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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.
aus: Elias op. 70, Zweiter Teil, Terzett ("Engelterzett")
for: Women's choir (SSA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 388237
a Symphonic Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SMezTBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1013970
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 339842
Early version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 459769
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 261252
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
Flute, alto saxophone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 674141
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen
Soli: SATB - Chor: SATB - 2.2.0.0 - 0.3.0.0 - Pk - Str - Bc
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 655247
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 681271
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043129
Fassung II
for: Organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 640919
Oratorium
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 345965
Weihnachtsoratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), strings, bandoneon, piano, timpani, percussion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 628658
Oratorium in Festo Nativitatis Christi (GraunWV Bv:IX:18)
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 302773
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 481480
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433324
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017415
Eine (nicht) alltägliche Weihnachtsgeschichte
für 2 Erzähler (Kind & Erwachsener), Chor (opt.) und Blasorchester
for: Narrator, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671413
Oratorium
for: TTBB Keyboard [Organ or Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1037399
für Sprecher, Soli, Kinderchor und kleines Orchester
Für Kinder ab 8 Jahren geeignet.
Orff-Schulwerk
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 1660026
from "A Ceremony of Carols" op. 28
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 688971
No. 10 of Oratorio de Noel op. 12
Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 772288
Oratorium
for: SATB and Keyboard
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 904407
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 622829
Ein Singspiel nach Lukas 2,1-20 für Kinder- und Jugendchor und Klavier (Flöte/Klarinette/Schlagzeug ad lib)
Partitur mit Aufführungshinweisen
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 654931
Seltene Musik zur Weihnachtszeit
Audio-CD
Item no.: 228163
Das Ottowinder Christspiel
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Kinderchor, mit Soli ad libitum, Sprecher, Gemeindegesang, Orgel oder Blas- und Streichinstrumente sowie Instrumentalkreis (Stabspiele, Schlagwerk)
Score
Item no.: 352815
aus dem "Oratorio de Noël op. 12"
F-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 604746
Ein musikalischer Adventskalender für Musikschule, Schule, Kindergarten und Familie
24 Spielmodelle für kleines Schlagwerk, Stabspiele, Melodie- und Selbstbauinstrumente
for: Schlagwerk, Stabspiele, Melodieinstrument, Selbstbauinstrumente
Ensemble score
Item no.: 118090
Eine Geschichte für Blockflöte(n).
for: ST VOEGEL
ST VOEGEL
Item no.: 134951
Kantate
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 339933
Audio-CD
Item no.: 336631
Voce Con Tromba Nr 8a
for: Voice (bass), trumpet, organ
Organ score, Parts
Item no.: 160409
Weihnachtskonzert
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 138732
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisenop. 85
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 445933
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisenop. 85
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Score
Item no.: 288451
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 433020
Gothic print
– Price reduction possible for orders of larger quantities –
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB)
Choir score
Item no.: 114770
Zwei Minimusicals zur Adventszeit und zwei Krippenspiele
Playback-CD
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 496601
Kirchenoratorium
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 235843
Böhmische Hirtenmesse
Frei gedichteter Messtext alternativ in deutscher oder tschechischer Sprache
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237200
For God so loved this sinful world
from: Geistliche Chormusik
for: Mixed choir (SATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 231819
Kantate für die Weihnachtszeit
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 162090
Klassik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 604201
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
Piano score XL in large, reader-friendly print
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 663110
Geistliche Musik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 363181
Oratorium
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873132
Arie aus dem Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018883
Wolcum Yole!
for: Children's Choir oder Female Choir [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498358
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