Oratorio Sheet Music Downloads

This choral score completes the performance material for this central work by Johann Sebastian Bach.

Like most of his works, Johann Sebastian Bach's "St. John Passion" has not survived in a definitive version - e.g. as a printed edition or fair copy - but in four different versions. Arthur Mendel's e...

> BA 5038-90 replaces the previous vocal score but retains its longstanding article number. > The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition. This means that you can rehearse and perform th...

This choral score completes the performance material already available for Johann Sebastian Bach's St. Matthew Passion.

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the "St. John Passion". The first version from 1724, which is commonly used today, is a mixture of different readings. It w...

Immediately after completing Paulus in 1836, Mendelssohn considered composing another oratorio. However, a whole decade was to pass before he composed 'Elijah', which is based on the story of the bibl...

The choral score of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's oratorio "Elijah" op. 70 is published on the basis of the critical Urtext edition edited by Mendelssohn specialist Douglass Seaton. The setting of the...

Trauermarsch - Coro SATB

In the late 17th century, English musicians celebrated St. Cecilia as the patron saint of music with special concerts and church services every year on November 22. Handel revived the tradition of the...

Today, César Franck (1822-1890) is considered one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. His main work "Les Béatitudes", a monumental oratorio setting of the Beatitudes from...

Spohr's reputation as a violin virtuoso, composer, conductor and instrumental teacher was outstanding in the early Romantic period. "Die letzten Dinge" is considered the most important of his four ora...

This is the best of me, wrote Edward Elgar after the final bar of his "Dream of Gerontius". First performed in 1900, the work has long been one of the standard works of great oratorio choruses in Grea...

Garcia, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1767, a priest and bandmaster at the cathedral there, is still little known. His mostly sacred works include four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present "Miss...

With its magnificent, almost operatic music, the Passion oratorio "Christus am Ölberge" is a different Passion oratorio that is definitely worth hearing and experiencing - and is undoubtedly unique in...

The Requiem in F minor op. 146 is one of Franz Lachner's most important works. The composer, who lived in Vienna for a long time, developed into a "classicist romantic" there, merging classical form,...

The Berlin choirmaster and music teacher Michael Betzner-Brandt is known as a particularly creative mind in the choral scene - for example through his "I can't sing" choirs. In order to be able to sin...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber's Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive settings of the requiem mass of the 17th century. The specific occasion for the composition of t...

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

Can be combined with the performance material of older editions (also with the NBA). Bach's St. John Passion is one of the greatest Passion settings in music history. It underwent several fundamental...

Franz von Suppè did not write his "Requiem" as a generally human or pantheistic lament for the dead, but as a consciously Christian-Catholic work of confession. The fact that Suppè succeeded in compos...

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor for mixed choir (without vocal soloists) and orchestra, which is presented here in a critically correct new edition, is one of the most important contributions to the ge...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio of the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Inspired by Mozart and Cherubini's Requiem settings, Rheinberger created his first major sacred work in 1865 with the "Requiem" op. 60. Before its premiere in 1870, he reworked it once again and dedic...