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.
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/5 (Gesamtausgabe, Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition, Urtext)
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 215847
Oratorium Hob. XXI:2,
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 486523
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
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686625
I know that my Redeemer liveth
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731217
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285448
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
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Samson" - Transkription
Organ & Brass
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 184299
Aria from the oratorio "The Creation"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731218
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
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
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
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392143
für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Gesamt-Rekonstruktion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494167
Dover Full Scores
Book
Item no.: 140160
Oratorium
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 378017
Sinfonia zum 3. Akt des Oratoriums "Salomon"
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487798
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 558777
Riduzione per canto e pianoforte RV 644
for: Vocal and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606216
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
Version von 1900 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 580480
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
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
from the 'Messiah'
HWV 56, No. 36
Urtext Stuttgarter Handel-Editions
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [organ]
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665335
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
An Oratorio op. 40
Lyric book
Item no.: 890605
An Oratorio
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 932557
Choral Large Works
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317691
The New Novello Choral Edition
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 396045
Oratorio
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 550957
Oratorium
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1343728
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
Alexanderfest oder die Macht der Musik
Oratorium - Kritische Neuausgabe
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 655379
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235742
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
Oratorio in 3 Parts for Soloists (SATB), Choir and Orchestra (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 379050