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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: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 189238
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 793500
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]; orchestra ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 345358
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663805
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 330416
for: Soprano, Tenor, Bass Voice, SATB, Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145074
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 623165
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423059
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA) [children's choir], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 184997
for: 2 flutes, piano [organ]
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 313650
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: SOLI GCH HA STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 467961
for: Gemischter Chor: SSATTB
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 163823
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114738
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116209
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [harmonium]
Choir score
Item no.: 123872
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Kinderchor, Soli (SSAATB), 6 Sprecher und Instrumente
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352090
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 153323
Lyric book
Item no.: 199297
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964710
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 298436
Kommentierung des Textes aus theologischer Sicht von Paul-Gerhard Nohl
Book
Item no.: 476872
Weihnachtsgedichte
Book
Item no.: 657667
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 371538
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Lukas unter Verwendung bekannter und weniger bekannter Weihnachtslieder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 311315
Weihnachtskonzert
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1656093
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660273
Weihnachtsoratorium (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Item no.: 319067
CD mit Erzählung und 10 Liedern zu Daniel und 4 Adventsliedern
CD
Item no.: 343802
for: VoiceTrax CD
CD
Item no.: 798590
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235985
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 656268
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 480296
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 607411
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 432994
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 114739
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme Klavier (Orchester)
Item no.: 748090
from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738270
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 739198
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
for: Voice (medium/low), basso continuo [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 2755
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 458296
for: BÜHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE KINDERKANTATEN
Score, Parts
Item no.: 245261
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681478
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Complete orchestral parts
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649420
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423795
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 179907
for: KCH 2 FL KLAV
Partitur
Item no.: 618904
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 462812