Looking for a wide selection of Oratorios from various periods of music history, then you’ve come to the right place! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderfully dramatic sacred works on offer from Stretta Music today!
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.
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Lukas unter Verwendung bekannter und weniger bekannter Weihnachtslieder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 158026
for: 2 soloists (SA), favorit choir (SSATB), 5 melodic instruments, organ
Score
Item no.: 231807
op. 54
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Chorpartitur mit Soli
Item no.: 725960
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt rheinhessisch
Item no.: 740991
Evangelisten-Stimme für einen Solisten oder einstimmigen Chor
Brieger Christnacht 1944
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor, strings, organ
Single part voice
Item no.: 489054
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 335363
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160604
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Viola
Item no.: 135944
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343026
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236786
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236785
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587159
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 601648
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Single parts 1, 2 in B-flat (tenor saxophone/clarinet)
Item no.: 690348
Audio-CD
Item no.: 158894
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 587158
Score
Item no.: 558335
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Textblatt schwäbisch
Item no.: 734013
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 738655
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1008794
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764116
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 174736
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Viola
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482971
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236787
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235848
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 343266
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 579651
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 242907
Lyric book
Item no.: 552132
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Einzelstimme Blockflöte
Item no.: 729205
for: Soli SMsATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel, Harfe
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1337000
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1008783
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, bassoon, violone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210133
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 183718
for: Vorsänger und 2-stg. Kinderchor; 2 Instrumente (A-Bfl, V) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 103222
for: Children's Choir [Female Choir] [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498361
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187751
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 641396
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 772863
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 797101
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Fagott, 2 Violinen, Viola, Kontrabass, Orgel, [4 Instr]
Score
Item no.: 425149
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 175997
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 175996
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 175994
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235846
op. 54
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 752326
op. 54
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 730086
op. 54
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 730090