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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: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 160198
for: 3 soloists (SSA), women's choir (SSA) [children's choir], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 184997
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 1677134
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 423059
for: Solo (B), gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 361390
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229786
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 635702
for: Soloist (boy), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 578525
for: Soloist (soprano), children's choir (1 voice), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 279122
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 663947
for: Soprano, Tenor, Bass Voice, SATB, Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145074
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 330416
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663805
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 623165
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: SOLI GCH HA STR ORG
Score
Item no.: 467961
Oratorium
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 964710
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Bass
Item no.: 298436
Kommentierung des Textes aus theologischer Sicht von Paul-Gerhard Nohl
Book
Item no.: 476872
for: KCH 2 FL KLAV
Partitur
Item no.: 618904
für Soli, Kinderchor und Instrumente
Partitur und Stimmen
for: BÜHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE KINDERKANTATEN
Score, Parts
Item no.: 245261
Weihnachtsgedichte
Book
Item no.: 657667
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 371538
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
Chorpartitur
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 184758
Eine Weihnachtsgeschichte nach Lukas unter Verwendung bekannter und weniger bekannter Weihnachtslieder
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 311315
Historia der freuden- und gnadenreichen Geburt Gottes und Mariens Sohnes, Jesu Christi
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 392174
Faksimile der autographen Partitur in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Documenta musicologica II/54 / Bärenreiter Facsimile
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 681383
Stimmensatz
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681478
Weihnachtskonzert
for: Favorit choir (SSB), chapell choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 1656093
für vier Querflöten
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418665
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 660273
Ein kommentiertes Singspielverzeichnis für die Weihnachtszeit
für Kindergarten, Grundschule und Kinderchor
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 458296
Lieder aus der Kantate für Hausmusik
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Choir score
Item no.: 114739
Weihnachtsmusical für Kinder von 6-12 Jahren
for: Children's choir, instruments
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 462812
for: Solists, boys’ choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 333326
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 210135
Weihnachtsoratorium (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Item no.: 319067
CD mit Erzählung und 10 Liedern zu Daniel und 4 Adventsliedern
CD
Item no.: 343802
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 739198
from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738270
Ein deutsches Weihnachtsliederspiel nach oberbayerischen und tiroler Weisen
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Einzelstimme Klavier (Orchester)
Item no.: 748090
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) (Frauenchor, Kinderchor) mit Soli (SSATBarB) und kleines Orchester
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 214695
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Chorpartitur
Item no.: 247530
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 672331
for: VoiceTrax CD
CD
Item no.: 798590
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 235985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 179907
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 283795
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Score
Item no.: 423795
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