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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.
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470974
Choralkantate
Den Vokalstimmen wurde ein singbarer englischer Zweittext unterlegt.
for: Solo (A/S/T), gemischter Chor (SATB), Oboe, Violine, Orgel, [Viola]
Score
Item no.: 237841
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 662618
An Oratorio in seven parts for Soprano, Baritone and Mixed Voices
for: SATB and Chamber Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 802425
Oratorio HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 379048
Chor 2
Sonderanfertigung
for: Flute
Single part Flute 1
Item no.: 1684634
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 462090
Oratorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274639
Score
Item no.: 562198
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 277620
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 564342
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 313469
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 313468
Oratorium für Soli, Sprecher, gemischten Chor, Tonband, Cembalo, Orgel und Orchester nach Texten der Hl. Schrift und unter Verwendung des Buches Pfa
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308199
4st. gemischter Chor, 2 V, Vc, Bc
Item no.: 429400
für gemischten Chor und Klavier
"Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 492417
Fassung für Oboe, Trompete, Klavier, Kontrabass (SAM)
Instrumentalstimmen und Chorpartituren auf Anfrage
for: Soloists, choir, piano, instruments
Score
Item no.: 585897
Ouvertüre zum Oratorium "La liberatrice del populo giudaico nella Persia ossia lEsther"
Erstdruck
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 282553
Oratoriumop. 105
for: gemischter Chor (unisono, Volksgesang) mit Orgel oder kleinem Orchester
Lyric book
Item no.: 173043
für drei Solostimmen, gemischten Chor und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 555788
for: Narrator, organ
Item no.: 555057
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
(Leineneinband)
Item no.: 219054
from the Oratorio Messiah HWV 56
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 332907
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 133384
Oratorium in drei Teilen
Violine 1
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 177677
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 625470
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Coro 1 - Violine 1
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671876
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 768588
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 685554
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola da gamba (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689998
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 229981
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 232818
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 205776
from the Oratorio Solomon
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 809138
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 208462
for: VA CHOR 2
Single part
Item no.: 364358
for: KLAR (T-SAX)
Single part
Item no.: 606322
Passions-Oratorium in drei Teilen
Viola
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 384945
Single part Organ
Item no.: 223095
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 779146
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235681
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1b (orchestral part)
Item no.: 459767
for: Flute / Oboe / Mallet Percussion
Book, CD
Item no.: 475132
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241834
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317716
The Christmas Story with songs, spirituals and words based on St. Luke's Gospel. SAA - Basic edition for treble choir, soli and narrator
for: Soloist (alto), women's choir (SAA), narrator; guitar/keyboard ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 216116
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 167469