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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.
Bearbeitung der Matthäus-Passion von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615909
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1615932
mit Werken von Christian Heinrich Rinck (1770-1846)
for: Narrator, organ
Score
Item no.: 1657316
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582667
Geistliches Oratorium in drei Abteilungenop. 66
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1556305
for: Children's choir [women's choir] (SSA), flute, clarinet, strings, harp
Score
Item no.: 1555843
Geistliches Oratorium in drei Abteilungen
Erste Abteilung: Advent und Weihnachten
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1551885
nach Lukas 2, 1-21
for: 3 alphorns, narrator
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1549954
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478480
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478481
(Elias)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1346384
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340622
for: School class
Book, CD
Item no.: 1207674
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340623
Arrangement for chamber orchestra (arr. J. Linckelmann)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1340583
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Music score
Item no.: 820110
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1215619
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043129
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1209973
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 1161096
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1160914
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Soprano 1
Item no.: 1108928
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 1108933
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 1108932
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1
Item no.: 1108906
Will in schmerzlicher Kummerzeit
aus dem Oratorium Elias
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043850
aus dem Oratorium Elias
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Vocal score
Item no.: 1043865
Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1043058
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts), organ, timpani, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1037863
sotto l'imperio di Sedecia, ultimo re d'Israelle
Oratorii – Vol. 3
for: Voices, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 1025253
Music Minus One
for: Voice (tenor)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1024504
Oratorio Op. 25/CFF 185, 1869-1879
Musique sacrée française
for: 8 soloists (SMezATTBarBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1023733
Oratorio Op. 25/CFF 185, 1869-1879
Musique sacrée française
for: 8 soloists (SMezATTBarBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1023732
Oratorio in two Parts
Rome 1707
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1022131
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018880
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018883
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018882
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018884
Himmelfahrtsoratorium, Osteroratorium, Weihnachtsoratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 1018175
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017415
Vier Sätze aus dem Entwurf eines Weihnachtsoratoriums
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 1
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1008794
Drei Sätze aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium op. 12
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 75
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1008783
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008621
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008623
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 797093
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 796827
aus "The Messiah"
for: Trumpet, piano
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 796722
Roma 1678
for: Flexible ensemble
Music score
Item no.: 780887