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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: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score (women voices)
Item no.: 493757
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 168012
Version with a reduced wind set
based on the edition by Wolfgang Gersthofer
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 677698
Hob. XXII: 2
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1652437
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317746
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317729
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317711
Oratorio for solo voices (STB), mixed choir (SATB) and orchestra
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680591
aus: Messiah 1 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Choir part Soprano/Alto
Item no.: 279252
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340623
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205772
Effektive Unterstützung beim individuellen Einstudieren
Ausgabe für Sopran
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 661156
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 766210
Vocal version
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1008623
Edition Peters Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 482962
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 228901
for: Complete Vocal Score
Choir score
Item no.: 313177
Oratorio
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 121394
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 475463
Oratorio
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1345025
Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1043058
Oratorium in drei Akten
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) I/18,1+2
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 882558
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
– Graduated prices on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680553
Urtext Stuttgart Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 771676
Azione sacra
Erstausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 237394
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 676035
Oratorium
Hob. XXI:2
Urtext
Klavierauszug mit englischem Text
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 608617
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 156860
sotto l'imperio di Sedecia, ultimo re d'Israelle
Oratorii – Vol. 3
for: Voices, instruments
Music score
Item no.: 1025253
Oratorium für 5 Solostimmen (SSTBB), Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 146193
Hob. XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697310
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format)
Item no.: 665385
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 277979
Oratorio
Swiss Composers Series
for: 2 soloists (SB), narrator, mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1671779
Item no.: 1660575
"Gaff nicht in den Himmel..."
Lied-Oratorium für zwei Sprecher, zwei Solisten, gemischten Chor, E-Bass und Instrumente
for: Solo voices, mixed choir, narrator, flexible ensemble
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1657282
Oratorium in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1555932
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 479332
Textausgabe
Reclams Textbücher
Lyric book
Item no.: 472630
Oratorium
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 664007
Oratorium in zwei Teilen
Rom 1707
for: Voices, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868776
Rezeptionsgeschichte von 1739 bis zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Studien Stiftung Händel-Haus 4
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 665137
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 358947
aus der Matthäus-Passion
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Basso continuo (Orgel), Instrument ad libitum
Chorpartitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 117140
Bärenreiter Werkeinführungen
Book
Item no.: 483681
Oratorium in drei Teilen
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) I/29
for: Sopran solo, Mezzosopran solo, Alt solo, Tenöre solo (2), Bass solo, Gemischte Chöre (2), Flöten (2), Oboen (2), Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompeten (2), Pauke, Violinen (2), Viola, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott, Cembalo, Orgel)
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 632496
Urtextausgabe
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 672626
aus dem Oratorium 'Elias'
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 661266