Search results for: “oratorio”

…a religious conversion, reflected in works like “Oedipus Rex,” an opera-oratorio with a Latin libretto, and “Symphony of Psalms,” a biblical-text based composition. Despite the global turmoil due to World…

…Death Haydn spent his final years in Vienna, continuing to compose despite his declining health. He wrote a series of Masses and his two great oratorios, “The Creation” and “The…

…C Minor. His compositions earned him widespread appreciation and led to his appointment as a conductor at Singakademie. In 1829, he conducted the first performance of Johann Sebastian Bach’s oratorio,…

…music needed for religious services each week, Bach immersed himself in writing cantatas. Among his notable works from this period are the “Christmas Oratorio,” a series of six cantatas that…

…the Passion, numerous cantatas, litanies, motets, and other liturgical pieces. His works from this period also included two oratorios, Die Israeliten in der Wüste and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu,…

…symphonies, numerous cantatas, and a handful of oratorios and chamber music pieces. Final Years and Death After moving back to Italy, Rossini spent the remaining years of his life writing…

…output includes parts of at least 31 cantata cycles, many operas, concertos, oratorios, songs, music for civic occasions and church services, passions, orchestral suites, and abundant amounts of chamber music….