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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.
Variationen über die Bergpredigt. Oratoriumop. 106
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Kinderchor und Soli (SBar) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670060
Oratorium
für Mezzosopran, Baßbariton, gem Chor und 15 Instrumente
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1669061
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 562883
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 562882
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Soprano in ripieno, Cantus-Firmus-Choralchor
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1664712
aus dem Oratorium "Die Schöpfung"
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor und Orgel
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 550941
Orgelwerke zur Osterzeit 2
for: Organ
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 373403
Raphaels Auftrag
Ein Kinderkonzert für drei sprechende und singende Erzengel, himmlische Heerscharen und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (Libretto with dialogs)
Item no.: 492980
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470974
"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
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1659347
"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
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1658687
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1655640
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 1684651
Rezitative und turbae von Reinhard Keiser (1674-1739)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 180034
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1667065
Gemeinde-Oratorium
for: Soloist, rapper, narrator, 2 choirs (satb/sam), trombone choir, band, organ
Score
Item no.: 692652
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 9
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677168
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1687873
based on Words from the Holy Scriptures
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677209
für Sopran und Klavier
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 1658405
Oratorium
Audio - Doppel-CD
2 CDs (without sheet music)
Item no.: 1665508
Sacred Oratorios
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 1671556
NGL-Oratorium
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333950
Passion Oratorio
New Edition
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Piano reduction
Item no.: 681241
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 627264
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284242
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745508
Kammerchor Stuttgart
Barockorchester Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 672041
Engelterzett aus "Elias"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1655276
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Lyric book
Item no.: 1652975
based on "The Creation" by Joseph Haydn
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 470984
Oratorium
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 691372
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382975
Oratorio in three parts by George Frideric Handel
in the arrangement of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116412
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 475480
aus: Elias op. 70
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1681987
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 620237
Wort//Werk//Wirkung
Book (Hardcover), CD
Item no.: 696376
The Masterworks Library
for: Narrator, soloists, male choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 297539
Oratorio in two Parts
Rome 1707
for: Voices, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1022131
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1659722
Zusammenstellung aus Sätzen Bachscher Kantaten
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1660649
Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Oratoriums im 20. Jahrhundert
Beiträge zur Musikforschung 11
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 209482
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
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392141
Oratorium Wtq 240
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 394760
Pop-Oratorium - Das Projekt der tausend Stimmen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 664810
with variant movements, german
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Editions
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 559531