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.
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part
Item no.: 144980
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 230448
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235988
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236159
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 175998
for: Concert band
Item no.: 343896
Item no.: 618535
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Einzelstimme Pauke/Schlagzeug
Item no.: 748101
"Nacht, mehr denn lichte Nacht"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751800
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018883
for: Soli ATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel
Item no.: 1587064
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Item no.: 1355820
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Item no.: 1355819
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1355814
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1013024
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116210
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 482972
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
for: Children's Choir oder Female Choir [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498358
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873132
for: Solo (B), gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424569
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 236783
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235663
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235660
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237600
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Complete Orchestral Parts
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 683340
Shawnee Press
for: SATB and Flute
Choir score
Item no.: 617134
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215620
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Bassoon 2
Item no.: 237613
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Flute 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681833
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Kinderchor (SMezA) mit Soli, Sprecher und Instrumenten
Einzelstimme Streicher/Laute/Gitarre
Item no.: 729219
(Luk. 2, 1-20, Kürzinger)
for: Vorsänger und 2-stg. Kinderchor; 2 Instrumente (A-Bfl, V) ad libitum
Choir score
Item no.: 729201
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1355815
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 205526
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 867621
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913749
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764118
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160603
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 184360
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482970
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482969
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116211
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210131
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 343029
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343028
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018882
Audio-CD
Item no.: 158787
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215621