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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: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 144974
for: Soli ATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1587063
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 635715
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 148354
for: Kinderchor (1-4stimmig), 2 Sprecher, Orchester (Perkussion, 3 Xyl, Metal, Glockenspiel, 3 Blockflöten, Akkordeon (Orgel), Kontrabass, Gitarre)
Score
Item no.: 231249
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 425337
Oratorium in 3 Teilen
Kombinationsangebot: Partitur + Playback-CD
for: Soloists, mixed choir, big band
Score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 1024572
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 237598
Bearbeitet von Matthias Gromer für 10 Blechbläser.
for: Brass ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609806
Eine tierisch-afrikanische Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Musik
CD
Item no.: 244795
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 1688191
Gospel-Oratorium zur Weihnachtsgeschichte nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 139127
aus: Messiah (Nr. 1215)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 236015
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Lukas unter Verwendung bekannter und weniger bekannter Weihnachtslieder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 149194
for: 4 recorders (quartet)
Score
Item no.: 167302
Score
Item no.: 191915
for: Singstimme (S), Sprecher, gemischter Chor, Instrument
Score
Item no.: 342668
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 974170
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt plattdeutsch
Item no.: 733745
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 748089
Opera-extravaganza in 2 acts
Study score
Item no.: 737161
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045643
for: BLECH / HBL QUARTETT
Item no.: 161729
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Score
Item no.: 1337241
Brieger Christnacht 1944
Katholische Textfassung
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 488722
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 921184
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317701
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Partitur
Item no.: 247528
for: Narrator, mixed choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 226667
for: Tenor solo, Gemischter Chor
Score
Item no.: 115622
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284227
for: Sopran solo, Alte solo (3), Tenöre solo (3), Bässe solo (3), Gemischter Chor: SSATTB, Alt-Blockflöten (2), Fagott, Trompeten (2), Posaunen (2), Streicher, Basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 196700
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 669280
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinderchor und Ensemble (Grundschul-Musical)
Gesamtausgabe & CD
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score, CD
Item no.: 649863
for organ
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 670755
for: Sopran-Blockflöte, Alt-Blockflöte
Stimme
Item no.: 214581
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score (children's choir)
Item no.: 235842
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 490788
for: Soli, div. Sprecher, Kinderchor (4stimmig), 2 Saxophone (SA), Keyboard, Klavier, Bass-Gitarre, Congas/Perc
Score
Item no.: 175304
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 189496
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 137845
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Score
Item no.: 288531
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 210134
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236157
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Bass guitar (single part)
Item no.: 690349
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236155