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.
Novello Handel Edition
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 225360
Für den Klavierauszug (Orgel) und die Chorpartitur gelten Mengenpreise
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 119521
Riduzione per canto e pianoforte RV 644
for: Vocal and Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606216
I know that my Redeemer liveth
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731217
Eine Kantate für: Tenor-Solo, gemischten Chor, KInderchor, Klavier, Streicher, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
Oratorium
Piano reduction
Item no.: 354116
BuxWV 31
Partitur
for: Soli (SSATB), Streicher, Basso continuo; Chor (SSATB) ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 234322
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 344563
Sacred Oratorio HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 215192
Understanding and Performing Handel's Masterpiece
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 635983
Klavierauszug XL im Großdruck englisch
with variant movements
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661149
Oratorium in drei Teilen – Klavierauszug (englisch)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 334081
Passio secundum Joannem BWV 245 - Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
Fassung IV (1749) mit der unvollendeten Revision 1739 im Anhang
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 346649
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
for: Mixed choir (SSB) [male chorus (TTB)], basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423224
Oratorium in drei Akten für Soli, gem Chor und Orchester
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 631238
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 551928
Arie aus der Matthäus-Passion
for: Voice (alto), piano
Music score
Item no.: 760457
Aria from the oratorio "The Creation"
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 731218
Dover Full Scores
Book
Item no.: 140160
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)
Klavierauszug vokal, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 584022
Zwölf Stimmungsbilder für die Orgel
for: Organ
Item no.: 201993
für Violine und Generalbass
Heft III: Sonata XI - XVI
for: Violin, basso continuo
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 304640
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
Oratorio
MWV A 14
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 470975
for violin and viola
for: Violin, viola
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 684853
Dover Full Scores
for: Orchestra and Mixed Voices
Score
Item no.: 190889
Vocal Library (Hal Leonard)
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 247390
am Palmsonntag oder am Fest Mariae Verkündigung
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 344592
Studien-Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 492827
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
Psaume symphonique en trois parties – Symphonischer Psalm in drei Teilen
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 120388
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor und Orchester
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 605234
Cholera Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 485861
Arie (Engel) aus dem Oratorium "Elias", op. 70
bearbeitet für Sopran-Solo und Orgel (dt./en.)
for: Voice (soprano), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4136
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
Oratorium
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392143
Oratorium
Erstveröffentlichung
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 378017
Arie aus dem Oratorium "Samson" - Transkription
Organ & Brass
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, organ
3 Performance scores
Item no.: 184299
für 4 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Gesamt-Rekonstruktion
Piano reduction
Item no.: 494167
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)
Klavierauszug vokal, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 489923
aus: Messiah
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
Item no.: 177706
Oratorio
for: gemischter Chor (SATB/SATB), Soli (SATB) und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 756324
(E flat – G)
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 930745
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 579893
Chamber Version
for: Voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 612466
aus dem Oratorium "Samson"
for: Voice (soprano), trumpet, strings, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 184300
Book
Item no.: 647601
Hob XXI:3
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 697309
Secular oratorio HWV 58
for: 5 soloists (SAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 312919
Novello Handel Edition
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 327698