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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: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 378019
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 377436
for: Soli S (A) Tuba, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte, Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Horn, Trompeten (2), Pauke, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1337385
for: Soli SATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Klarinetten (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (4), Trompeten (2), Posaunen (3), Serpente, Pauke, Violinen (2), Viola, Cello, Kontrabass, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337257
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella; organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 497277
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SAB), combo
Score
Item no.: 685063
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 348262
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, cello, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 119718
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169346
for: 2 soloists (ABar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 380007
for: Choir a Cappella
Study score
Item no.: 171200
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 273936
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 1704023
for: Opera
Score
Item no.: 1548605
for: SATB and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 321293
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 276767
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 280118
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1703403
for: Soprane solo (4), Mezzosopran solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB), Flöte, Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Pauke, Violinen (2), Violen (2), Bassi, Violinen (2) (ripieno), Violen (2) (ripiena), Bassi (ripieni)
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 657043
For the 8th to 19th Sunday after Trinity
Telemann Musical Works 59
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772797
Oratorio on Words from the Holy Scriptures
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 428300
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 145779
Oratorio
for: 6 soloists (SMezATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 850919
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 597133
for: Soloists, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 820040
for: Recorder and Windensemble
Book
Item no.: 1653366
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284232
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) [8 voices], organ
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1467
Oratorio
EMB Study Scores
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 256629
mit 56 Abb. und 64 Notenbeispielen und Tabellen
Handbuch der musikalischen Gattungen 10/1
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 274859
oratiorio for soli, chorus and orchestra
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1654293
Oratorium
Gesamtpartitur
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Study score
Item no.: 562455
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683750
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486489
Roma 1678
for: Flexible ensemble
Music score
Item no.: 780887
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 624718
Oratorium
for: Trumpet, organ
Buch
Item no.: 481915
Oratorium in zwei Teilen
Veröffentlicht auf CD: ERES-CD 21
Estonian Classics
Piano reduction
Item no.: 341291
Die Geschichte des Leidens und Sterbens unseres Heilandes Jesu Christi nach der Beschreibung des Evanglisten Marcus HoWV I.10
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605233
Schriftenreihe der Internat. Bachakademie Stuttgart 2/5
CD-ROM
Item no.: 466128
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237395
Geistliche Musik
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590126
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1013737
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1013735
Sinfonia zum 3. Akt des Oratoriums "Salomon" HWV 67
oder Flötenorchester
for: 4 FL / FL ORCH
Item no.: 1653624
Oratorium nach einem Text von Gerhard Monninger
für Erzähler, Bariton, gemischten Chor und Instrumente
for: Solo voice (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), narrator, flute, alto saxophone, strings, piano
Audio-CD
Item no.: 141592
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 647876
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 444392