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.
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236159
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Trumpet 1
Item no.: 175998
Die Geburt unsers Herren
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 235988
“Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit“
for: 2 soloists (ST), 2 mixed choirs (SSATB, SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 230448
Cantatas I–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 679223
Cantatas IV-VI
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 579646
zum Singen und Spielen
for: Children's choir, narrator, instruments
Vocal score
Item no.: 1543985
for: gemischter Chor (SSATB) mit Soli (ST) und Orchester
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 343422
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 184361
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 139903
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), the parish, children's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 190375
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 179361
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Single part
Item no.: 144980
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Harp (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764117
for: Concert band
Item no.: 343896
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Complete Orchestral Parts
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 683340
Arrangement for soli, choir and organ
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1013024
for: Solo (B), gemischter Chor (SATB), 2 Violinen, Basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 424569
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 236783
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel (arr. C. Klomp)
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Item no.: 1355820
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel (arr. C. Klomp)
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Item no.: 1355819
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel (arr. C. Klomp)
for: Soli ATB, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel
Item no.: 1587064
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235663
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235660
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen
Grüne Reihe Edition Peters
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 482972
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1355814
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237600
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 116210
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 873132
Item no.: 618535
for: Piccolo trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018883
for: Children's Choir oder Female Choir [SSS] and Harp [Piano]
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 498358
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764113
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913749
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343028
Shawnee Press
for: SATB and Flute
Choir score
Item no.: 617134
Cantatas IV–VI
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1215620
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Bassoon 2
Item no.: 237613
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Flute 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681833
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482970
Weihnachtsoratorium
Neuausgabe nach den Quellen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 482969
Cantatas I–III
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 343029
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) mit Soli (STB) und Streichorchester; Flöte und Cembalo ad libitum
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 184360
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, instruments
Lyric book
Item no.: 160603
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1355815
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210131
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 116211
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 867621
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