Looking for a wide selection of Oratorios from various periods of music history, then you’ve come to the right place! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderfully dramatic sacred works on offer from Stretta Music today!
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.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1009485
Gemeinde-Oratorium
Annäherungen an die heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1556502
Schlußchor aus dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 486054
aus dem Oratorium Elias
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1043865
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
– Graduated prices on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685548
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1209971
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1665024
for: Violone
Item no.: 176435
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235591
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148789
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 234224
Libretto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 1556004
Passions-Oratorium in drei Teilen
Violine 1
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 384947
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Coro 1 - Viola
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671878
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 671873
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 150116
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623216
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 565446
Piano reduction
Item no.: 205735
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 261251
aus "Die Schöpfung"
for: Children's choir
Choir score
Item no.: 281044
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432289
Oratorium
for: Soli, Chor, Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 358934
Oratorium
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 371704
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680127
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680125
Oratorium für Soli und gem. Chor
Text nach der Hl. Schrift vom Komponisten
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307715
Oratorium für Soli, gem. Chor u. Orch.
Text von Franz Krieg unter Verwendung Villonscher Balladen
Piano reduction
Item no.: 307732
for: Viola
Item no.: 179635
Oper/Operette
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 260708
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen (komplett) (complete)
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 174280
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768587
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236021
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Complete Wind Parts
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235679
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1653578
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 423943
a. d. Oratorium "Der Messias"
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304441
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223526
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232804
Oratorium
Urtext - Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1678651
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 625775
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685553
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 565450
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 564337
Oratorium für drei Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 658222
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 643748
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 247413
Oratorium
for: Voice (alto)
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 431199