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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.
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
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Item no.: 367691
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 343751
Oratorium
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 562883
Die Geschichte des Leidens und Sterbens unseres Heilandes Jesu Christi nach der Beschreibung des Evanglisten Marcus HoWV I.10
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Item no.: 605231
CD
Item no.: 362861
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Kinderchor und Soli (SBar) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1670060
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 635406
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 819243
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 562882
for: Organ
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 373403
Lyric book
Item no.: 120386
for: Orchestral Parts
Score
Item no.: 172916
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 369095
for: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass Voice SATB Organ Accompaniment
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 244973
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1669061
for: Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bässe solo (2), Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Oboe d'amore, Fagotte (2), Horn, Trompeten (3), Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo (Cembalo, Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584024
for: Soprane solo (2), Alte solo (2), Tenor solo, Bässe solo (2), Gemischte Chöre (SATB) (2), Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Pauke, Streicher, Basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 289273
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1556305
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 477545
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284392
for: 4 FL / FL ORCH
Item no.: 163987
for: SATB Orchestra
Book
Item no.: 322179
Piano reduction
Item no.: 200132
Oratorio after Dostoyevsky by Leo Borchard
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 134188
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590114
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 667959
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235590
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 673068
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 550941
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 339187
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177702
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470974
Arrangement for chamber orchestra (arr. J. Linckelmann)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1340583
for: Mixed choir; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 563568
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 229633
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 229624
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680889
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232803
Himmelfahrtsoratorium (Faksimile) (Facsimile)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Book
Item no.: 210943
for: Solo (A/S/T), gemischter Chor (SATB), Oboe, Violine, Orgel, [Viola]
Score
Item no.: 237841
Piano reduction
Item no.: 202359
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (Libretto with dialogs)
Item no.: 492980
Fassung IV
Passio secundum Joannem
Postcard
Item no.: 1684651
aus dem Oratorium »Elias«
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671618
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Set of parts
Item no.: 768592
"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