň na moři; Rolnicka
• Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky - 5 Russian folk songs
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - evening
• Antonín Dvořák - 5 sborů Op. 27
• Leoš Janáček - 4 mužských sborů moravských; Potulný šílenec
• Béla Bartók - Négy régy magyar népdal
• Zoltán Kodály - Bordal; Huszt; Karádi nóták
• Dmitri Schostakowitsch - The Loyalty Op. 136
• Krzysztof Penderecki - Benedicamus Domino

France

• Camille Saint-Saëns - Serenade d'hiver; Les soldiers de Gédéon Op. 46; Salarelle Op. 74
• Darius Milhaud - Psaume 121 Op. 72
• Francis Poulenc - Chanson à boire; Quatre petites prières de Saint François d'Assise

Italy

• Gioachino Rossini - Preghiera
• Sylvano Bussotti - Siciliano
• Toni Ortelli - La Montanara

Anglophone room

• Edward Elgar - From the Greek Anthology Op. 45
• R. Murray Schafer - Magic Songs

With solo instrument

piano

• Franz Schubert - The Gondola Driver D. 809; Serenade D. 920
• Benjamin Britten - The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard

organ

• Giacomo Puccini - Vexilla Regis
• Charles Gounod - Deuxieme Messe pour les sociétés chorales
• Josef Gabriel Rheinberger - Mass in B op. 172; Mass in F op.190
• Franz Liszt - Te Deum II; Mass for male choir; Mihi autem adhaerere
• Hans Huber - Mass in F major
• Arvo Pärt - De profundis (drums ad lib.)

Others

• Samuel Barber - A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map Op. 15 (timpani)
• Veljo Tormis - Pikse litaania (bass drum)

With ensemble

• Franz Schubert - Song of the Spirits over the Waters D. 714 (string ensemble or string orchestra); Night song in the forest D. 913 (4 horns)
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - Vesper song, op.121 (cello and double bass, organ ad lib.)
• Théodore Gouvy - Le printemps (Spring Awakening) Op．73 (piano or orchestra, soprano)
• Anton Bruckner - Inveni David (4 trombones)
• Alexander von Zemlinsky - Minnelied (2 flutes, 2 horns and harp)
• Gustav Holst - A Dirge for Two Veterans (3 trumpets, trombone, tuba and percussion)
• Heitor Villa-Lobos - Chôros No. 3 (clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, horn and 3 trombones)
• Iannis Xenakis - Medea Senecae (clarinet, contrabassoon, trombone, percussion, violoncello and pebbles)

With orchestra

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Loudly proclaim our joy (Masonic cantata) KV. 623
• Luigi Cherubini - Requiem in D minor
• Gioachino Rossini - Miserere
• Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - To the Artists Op. 68; Celebratory singing (both concert band); Music for "Antigone" op. 55
• Franz Schubert - Hymn to the Holy Spirit (concert band)
• Johannes Brahms Rinaldo Op. 50; Rhapsody Op. 53
• Robert Schumann - Do not despair in the valley of pain; The happiness of Edenhall
• Richard Wagner - The love feast of the apostles
• Franz Liszt - Requiem (organ and wind instruments)
• Anton Bruckner - fixed cantata; The Song of Songs; Teutonic train; Heligoland
• Johann Strauss (son) - On the beautiful blue Danube Op. 314
• Edvard Grieg - Landkjenning Op. 31
• Charles Villiers Stanford - Songs of the Sea Op. 91
• Leoš Janáček - Na Soláni čarták
• Hugo Wolf - The Fatherland
• Max Reger - The consecration of the night
• Claude Debussy - Invocation
• Max Bruch - various cantatas (including Normannenzug, Leonidas, Frithjof)
• Richard Strauss - The Times of the Day Op. 76
• Jean Sibelius - Sandel's Op. 28; Tulen synty Op. 32
• Arnold Schönberg - A Survivor from Warsaw Op. 46
• Gustav Holst - 6 Choruses Op. 53 (string orchestra)
• Igor Stravinsky - Le Roi des Etoiles; Babel; Oedipus Rex
• Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow - legend of the wise Oleg
• Edgard Varèse - Nocturnal
• Kurt Weill - Das Berliner Requiem (concert band)
• Joaquín Rodrigo - Himnos de los Neófitos de Qumran
• Maurice Duruflé - Mass Cum Jubilo Op. 11 (orchestra or orchestra)
• Luciano Berio - punch
• Sofia Asgatowna Gubaidulina - Night in Memphis
• Robert Carl - sadness and comfort

Symphonies

• Franz Liszt - Faust Symphony
• Jean Sibelius - Kullervo Symphony Op. 7th
• Dmitri Shostakovich - 13th Symphony in B flat minor Op. 113 "Babi Yar"
• Toshirō Mayuzumi - Nirvana Symphony