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.
Evangelisten-Stimme für einen Solisten oder einstimmigen Chor
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Single part voice
Item no.: 489054
Weihnachtsoratorium (Erstdruck)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, organ; 2 horns ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 657000
for: Solo (B), gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424572
Aus dem Oratorium 'Die Schöpfung'
Für gemischten Chor und Orchester oder Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 667420
Item no.: 610758
für gemischten Chor und Klavier
"Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 681224
aus: Elias op. 70
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 797282
Will in schmerzlicher Kummerzeit
aus dem Oratorium Elias
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043850
Engelterzett aus "Elias"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1655276
aus: Elias op. 70
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1681987
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
Engelterzett aus "Elias"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 640915
Eine Geschichte
for: Blockflöte(n)
Stimmensatz Menschen
Item no.: 781295
Beside thy Cradle, BWV 248
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1037828
Beside Thy Cradle, BWV 248
for: Two-Part Treble Voices [SA], Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037783
Nr. 11 aus der "Weihnachtsgeschichte"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 732283
aus "Die Schöpfung"
for: Frauen- oder Kinderchor (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 737657
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Choir score
Item no.: 729183
Nr. 14 aus der "Weihnachtsgeschichte"
for: Mixed choir (SABar), piano
Music score
Item no.: 722943
from the „Christmas Oratorio”
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 780010
"Nacht, mehr denn lichte Nacht"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751800
Oratorium
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904407
Engelterzett aus dem Oratorium "Elias"
for: 3 gleiche Stimmen
Choir score
Item no.: 746812
Schlusschoral aus der Johannes-Passion
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751725
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
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt bayrisch
Item no.: 729202
Oratorium
for: TTBB Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 903358
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt rheinhessisch
Item no.: 740991
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt schwäbisch
Item no.: 734013
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt plattdeutsch
Item no.: 733745
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
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
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
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
Libretto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 1556004
Krippenspiel für Soli, Kinderchor und Klavier
Chorstimme mit Texten
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 655292
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Single parts 1, 2 in B-flat (tenor saxophone/clarinet)
Item no.: 690348