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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: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 463617
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 377397
Weihnachtsoratorium für Soli, Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 578677
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317721
for: SATB and Chamber Orchestra
Book
Item no.: 479245
for: Orgel, Basso continuo
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 869431
for: Treble recorder
Stimme
Item no.: 214582
for: Descant recorder
Stimme
Item no.: 214580
for: Chor, Orchester
Score
Item no.: 115285
for: TTBB Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 903358
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 1677745
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 141449
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 298435
Book (Libretto with dialogs)
Item no.: 134950
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 445805
Postcard
Item no.: 602566
for: ST MENSCHEN
ST MENSCHEN
Item no.: 134953
for: Children's choir, actors, instruments
Book
Item no.: 496599
for: Children's choir, performer
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 443967
for: Soloists, children's choir, piano [band]
Piano score
Item no.: 406426
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Klavier, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1337848
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 179130
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 149572
Audio-CD
Item no.: 174860
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 147575
Krippenspiel für Soli, Kinderchor und Klavier
Chorstimme mit Texten
for: Children's choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 655292
Audio-CD
Item no.: 158512
Eine tierisch-afrikanische Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Musik
for: Soli, div. Sprecher, Kinderchor (4stimmig), 2 Saxophone (SA), Keyboard, Klavier, Bass-Gitarre, Congas/Perc
CD
Item no.: 425025
KV 49
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 1556909
1- bis 4-stimmige Arrangements für Singstimme(n)
Item no.: 421854
Eine Troll- und Menschengeschichte
Book
Item no.: 140523
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Songs, Spirituals und Sprechtexten nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
Basisausgabe für Männerchor
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), narrator; guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 191566
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Kinderchor, Soli (SSAATB), 6 Sprecher und Instrumente
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352090
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 189336
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 160198
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1677134
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423059
for: Solo (B), gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 361390
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229786
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 635702
for: Soloist (boy), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 578525
for: Soloist (soprano), children's choir (1 voice), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 279122
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663947
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: SOLI GCH HA STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 467961
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Study score
Item no.: 164116
Jauchzet, ihr Himmel! Erfreue dich, Erde!
Michaelsteiner Musik-Archiv 2
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 606244
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103113
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