Composer | Piece | Date |
| Weber, Carl Maria von (1786–1826) | Der Freischütz | 1821 |
| Berlioz, Hector (1803–69) | Le Ballet des Ombres [Op. 2] | 1828 [published 1829] |
| Auber, Daniel (1782–1871) | La sirène | 1844 |
| Auber, Daniel (1782–1871) | Haydée, ou Le secret | 1847 |
| Verdi, Giuseppe (1813–1901) | Rigoletto | 1851 |
| Berlioz, Hector (1803–69) | Tristia, Op. 18 | [published 1852] |
| Gounod, Charles (1818–93) | La nonne sanglante | 1852–54 |
| Berlioz, Hector (1803–69) | Les Troyens, Op. 5 | 1856–58 |
| Offenbach, Jacques (1819–80) | Le voyage dans la lune | 26 October 1875 |
| Debussy, Claude (1862–1918) | Printemps | 1887 |
| d’Indy, Vincent (1851–1931) | Fervaal, Op. 40 | 1889–93, orchd 1893–95 |
| Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Il’yich (1840–93) | The Nutcracker, Op. 71 | 1891–92 |
| Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay (1844–1908) | Mlada | 1892 |
| Massenet, Jules (1842–1912) | Thaïs | 1894 |
| Debussy, Claude (1862–1918) | Nocturnes | 1897–99 |
| Mascagni, Pietro (1863–1945) | Iris | 1898 |
| Dukas, Paul (1865–1935) | Ariane et Barbe-bleue | 1899–1907 |
| Delius, Frederick (1862–1934) | Appalachia | 1902–3 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Willow-Wood | 1903 |
| Delius, Frederick (1862–1934) | A Mass of Life | 1904–5 |
| de Falla, Manuel (1876–1946) | La vida breve | 1904–5 |
| Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924) | Madama Butterfly | 1904 |
| Schmitt, Florent (1870–1958) | La Tragédie de Salomé, Op. 50 | 1907 |
| Skryabin, Aleksandr (1872–1915) | Prométhée, Op. 60 | 1908–10 |
| Stravinsky, Igor (1882–1971) | Le rossignol | 1908, 1913–14 |
| Caplet, André (1878–1925) | Septuor “à cordes vocales et instrumentales” | 1909 |
| Nielsen, Carl (1865–1931) | Symphony No. 3 “Sinfonia espansiva” | 1910–11 |
| Puccini, Giacomo (1858–1924) | La fanciulla del West | 1910 |
| Boulanger, Lili (1893–1918) | Les Sirènes | 1911 |
| Delius, Frederick (1862–1934) | The Song of the High Hills | 1911 |
| Roussel, Albert (1869–1937) | Évocations, Op. 15 | 1911 |
| Tcherepnin, Nikolay (1873–1945) | Narcisse et Echo, Op. 40 | 1911 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Five Mystical Songs | 1911 |
| Ives, Charles (1874–1954) | Symphony No. 4 | ca. 1912–18; ca. 1921–25 |
| Ravel, Maurice (1875–1937) | Daphnis et Chloé | 1912 |
| Roussel, Albert (1869–1937) | Padmâvatî, Op. 18 | 1913–18 |
| Holst, Gustav (1874–1934) | The Planets, Op. 32 | 1914–16 |
| Holst, Gustav (1874–1934) | Sāvitri, Op. 25 | 1916 |
| Delius, Frederick (1862–1934) | To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the Water | 1917 |
| Bartók, Béla (1881–1945) | The Miraculous Mandarin, Op. 19 | 1918–19, orchd 1924, rev. 1926–31 |
| Prokofiev, Sergey (1891–1953) | Love for Three Oranges | 1919 |
| Schoeck, Othmar (1886–1957) | Venus, Op. 32 | 1919–21 |
| Prokofiev, Sergey (1891–1953) | Cinq Mélodies, Op. 35 | 1920 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Pastoral Symphony [#3] | 1921 |
| Honegger, Arthur (1892–1955) | Le roi David | 1922 |
| Howells, Herbert (1892–1983) | Sine Nomine: A Phantasy, Op. 37 | 1922 |
| Caplet, André (1878–1925) | Le miroir de Jésus, mystères du Rosaire | 1923 [vs (1924)] |
| Prokofiev, Sergey (1891–1953) | The Fiery Angel, Op. 37 | 1923 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Old King Cole | 1923 |
| Schmitt, Florent (1870–1958) | Salammbô, Op. 76 | 1925 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Flos Campi | 1925 |
| Schoeck, Othmar (1886–1957) | Lebendig begraben, Op. 40 | 1926 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Sir John in Love | 1928 |
| Roussel, Albert (1869–1937) | Aeneas, Op. 54 | 1935 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Riders to the Sea | 1937 |
| Walton, William (1902–83) | Henry V | 1944 |
| Schoenberg, Arnold (1874–1951) | “Prelude” to Genesis, Op. 44 | 1945 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | An Oxford Elegy | 1949 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Sinfonia Antartica [#7] | 1952 |
| Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872–1958) | Three Vocalises | 1958 |
| Schnittke, Alfred (1934–98) | Voices of Nature [Golosa prirodi] | 1972 |
| Gubaidulina, Sofia (b.1931) | Sonnengesang | 1997 |