Looking for a wide selection of Oratorios from various periods of music history, then you’ve come to the right place! Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the wonderfully dramatic sacred works on offer from Stretta Music today!
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.
am Palmsonntag oder am Fest Mariae Verkündigung
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486523
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
Zwölf Stimmungsbilder für die Orgel
for: Organ
Item no.: 201993
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 196758
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
Klavierauszug
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 147051
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Samson" - Transkription
Organ & Brass
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 184299
I know that my Redeemer liveth
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731217
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
Aria from the oratorio "The Creation"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731218
Oratorium in drei Teilen
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
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)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489923
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686625
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285448
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
Oratorium in 3 Teilen
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 140486
for: GES-H KLAV,GES-M KLAV
Item no.: 657491
Sacred Oratorios
for: Trumpet
Music score
Item no.: 150973
Dover Full Scores
Book
Item no.: 140160
für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Gesamt-Rekonstruktion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494167
Oratorium
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392143
Oratorium in zwei Teilen
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Flöte, Blockflöten (2), Oboen (2), Fagott, Trompeten (2), Posaune, Violinen (4), Viola, Gambe, Bassi (Cello, Kontrabass, Erzlaute, Bass-Laute, Cembalo)
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584022
Oratorium
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 378017
Riduzione per canto e pianoforte RV 644
for: Vocal and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606216
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
Sinfonia zum 3. Akt des Oratoriums "Salomon"
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487798
ALB
One of the most moving of all the musical settings of the Passion of Christ.
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 244524
Vocal Library (Hal Leonard)
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 247390
Oratorium in sechs Szenen
Erste Fassung, 1720
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Soprane solo (2), Alt solo, Tenöre solo (6), Bass solo, Gemischter Chor:SATTBB, Oboe, Fagotte (2), Hörner (2), Trompete, Harfe, Streicher, Basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139625
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 580480
Arie (Engel) aus dem Oratorium "Elias", op. 70
bearbeitet für Alt-Solo und Orgel (dt./en.)
for: Voice (alto), organ
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2077
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492827
(E flat – G)
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930745
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317691
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665335
An Oratorio
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 932557
The New Novello Choral Edition
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 396045
An Oratorio op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 890605
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550957
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Arias from Oratorios (with CD)
Music Minus One Soprano
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 138624
Oratorium
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343728
Alexanderfest oder die Macht der Musik
Oratorium - Kritische Neuausgabe
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655379
Passio secundum Marcum
First version, first performed in Weimar around 1713 by J. S. Bach
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 234288
Legende
Einzelausgabe aus Band 9 der Rheinberger-Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 623064
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Klavierauszug mit deutschem und englischem Text
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 618712
Warm-ups for Successful Performance (+ Online Media)
Chorbuch
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score, online media
Item no.: 664539
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235742