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- ↑ A History of the Oratorio: Vol. 4 Howard E. Smither · 2012 p 96 1913 Healing a man born blind Loewe Heilung 1860 Raising of Lazarus Schubert Lazarus 1820 (unfinished) Sobolewski Lazarus 1837 Späth Lazarus 1847 Vogt Lazarus 1858 Loewe Lazarus 1863 Boigt Lazarus 1880 a Loewe's is the only one of the ...