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.
From the Oratorio "The Messiah"
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 469495
Motette für zwei gemischte Chöre (SATB, SATB)
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 378740
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1687873
based on Words from the Holy Scriptures
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1677209
aus dem Oratorium "Samson"
for: 2 trumpets, organ
Organ score, solo parts
Item no.: 603003
Die biblische Erzählung in ihrer kulturgeschichtlichen Rezeption
Musik im Kanon der Künste 4
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 817464
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177704
"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
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 565447
from Trois Gymnopédies
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 340533
Zur Textverarbeitung und Textvertonung in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys "Paulus" und "Elias"
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 172257
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
nach der Abschrift von J.S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492346
Schlusschoral aus der Johannes-Passion
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751725
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280692
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 772543
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 321853
for: SSA and Piano Accompaniment or Organ Accompaniment
Choir score
Item no.: 865546
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 279278
for: Tiefe Singstimme und Tasteninstrument
Score
Item no.: 361358
Score
Item no.: 638236
for: Soli (SATB), gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (Posaune, Streicher), Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 153824
for: SOLI GCH KCH ORCH
Score
Item no.: 205734
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1338936
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 228597
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Score
Item no.: 765919
Piano reduction
Item no.: 380592
Passion Oratorio
New Edition
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Piano reduction
Item no.: 681241
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 810201
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 153281
Oratorium (komplett) (complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 246280
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 316585
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1547858
NGL-Oratorium
Chorpartitur
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 333950
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 798962
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 353124
Oratorio
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 490811
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 321291
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317703
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir, orchestra, electronics
Piano reduction
Item no.: 935001
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir part Soprano 1
Item no.: 1108928
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745508
Lyric book
Item no.: 301083
BWV 244
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 691983
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 289315
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 138521
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586751
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 342843
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Item no.: 106529
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 627264