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: Voice (bass), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1698
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 764119
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Ensemble score Violin 1,2
Item no.: 690347
for: Solo voice, mixed choir (SATB), organ; strings ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 281497
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378383
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232691
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 677223
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478480
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1689487
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
– Graduated prizes on request –
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205755
for: Trombone BC/TC
Book, CD
Item no.: 481948
Eine Kantate für junge Leute nach der Weihnachtsgeschichte von Charles Dickens
for: Children's choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 1666827
Arranged for choir and organ
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 606518
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 886092
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 268424
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 167469
The Christmas Story with songs, spirituals and words based on St. Luke's Gospel. SAA - Basic edition for treble choir, soli and narrator
for: Soloist (alto), women's choir (SAA), narrator; guitar/keyboard ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 216116
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317716
A compelling retelling of the Christmas story
with Flute part
for: 3 soloists (MezTB), mixed choir (SATB), flute, organ
Organ reduction, Solo part
Item no.: 692649
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 433324
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 481480
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1017415
Arrangement for organ
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 1478481
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, guitar, percussion
Score
Item no.: 673500
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 326291
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 148332
for: Women's choir (SS), piano
Score
Item no.: 498354
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Songbook, Playback-CD
Item no.: 350962
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Item no.: 205754
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 424855
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1681364
for: 2 voices (SS) [female choir (SS)/mixed choir (SSB)], 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 279273
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 487737
for: Children's choir
ChorSolo part(s)
Item no.: 141647
Oratorio fragment
Part I: The Birth of Christ; Part II: The Passion of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205752
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1215619
for: Children's Choir [Women's Choir] [SSS] and harp [Piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 498355
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 105761
Die Krippe / The Manger
Oratorium
for: 5 solo voices (SATBarB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 337591
Basisausgabe
Die Weihnachtsgeschichte mit Songs, Spirituals und Sprechtexten nach dem Lukas-Evangelium
for: Soloist (medium), mixed choir (SATB), narrator; guitar, keyboard ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 172042
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 461785
Oratorio fragment
Part I: The Birth of Christ; Part II: The Passion of Christ
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 578511
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155947
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuches (Letztfassung 1963)
mit den Turmgesängen
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 364438
for: Soloists, Mixed Choir, Children's Choir and Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 643591
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 583345
for: Voice (tenor)
Buch
Item no.: 164716
for: F/Eb Horn
Book, CD
Item no.: 481965
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