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.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 919894
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1340487
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1338931
for: SATB and Orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 322235
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 461852
for: Narrator, soloists, children's choir, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 175592
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Choir part Tenor
Item no.: 461853
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 612528
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 638952
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 318612
for: Flexible ensemble
Music score
Item no.: 780887
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 142112
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284755
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284260
CD-ROM
Item no.: 466128
Trio and Chorus from the Oratorio 'The Creation Hob XXI:2'
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 156803
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 384923
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 632314
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 664031
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 380684
for: Voice (alto), piano
Item no.: 106539
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 680129
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 632331
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 142253
for: 5 Soli, Chor und Kammerorchester
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 101780
for: Voice (bass), organ
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2078
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590126
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 624744
Piano reduction
Item no.: 620238
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605233
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 602541
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 245064
for: Mixed choir (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 471457
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486489
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 180145
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 237395
for: 6 soloists (SSSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463626
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683750
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 666522
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 647876
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 624718
for: Sopran, Bariton, Sprechstimme, gemischter Chor (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB, dazu 9 Knaben, S/A) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 352810
Oratorio
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 634375
Kontext – Text – Musik
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 638331
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 565010
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Item no.: 183924
Oratorium für szenische oder konzertante Aufführungen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 663087
for: GCH STR BC
6 PART ST SET
Item no.: 362940
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