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In 1700, Pope Clement IX banned the latest wave of explicit and violent opera in Rome for five whole years. But not even his own members of the Roman Curia wanted to forego the dramatic musical pleasures, so they gave established opera composers such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Caldara theatrical spiritual texts to set to music. These new works were performed in the oratories, the prayer rooms of monasteries, without any staging or set. This is how a genre got its name, the oratorio, and it was in essence, musically identical to opera.
One of the most famous arias by Georg Frideric Handel, his Lascia ch’io pianga which is well known from his hugely popular opera Rinaldo, originally comes from his first oratorio “Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno”.
The genre became just as successful as opera, and as opera moved into the 20th & 21st centuries with modern rock operas like Tommy by The Who, the oratorio has also evolved, with works such as “Luther” by Dieter Falk.
Beside Thy Cradle, BWV 248
for: Two-Part Treble Voices [SA], Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037783
Oratorium
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904407
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light, BWV 248
for: SAB, Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1040334
Oratorium
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1038739
Oratorium
for: TTBB Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 903358
Textausgabe
Reclams Textbücher
Lyric book
Item no.: 472630
Gemeinde-Oratorium
Annäherungen an die heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single parts Trombones/Tuba
Item no.: 1556510
Autographe Notenhandschrift im Faksimile; erste Partiturseite des Weihnachtsoratoriums
Beginn des Eingangchores und des Rezitatives "Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit"
Postcard
Item no.: 331582
4st. gemischter Chor, 2 V, Vc, Bc
Item no.: 429400
zum Singen und Spielen
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Vocal score
Item no.: 1543985
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
Oratorium nach einem Text von Gerhard Monninger
für Erzähler, Bariton, gemischten Chor und Instrumente
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), narrator, flute, alto saxophone, strings, piano
Flute, alto saxophone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 674141
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 1684651
Gemeinde-Oratorium
Annäherungen an die heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1556512
aus: Die Schöpfung Hob XXI:2
Autographe Notenhandschriften im Faksimile, 1796
Postcard
Item no.: 424555
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 690346
for: Youth choir
Choir score
Item no.: 487569
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 424134
Gemeinde-Oratorium
Annäherungen an die heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1556502
Krippenspiel für Soli, Kinderchor und Klavier
Chorstimme mit Texten
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 655292
Libretto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 1556004
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Single parts 1, 2 in B-flat (tenor saxophone/clarinet)
Item no.: 690348
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Ensemble score Violin 1,2
Item no.: 690347
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236018
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236019
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236021
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 177431
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223527
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1651456
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223526
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1161096
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223529
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 175998
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 2
Item no.: 175999
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score (children's choir)
Item no.: 235842
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 425284
aus dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung"
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 550941
Mit Orchesterbegleitung und leicht verändert integrierte Mendelssohn diese bereits 1844 entstandene achtstimmige A-cappella-Motette in den Elias.
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 279278
aus: Weihnachtshistorie
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 463617
aus: Christus-Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423059
aus dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung"
bearbeitet für dreistimmigen gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 550931
aus dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung"
bearbeitet für dreistimmigen Frauenchor und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 550930
aus: Messiah 1 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 279252
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 479332
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235680
Bereite dich, Zion
for: Unison Voices, Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037740
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235664
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 381195