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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.
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235682
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424062
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 423936
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
Violin 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 674142
Oratorium für Gründonnerstag und Karfreitag
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235853
Passions-Oratorium in drei Teilen
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 384946
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Violin 2b (orchestral part)
Item no.: 459768
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 655232
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 305666
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single parts Trumpets 1–3 (B-flat)
Item no.: 498994
Aus "Die Schöpfung"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Single part Organ
Item no.: 690990
Oratorium
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Oboe (orchestral part)
Item no.: 498991
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 232081
based on "The Creation" by Joseph Haydn
Sacred music from Salzburg
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691971
Part 2 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235684
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 779142
Osterhistorie
for: 4 soloists (SSAT), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230468
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424061
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681268
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116683
for mixed chorus and harp
score (= vocal score)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), harp [piano]
Piano score
Item no.: 198585
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 279276
for: Flute / Oboe / Mallet Percussion
Book, CD
Item no.: 475132
Kantaten I - VI
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425512
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 333927
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 357376
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 425525
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) [6 voices], 2 violins, basso continuo; instruments colla parte ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 603998
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 565514
for: Choir, Organ and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 298619
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/6
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 185389
Eine Geschichte
for: Blockflöte(n)
Teacher's book
Item no.: 781292
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 139084
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 473344
Piano reduction
Item no.: 241834
Weihnachtsoratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), strings, bandoneon, piano, timpani, percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 628658
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302773
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 607101
Christmas Oratorio
New Urtext Edition based on original sources
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 467962
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), strings, bandoneon, piano, timpani, percussion
Score
Item no.: 628663
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Graduated prices on request
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 187768
for: Treble recorder, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 664812
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 276112
Volume 3: Cantatas, Masses, Christmas Oratorio, Works for Orchestra
Musica Rara
for: Horn
Music score
Item no.: 193984
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Score
Item no.: 422849
from the Christmas Oratorio
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726121
editionchor
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir book
Item no.: 607833
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 625164
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