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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.
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
– Graduated prices on request –
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685547
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.: 1660301
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
Erste kritische Ausgabe (Fassungen von 1747 und 1758/59)
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677322
(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
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1665022
Oratorio for Solo Voices, Chorus and Orchestra
New edition based on original sources (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 147113
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 464766
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 357376
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Graduated prices on request
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 187768
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Item no.: 205754
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670933
Oratorio de Noël (Ausgabe nach dem Erstdruck von 1869)
Fassung mit deutschem Text
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 136748
for: Gemischter Chor
Choir score
Item no.: 342102
Ein musikalisches Weihnachtsspiel
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 607121
zum Evangelischen Gesangsbuch
Hessen und Nassau / Kurhessen-Waldeck
for: Brass ensemble
Score
Item no.: 177890
Geistliches Oratorium in drei Abteilungen
Erste Abteilung: Advent und Weihnachten
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1551885
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215621
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235844
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210130
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part Recorder
Item no.: 144976
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
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
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235742
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460660
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444394
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
erzählt von Albrecht Trebies; Sprecher: Helmut Lohner; Einrichtung der Musikstücke: Michael Rüggeberg
Audio-CD
Item no.: 1665411
Klassik
for: Recorder and Windensemble
Book
Item no.: 1653366
aus dem Oratorium "Elias", op. 70
Dieser Artikel wird einzeln nur mit Antikopierpunkt geliefert!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 347301
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 175611
based on "The Creation" by Joseph Haydn
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1671803
Oratorium
Zusammenstellung aus Sätzen Bachscher Kantaten
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1659618
Music Minus One
for: Voice (tenor)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1024504
aus dem Oratorium "Solomon" HWV67
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762447
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 137420
Abridged Concert Edition – gekürzte Ausgabe
Weltliches Oratorium HWV 58
Special Order Edition
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1671819