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153 relations: A Child of Our Time, Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, Aria, Arthur Honegger, Belshazzar's Feast (Walton), Bible, Birmingham Triennial Music Festival, Cantata, Carl Heinrich Graun, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Catholic Church, Character (arts), Charles Darwin, Choir, Church (building), Clare of Assisi, Claudio Monteverdi, Costume, Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti, Deception, Der Tod Jesu, Dinesh Subasinghe, Dmitri Shostakovich, Dudley Buck, Edward Elgar, El Niño (opera), Elijah (oratorio), Emilio de' Cavalieri, Esther (Handel), Felix Mendelssohn, Francesco Foggia, Francis of Assisi, Franz Schmidt, Gaia hypothesis, Gaian Variations, Gautama Buddha, Genesis creation narrative, Georg Philipp Telemann, Georg Vierling, George Frideric Handel, Georgian era, Giacomo Carissimi, Giovanni Francesco Anerio, Greek mythology, Guillaume Apollinaire, Heinrich Schütz, Helmut Schlegel, Hinduism, History, ..., Igor Stravinsky, Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Ilaiyaraaja, Italian language, Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, Jephte (Carissimi), Jesus, Johann Adolph Hasse, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Adams (composer), John Stainer, Jonathan Harvey (composer), Jonathan Mills (composer), Krzysztof Penderecki, La Chanson du mal-aimé, La passione di Gesù Cristo, Latin, Lauda (song), Laudato si' (oratorio), Léo Ferré, Lent, Libretto, Liebfrauen, Frankfurt, Limburg an der Lahn, List of oratorios, Luigi Rossi, Madrigal, Magnificat, Marco Marazzoli, Mass (liturgy), Mass (music), Messiah (Handel), Michael Tippett, Monody, Motet, Murder, Music for the Requiem Mass, Musical composition, Musical theatre, Mythology, Narration, Nathan Currier, Neil Hannon, Oedipus rex (opera), Ogg, Oltremontani, Opera, Oratorio Society, Oratory (worship), Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso, Orchestra, Osvaldo Golijov, Overture, Oxford English Dictionary, Passion (music), Patrick Dehm, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Peter Reulein, Philip Neri, Pietro Della Valle, Pietro Metastasio, Play of Daniel, Pope Francis, Prophet, Protestantism, Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, Recitative, René Clemencic, Richard Einhorn, Roman mythology, Romance (love), Rome, Sacred, Saint, San Marcello al Corso, Sandakan Death Marches, Secularity, Secularization, Sergei Prokofiev, Sermon, Shiva, Solo (music), Somei Satoh, Song of the Forests, St Luke Passion (Penderecki), The Apostles (Elgar), The Book with Seven Seals, The Crucifixion (Stainer), The Dream of Gerontius, The Guardian, The Kingdom (Elgar), The Light of Asia (oratorio), The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New York Times, The Origin, Theatre, Thiruvasakam in Symphony, Timpani, Trumpet, Vadim Salmanov, William Walton, World War II. Expand index (103 more) »
A Child of Our Time
A Child of Our Time is a secular oratorio by the British composer Michael Tippett (190598), who also wrote the libretto.
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Alessandro Scarlatti
Pietro Alessandro Gaspare Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 22 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer, known especially for his operas and chamber cantatas.
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Antonio Caldara
Antonio Caldara (1670 – 28 December 1736) was an Italian Baroque composer.
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Aria
An aria (air; plural: arie, or arias in common usage, diminutive form arietta or ariette) in music was originally any expressive melody, usually, but not always, performed by a singer.
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Arthur Honegger
Arthur Honegger (10 March 1892 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss composer, who was born in France and lived a large part of his life in Paris.
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Belshazzar's Feast (Walton)
Belshazzar's Feast is a cantata by the English composer William Walton.
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Bible
The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία, tà biblía, "the books") is a collection of sacred texts or scriptures that Jews and Christians consider to be a product of divine inspiration and a record of the relationship between God and humans.
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Birmingham Triennial Music Festival
The Birmingham Triennial Musical Festival, in Birmingham, England, founded in 1784, was the longest-running classical music festival of its kind.
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Cantata
A cantata (literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian verb cantare, "to sing") is a vocal composition with an instrumental accompaniment, typically in several movements, often involving a choir.
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Carl Heinrich Graun
Carl Heinrich Graun (7 May 1704 – 8 August 1759) was a German composer and tenor singer.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with more than 1.299 billion members worldwide.
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Character (arts)
A character (sometimes known as a fictional character) is a person or other being in a narrative (such as a novel, play, television series, film, or video game).
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Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin, (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
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Choir
A choir (also known as a quire, chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Church (building)
A church building or church house, often simply called a church, is a building used for Christian religious activities, particularly for worship services.
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Clare of Assisi
Saint Clare of Assisi (July 16, 1194 – August 11, 1253, born Chiara Offreduccio and sometimes spelled Clair, Claire, etc.) is an Italian saint and one of the first followers of Saint Francis of Assisi.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player and choirmaster.
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Costume
Costume is the distinctive style of dress of an individual or group that reflects their class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch.
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Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti
Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti (Vienna 23 February 1730 – Pisa 1795) was an Austrian composer, born in Vienna of Italian descent.
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Deception
Deception is the act of propagating a belief that is not true, or is not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission).
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Der Tod Jesu
Der Tod Jesu (The Death of Jesus) is an oratorio libretto by Karl Wilhelm Ramler.
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Dinesh Subasinghe
Dinesh Subasinghe (born 10 July 1979, Colombo) is a Sri Lankan composer, violinist, and music producer.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich (Дми́трий Дми́триевич Шостако́вич|Dmitriy Dmitrievich Shostakovich,; 9 August 1975) was a Russian composer and pianist.
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Dudley Buck
Dudley Buck (March 10, 1839October 6, 1909) was an American composer, organist, and writer on music.
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Edward Elgar
Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet (2 June 1857 – 23 February 1934) was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire.
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El Niño (opera)
El Niño is an opera-oratorio by the American composer John Adams.
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Elijah (oratorio)
Elijah (Elias), Op. 70, MWV A 25, is an oratorio written by Felix Mendelssohn.
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Emilio de' Cavalieri
Emilio de' Cavalieri, or Emilio dei Cavalieri — the spellings "del" and "Cavaliere" are contemporary typographical errors — (c. 1550 – 11 March 1602) was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era.
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Esther (Handel)
Esther (HWV 50) is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.
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Francesco Foggia
Francesco Foggia (baptized 17 November 1603 – 8 January 1688) was an Italian composer of the Baroque.
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Francis of Assisi
Saint Francis of Assisi (San Francesco d'Assisi), born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, informally named as Francesco (1181/11823 October 1226), was an Italian Catholic friar, deacon and preacher.
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Franz Schmidt
Franz Schmidt (22 December 187411 February 1939) was an Austrian composer, cellist and pianist.
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Gaia hypothesis
The Gaia hypothesis, also known as the Gaia theory or the Gaia principle, proposes that living organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic and self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.
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Gaian Variations
Gaian Variations is an environmental oratorio by classical composer Nathan Currier, an abruptly terminated premiere of which took place at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York on April 21, 2004.
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Gautama Buddha
Gautama Buddha (c. 563/480 – c. 483/400 BCE), also known as Siddhārtha Gautama, Shakyamuni Buddha, or simply the Buddha, after the title of Buddha, was an ascetic (śramaṇa) and sage, on whose teachings Buddhism was founded.
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Genesis creation narrative
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Georg Philipp Telemann (– 25 June 1767) was a German Baroque composer and multi-instrumentalist.
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Georg Vierling
Georg Vierling (5 September 1820 – 1 June 1901) was a German musician and composer.
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George Frideric Handel
George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (born italic; 23 February 1685 (O.S.) – 14 April 1759) was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos.
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Georgian era
The Georgian era is a period in British history from 1714 to, named eponymously after kings George I, George II, George III and George IV.
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Giacomo Carissimi
Giacomo Carissimi (baptized 18 April 160512 January 1674) was an Italian composer and music teacher.
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Giovanni Francesco Anerio
Giovanni Francesco Anerio (Rome, 7 July 1569 - Graz, 11 June 1630) was an Italian composer of the Roman School, of the very late Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire (26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist, and art critic of Polish descent.
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Heinrich Schütz
Heinrich Schütz (– 6 November 1672) was a German composer and organist, generally regarded as the most important German composer before Johann Sebastian Bach and often considered to be one of the most important composers of the 17th century.
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Helmut Schlegel
Helmut Schlegel OFM (born 15 May 1943) is a German Franciscan, Catholic priest, meditation instructor, author, librettist and songwriter.
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Hinduism
Hinduism is an Indian religion and dharma, or a way of life, widely practised in the Indian subcontinent.
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History
History (from Greek ἱστορία, historia, meaning "inquiry, knowledge acquired by investigation") is the study of the past as it is described in written documents.
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Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky (ˈiɡərʲ ˈfʲɵdərəvʲɪtɕ strɐˈvʲinskʲɪj; 6 April 1971) was a Russian-born composer, pianist, and conductor.
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Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda
Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (SV 153) is an operatic scena for three voices by Claudio Monteverdi, although many dispute how the piece should be classified.
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Ilaiyaraaja
Ilaiyaraaja (born 2 June 1943 as Gnanathesikan) is an Indian film composer, singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, orchestrator, conductor-arranger and lyricist who works in the Indian Film Industry, predominantly in Tamil.
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Italian language
Italian (or lingua italiana) is a Romance language.
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Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher (Joan of Arc at the Stake) is an oratorio by Arthur Honegger, originally commissioned by Ida Rubinstein.
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Jephte (Carissimi)
Jephte or Historia di Jephte is an important exemplar of the mid 17th Century oratorio form composed by Giacomo Carissimi around 1650 (probably 1648), based on the story of Jephtha in the Old Testament Book of Judges.
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Jesus
Jesus, also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth and Jesus Christ, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.
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Johann Adolph Hasse
Johann Adolph Hasse (born in Bergedorf, near Hamburg, baptised 25 March 1699 – died in Venice 16 December 1783) was an 18th-century German composer, singer and teacher of music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a composer and musician of the Baroque period, born in the Duchy of Saxe-Eisenach.
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John Adams (composer)
John Coolidge Adams (born February 15, 1947) is an American composer of classical music and opera, with strong roots in minimalism.
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John Stainer
Sir John Stainer (6 June 1840 – 31 March 1901) was an English composer and organist whose music, though not generally much performed today (except for The Crucifixion, still heard at Passiontide in many churches of the Anglican Communion), was very popular during his lifetime.
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Jonathan Harvey (composer)
Jonathan Dean Harvey (3 May 1939 – 4 December 2012) was a British composer.
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Jonathan Mills (composer)
Sir Jonathan Mills AO (born 21 March 1963) is an Australian composer and festival director.
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Krzysztof Penderecki
Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki (born 23 November 1933) is a Polish composer and conductor.
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
La Chanson du mal-aimé (English: Song of the Poorly Loved) is an oratorio composed by Léo Ferré in 1952–53 on Guillaume Apollinaire's eponymous poem.
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La passione di Gesù Cristo
La Passione di Gesù Cristo is the title of a libretto by Metastasio which was repeatedly set as an azione sacra or oratorio by many composers of the late baroque, Rococo and early classical period.
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Latin
Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.
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Lauda (song)
The lauda (Italian pl. laude) or lauda spirituale was the most important form of vernacular sacred song in Italy in the late medieval era and Renaissance.
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Laudato si' (oratorio)
Laudato si' is an oratorio composed in 2016 by Peter Reulein on a libretto by Helmut Schlegel.
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Léo Ferré
Léo Ferré (24 August 1916 – 14 July 1993) was a French-born Monégasque poet and composer, and a dynamic and controversial live performer, whose career in France dominated the years after the Second World War until his death.
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Lent
Lent (Latin: Quadragesima: Fortieth) is a solemn religious observance in the Christian liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday.
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Libretto
A libretto is the text used in, or intended for, an extended musical work such as an opera, operetta, masque, oratorio, cantata or musical.
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Liebfrauen, Frankfurt
Liebfrauenkirche ("Our Lady", literally "Dear Lady") is a Gothic-style Catholic parish church, located in the centre of Frankfurt, Germany.
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Limburg an der Lahn
Limburg an der Lahn (officially abbreviated Limburg a. d. Lahn) is the district seat of Limburg-Weilburg in Hesse, Germany.
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List of oratorios
This is a chronological list of oratorios from the 17th century to the present.
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Luigi Rossi
Luigi Rossi (c. 1597 – 20 February 1653) was an Italian Baroque composer.
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Madrigal
A madrigal is a secular vocal music composition of the Renaissance and early Baroque eras.
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Magnificat
The Magnificat (Latin for " magnifies ") is a canticle, also known as the Song of Mary, the Canticle of Mary and, in the Byzantine tradition, the Ode of the Theotokos.
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Marco Marazzoli
Marco Marazzoli (1602? – 26 January 1662) was an Italian priest and Baroque music composer.
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Mass (liturgy)
Mass is a term used to describe the main eucharistic liturgical service in many forms of Western Christianity.
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Mass (music)
The Mass (italic), a form of sacred musical composition, is a choral composition that sets the invariable portions of the Eucharistic liturgy (principally that of the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and Lutheranism) to music.
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Messiah (Handel)
Messiah (HWV 56) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer.
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Michael Tippett
Sir Michael Kemp Tippett (2 January 1905 – 8 January 1998) was an English composer who rose to prominence during and immediately after the Second World War.
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Monody
In poetry, the term monody has become specialized to refer to a poem in which one person laments another's death.
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Motet
In western music, a motet is a mainly vocal musical composition, of highly diverse form and style, from the late medieval era to the present.
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Murder
Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.
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Music for the Requiem Mass
The Requiem Mass is notable for the large number of musical compositions that it has inspired, including settings by Mozart, Verdi, Bruckner, Dvořák, Fauré and Duruflé.
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Musical composition
Musical composition can refer to an original piece of music, either a song or an instrumental music piece, the structure of a musical piece, or the process of creating or writing a new song or piece of music.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Mythology
Mythology refers variously to the collected myths of a group of people or to the study of such myths.
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Narration
Narration is the use of a written or spoken commentary to convey a story to an audience.
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Nathan Currier
Nathan Currier (born 1960, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania) is an American composer.
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Neil Hannon
Edward Neil Anthony Hannon (born 7 November 1970) is a Northern Irish singer and songwriter.
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Oedipus rex (opera)
Oedipus rex is an "Opera-oratorio after Sophocles" by Igor Stravinsky, scored for orchestra, speaker, soloists, and male chorus.
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Ogg
Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.
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Oltremontani
Oltremontani ("those from over the Alps") were those of the Franco-Flemish School of composers who dominated the musical landscape of Northern Italy during the middle of the sixteenth Century.
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Opera
Opera (English plural: operas; Italian plural: opere) is a form of theatre in which music has a leading role and the parts are taken by singers.
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Oratorio Society
Oratorio Society may refer to.
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Oratory (worship)
An oratory is a Christian room for prayer, from the Latin orare, to pray.
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Oratory of Saint Philip Neri
The Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri is a pontifical society of apostolic life of Catholic priests and lay-brothers who live together in a community bound together by no formal vows but only with the bond of charity.
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Oratory of Santissimo Crocifisso
The Oratorio del Santissimo Crocifisso or the Oratory of the Most Holy Crucifix is a building in central Rome, Italy.
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Orchestra
An orchestra is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which mixes instruments from different families, including bowed string instruments such as violin, viola, cello and double bass, as well as brass, woodwinds, and percussion instruments, each grouped in sections.
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Osvaldo Golijov
Osvaldo Noé Golijov (born December 5, 1960) is an Argentine composer of classical music and music professor, known for his vocal and orchestral work.
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Overture
Overture (from French ouverture, "opening") in music is the term originally applied to the instrumental introduction to an opera.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.
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Passion (music)
In Christian music, a Passion is a setting of the Passion of Christ.
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Patrick Dehm
Patrick Dehm (born 1962) is a German Catholic theologian, supervisor and clinical Gestalt therapist.
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Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio
Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio is a live album by Paul McCartney released in 1991 and his first major foray into classical music.
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Peter Reulein
Peter Reulein (born 1966) is a German composer, organ improviser, academic teacher and church musician, from 2000 at the church Liebfrauen in Frankfurt am Main.
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Philip Neri
Philip Romolo Neri (Italian: Filippo Romolo Neri; 21 July 151525 May 1595), known as the Third Apostle of Rome, after Saints Peter and Paul, was an Italian priest noted for founding a society of secular clergy called the Congregation of the Oratory.
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Pietro Della Valle
Pietro della Valle (2 April 1586 – 21 April 1652) was an Italian composer, musicologist, and author who traveled throughout Asia during the Renaissance period.
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Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Antonio Domenico Trapassi, better known by his pseudonym of Pietro Metastasio (3 January 1698 – 12 April 1782), was an Italian poet and librettist, considered the most important writer of opera seria libretti.
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Play of Daniel
The Play of Daniel, or Ludus Danielis, is either of two medieval Latin liturgical dramas based on the biblical Book of Daniel, one of which is accompanied by monophonic music.
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Pope Francis
Pope Francis (Franciscus; Francesco; Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio; 17 December 1936) is the 266th and current Pope and sovereign of the Vatican City State.
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Prophet
In religion, a prophet is an individual regarded as being in contact with a divine being and said to speak on that entity's behalf, serving as an intermediary with humanity by delivering messages or teachings from the supernatural source to other people.
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Protestantism
Protestantism is the second largest form of Christianity with collectively more than 900 million adherents worldwide or nearly 40% of all Christians.
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Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo
Rappresentatione di anima et di corpo (Portrayal of the Soul and the Body) is a musical work by Emilio de' Cavalieri to a libretto by Agostino Manni (1548-1618).
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Recitative
Recitative (also known by its Italian name "recitativo") is a style of delivery (much used in operas, oratorios, and cantatas) in which a singer is allowed to adopt the rhythms of ordinary speech.
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René Clemencic
René Clemencic (Vienna, 27 February 1928) is an Austrian composer, recorder player, harpsichordist, conductor and clavichord player.
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Richard Einhorn
Richard Einhorn (born 1952) is an American composer.
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Roman mythology
Roman mythology is the body of traditional stories pertaining to ancient Rome's legendary origins and religious system, as represented in the literature and visual arts of the Romans.
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Romance (love)
Romance is the expressive and generally pleasurable feeling from an emotional attraction towards another person.
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Rome
Rome (Roma; Roma) is the capital city of Italy and a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale).
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Sacred
Sacred means revered due to sanctity and is generally the state of being perceived by religious individuals as associated with divinity and considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspiring awe or reverence among believers.
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Saint
A saint (also historically known as a hallow) is a person who is recognized as having an exceptional degree of holiness or likeness or closeness to God.
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San Marcello al Corso
San Marcello al Corso, a church in Rome, Italy, is a titular church whose cardinal-protector normally holds the (intermediary) rank of cardinal-priest.
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Sandakan Death Marches
The Sandakan Death Marches were a series of forced marches in Borneo from Sandakan to Ranau which resulted in the deaths of 2,345 Allied prisoners of war held captive by the Empire of Japan during the Pacific campaign of World War II in the Sandakan POW Camp.
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Secularity
Secularity (adjective form secular, from Latin saeculum meaning "worldly", "of a generation", "temporal", or a span of about 100 years) is the state of being separate from religion, or of not being exclusively allied with or against any particular religion.
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Secularization
Secularization (or secularisation) is the transformation of a society from close identification and affiliation with religious values and institutions toward nonreligious values and secular institutions.
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Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (r; 27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian Soviet composer, pianist and conductor.
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Sermon
A sermon is an oration, lecture, or talk by a member of a religious institution or clergy.
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Shiva
Shiva (Sanskrit: शिव, IAST: Śiva, lit. the auspicious one) is one of the principal deities of Hinduism.
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Solo (music)
In music, a solo (from the solo, meaning alone) is a piece or a section of a piece played or sung featuring a single performer, who may be performing completely alone or supported by an accompanying instrument such as a piano or organ, a continuo group (in Baroque music), or the rest of a choir, orchestra, band, or other ensemble.
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Somei Satoh
; (born in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, January 19, 1947) is a Japanese composer of contemporary traditional music (gendai hōgaku).
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Song of the Forests
The Song of the Forests (Песнь о лесах), Op.
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St Luke Passion (Penderecki)
The St Luke Passion (full title: Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam, or the Passion and Death of Our Lord Jesus Christ According to St Luke) is a work for chorus and orchestra written in 1966 by Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki.
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The Apostles (Elgar)
The Apostles, Op.
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The Book with Seven Seals
The Book with Seven Seals (Das Buch mit sieben Siegeln) is an oratorio in German by the Austrian composer Franz Schmidt, on themes from the biblical Book of Revelation of Saint John.
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The Crucifixion (Stainer)
The Crucifixion: A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer is an oratorio composed by John Stainer in 1887.
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The Dream of Gerontius
The Dream of Gerontius, Op.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The Kingdom (Elgar)
The Kingdom, Op.
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The Light of Asia (oratorio)
The Light of Asia is an oratorio by the American composer Dudley Buck.
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The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is an encyclopedic dictionary of music and musicians.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.
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The Origin
The Origin is an opera/oratorio composed by Richard Einhorn to a libretto by Richard Einhorn and Catherine Barnett based on the writings of Charles Darwin.
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Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage.
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Thiruvasakam in Symphony
Thiruvasakam in Symphony (2005) is an oratorio composed and orchestrated by Ilaiyaraaja.
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Timpani
Timpani or kettledrums (also informally called timps) are musical instruments in the percussion family.
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Trumpet
A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.
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Vadim Salmanov
Vadim Nikolayevich Salmanov (4 November 1912, in Saint Petersburg – 27 February 1978, in Leningrad) was a Russian/Soviet composer.
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William Walton
Sir William Turner Walton, OM (29 March 19028 March 1983) was an English composer.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oratorio
