 A few 19th @-@ century composers , notably Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt , followed Beethoven in producing choral symphonic works . Notable works in the genre were produced in the 20th century by Gustav Mahler , Sergei Rachmaninoff , Igor Stravinsky , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich , among others . The final years of the 20th century and the opening of the 21st century have seen several new works in this genre , among them compositions by Peter Maxwell Davies , Tan Dun , Philip Glass , Hans Werner Henze , Krzysztof Penderecki , and William <unk> . 
