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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.
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 373398
Abridged Concert Edition – gekürzte Ausgabe
Weltliches Oratorium HWV 58
Special Order Edition
Spiralbindung
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1671819
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674685
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 1658375
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 677245
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205773
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 188181
First Edition
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 154584
Oratorium für drei Solostimmen (STB), gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1651804
Oratorio
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 476444
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 142458
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327527
Oratorio in Three Parts HWV 56
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116219
Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 244453
from: The Messiah, 2nd Part, No. 31 F major
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra [organ]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 236034
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1658547
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008621
D Dorian
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 499014
for: F/Eb Horn
Book, CD
Item no.: 614998
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475479
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Choir part Tenor 1, 2
Item no.: 432057
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 643470
for: Favorit choir (SSSATTBarB), mixed choir (SATB), 4 viole da gamba, basso continuo [organ]
Score
Item no.: 425139
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 661157
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 670340
for: Solostimmen (SATB), gemischter Chor und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 354254
Oratorio
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 359617
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 181055
with piano accompaniment (Fragments from oratorios)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 198591
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 677222
for: Voices, string orchestra, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009507
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 657036
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170209
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 151261
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 202353
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 421945
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 373397
Hob. XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697311
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 677101
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 606591
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 661155
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 879020
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 771007
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
Oratorio
for Soli, Chorus and Orchestra
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284222
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 550956
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
URTEXT Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
deutsch / englisch (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 608628
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