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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: Soli (STB), gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester (Harfe)
Piano reduction
Item no.: 357456
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 341655
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 560832
for: SSATB Singstimmen, Streicher und Basso continuo
Conductor score
Item no.: 550006
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 636337
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 188628
(Collection)
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 373949
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 674490
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 229976
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 205766
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 674194
Aus dem Oratorium 'Die Schöpfung'
Für gemischten Chor und Orchester oder Orgel allein
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 667420
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 379047
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 190148
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 746231
for: Basso continuo
Single part
Item no.: 156720
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 179057
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 261250
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 492455
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola da gamba (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671884
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 490896
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 642786
Oratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1664786
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 223591
Oratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 476446
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 231779
for: SATB and Chamber Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 802425
Oratorio HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 379048
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 662618
Oratorium
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 680647
(Oratorio)
The Phillip Brookes Collection
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1340741
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 231780
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Soprano 1, 2
Item no.: 209770
Oratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 476448
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 550947
Oratorium HWV 56
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1670603
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 460657
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (men voices)
Item no.: 493758
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 550952
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 550950
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235568
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 648589
Klassik
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103329
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Lyric book
Item no.: 205774
Hob. XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 762326
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 672641
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 193949
Oratorium
Teilband 1 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476450