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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.
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
Oratorium für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Englischer Originaltext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382295
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116686
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155706
Oratorio
MWV A 14
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470975
Für den Klavierauszug (Orgel) und die Chorpartitur gelten Mengenpreise
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 119521
Psaume symphonique en trois parties – Symphonischer Psalm in drei Teilen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374559
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404234
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 137420
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
An unfinished Oratorio
Erde, Hölle und Himmel (MWV A 26)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318553
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
Klavierauszug XL im Großdruck englisch
with variant movements
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661149
Eine Kantate für: Tenor-Solo, gemischten Chor, KInderchor, Klavier, Streicher, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680065
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
Postcard
Item no.: 557063
Dover Full Scores
for: Orchestra and Mixed Voices
Score
Item no.: 190889
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486523
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
Klavierauszug
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 147051
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
Sinfonia zum 3. Akt des Oratoriums "Salomon"
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487798
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492827
The New Novello Choral Edition
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 396045
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205767
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235742
Oratorio in 3 Parts for Soloists (SATB), Choir and Orchestra (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379050
An oratorio
spiral-bound
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 880348
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340622
Passio secundum Marcum
First version, first performed in Weimar around 1713 by J. S. Bach
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241833
A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695978
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 779138
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1672375
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 423886
Oratorio in three acts HWV 70
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 564544
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 618711
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205756
for low voice and piano
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 404235
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung II (1725)
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 426010