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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.
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 380007
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1704023
for: Opera
Score
Item no.: 1548605
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 276767
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280118
for: Soprane solo (4), Mezzosopran solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Flöte, Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Pauke, Violinen (2), Violen (2), Bassi, Violinen (2) (ripieno), Violen (2) (ripiena), Bassi (ripieni)
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 657043
For the 8th to 19th Sunday after Trinity
Telemann Musical Works 59
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772797
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 820040
for: Recorder and Windensemble
Book
Item no.: 1653366
Oratorio
for: 6 soloists (SMezATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 850919
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1703403
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1037828
for two concert organs (4 hands)
for: 2 organs (4 hands)
Organ score
Item no.: 668599
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Piano reduction
Item no.: 175611
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 174392
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 597133
Overture to the Oratorio
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749224
Oratorio
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SATB), Soli (SATB) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 738768
for: Mixed choir, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590137
Works for Viola and Percussion
for: Viola und Schlagzeug (1 Spieler: Marimbaphon, Vibraphon, Woodblock, Thai Gong, Marimbaphon, Tamtam, hängendes Becken)
Spielpartitur 2 Exemplare erforderlich
Item no.: 751123
for: Soli S (A) Tuba, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte, Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Horn, Trompeten (2), Pauke, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1337385
for: Soli SATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (4), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Serpente, Pauke, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337257
for: Voice (tenor)
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1024504
Oratorio
EMB Study Scores
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 256629
for: Choir a Cappella
Study score
Item no.: 171200
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 145779
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 377436
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 180208
Ein Osterspiel
for: Sopran, Bass, Schauspieler, Chor, Knabenchor und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 746567
for: SATB and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 321293
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 273936
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 428300
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284232
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], organ
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1467
mit 56 Abb. und 64 Notenbeispielen und Tabellen
Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen 10/1
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 274859
Oratorium
Gesamtpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Study score
Item no.: 562455
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683750
"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
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486489
Roma 1678
for: Flexible ensemble
Music score
Item no.: 780887
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 624718
Oratorium
for: Trumpet, organ
Buch
Item no.: 481915
Oratorium in zwei Teilen
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES-CD 21
Estonian Classics
Piano reduction
Item no.: 341291
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237395
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1013737
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1013735
Sinfonia zum 3. Akt des Oratoriums "Salomon" HWV 67
oder Flötenorchester
for: 4 FL / FL ORCH
Item no.: 1653624
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
Audio-CD
Item no.: 141592
"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.: 647876