In 1745 he had again become bankrupt; for, although he had no rival as a composer of choral music it was possible for his enemies to give balls and banquets on the nights of his oratorio performances.
When the question arose how a musical entertainment of this kind could be managed in Lent without protests from the bishop of London, Handelian oratorio came into being as a matter of course.
Handel's oratorio was reproduced in an enlarged version in 1732 at the King's theatre: the princess royal wished for scenery and action, but the bishop of London protested.
But in oratorio there was not the least necessity for reforming any art-forms.
That they are felt as absurdities and defects already shows that Handel created in English oratorio a true art-form on the largest possible scale.
On his return to England he entered the service of the duke of Chandos as conductor of his concerts, receiving a thousand pounds for his first oratorio Esther.
In the evening the Montreal Oratorio Society of 400 voices performed a grand cantata especially written by a Mr. Semper and composed by M.
The rôle of the Philharmonic, however, was oratorio with orchestral accompaniment.
He was enraptured with the oratorio of Handelʼs, which he heard at the Academy of Singing: never had he received so deep an impression from church music.
The Oratorio is divided into three parts: with the exception of the overture, four of the airs, and two of the choruses, it contains little that can be popular at the present day.
This oratoriodoubtless received its name from the special occasion when it was composed, viz.
Surely, if there is no Occasional Oratorio to be found, the Overture must mean that it was to be used on occasion.
I hear that he composes good music himself, and that his new oratorio will be performed before the Doge in Saint Mark's next Sunday.
I have sat at an Oratorio (that profanation of the purposes of the cheerful playhouse) watching the faces of the auditory in the pit (what a contrast to Hogarth's Laughing Audience!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan carried Miss Linley, the oratorio singer, from Bath and the persecutions of Major Mathews, in March, 1772, and placed her in France.
In this essay Lamb refers to Braham's singing in Handel's oratorio "Israel in Egypt.
There is so much monotony in oratorio concerts because all oratorios and all parts of any single oratorio are sung alike.
It is only in the more measured and sober gait proper to oratorio that we can listen to it in the vernacular without thought of incongruity.
While the drama presents incident, the oratorio relates, expounds, and celebrates, presenting it to the fancy through the ear instead of representing it to the eye.
Hence we have not only the preponderance of choruses in the oratorio over recitative, arias, duets, trios, and so forth, but also the adherence in the choral part to the old manner of writing which made the expansion of the choruses possible.
This relation has been more than reversed since then, the orchestras at modern oratorio performances seldom being one-fifth as large as the choir.
Nevertheless (or perhaps because of this fact) the most successful choral concerts in the United States are those given by oratorio societies.
As an art-form they are unique, combining a number of elements and having all the apparatus of an oratorio plus the congregation, which took part in the performance by singing the hymns dispersed through the work.
Confusing and anomalous as these things are, they find their explanation in the circumstance that the oratorio never quite freed itself from the influence of the people's Church plays in which it had its beginning.
Morell we determined to write an oratorio that should attempt to supply the want.
This led to our writing Narcissus, which is an Oratorio Buffo in the Handelian manner--that is as nearly so as we could make it.
The time for oratorio has gone to join Holy Moses!
I tried to explain that your stuff was no more like old-fashioned oratorio than Chicago is like Stratford-on-Avon, but he wouldn't listen.
Oratorio had always been a hateful form of art to her.
The Te Deum, the cathedral service, the oratorio in one form or another, in fact the thing with a sacred basis, that is where the English strength lies.
It was to this fact that in after life she owed her success in this country as a singer of oratorio and English songs.
However, on her promising not to disobey his instructions again, Garcia made up his mind to help the girl to come out under his auspices as an oratorio singer.
So it was with Mendelssohn; the greatest musical triumph ever achieved, was the performance of the oratorio of Elijah, given at Birmingham, the work on which Mendelssohn's fame will rest.
The oratorio of St. Paul was not given until 1836, when it was produced at Duesseldorf, under his own special superintendence.
It was too florid in character and marred the unity of the oratorio nature of the performance.
The programme was mainly of an oratorio character, and this school of music probably never before had such a magnificent illustration.
The dignity, grandeur and sublimity, and the solemn power of the great oratorio master-pieces could never before have been fully felt.
In 1741 he composed an oratoriomore beautiful than any other that has ever been written.
Now you must know that an oratorio is a composition for many voices and instruments.
In this opening chorus of knights and retainers in the Second Act (scene ii) the musical inspiration is intense; but words are repeated as irrationally as in a Handel oratorio chorus; and the same is the case in the bridal procession music.
Handel had an easy time; he was of his period, he wrote for it, and only his native pugnacity landed him in bankruptcy, and enabled him finally to win a fortune by oratorio when no one would listen any longer to his operas.
An oratorio of Handel, or an opera of Mozart, cannot become property like a picture of Raphael or Guido.
It would be difficult, indeed, to think of an oratorio or requiem written by a scoffer or a sceptic.
No modern listeners can receive an oratorio as orthodox without an organ of Titan-build in the very middle that takes care to sound.
What do you think of anoratorio in Westminster Abbey, the conductor our own, the whole affair of his?
At the same Jubilee festival, Arne's oratorio "Judith" was performed at the Church.
Mrs. Cibber had also won a high place in the estimation of the public by her exquisite singing in the first performance of the "Messiah" Oratorio when conducted by Handel on the 13th of April preceding.
Arne's was well received; the Public Advertiser said: "The Oratorio of Judith, composed by Dr.
Evidence of the success of the oratorio is the repetition of it on the 4th and 6th of March.
This early oratorio of Arne's was never published, and no manuscript copy of it is known to exist.
The works of the second period, which ends around 1875 with the re-editing of the recently composed oratorio "Redemption," reveal him still in search of power and a personal manner.
And it seems to have been the impact of Handel which moved him to contemplate an oratorio of his own.
That was the oratorio and in this he could undertake new flights.
It was customary at the Cathedral of Cadiz to produce an oratorio every year during Lent, the effect of the performance being not a little enhanced by the following circumstances.
The great and even more celebrated moment in the opening choral number of the oratorio is the passage "Let there be Light and there was Light".
Theorbo and chitarrone appear together at the close of the 16th century, and their introduction was synchronous with the rise of accompanied monody in music, that is, of the oratorio and the opera.
Leopold Damrosch, his reputation as a conductor being of an international nature, led to his coming to this country in 1871 to become director of the Oratorio society and Symphony society of New York.
He is almost unexcelled as anoratorio vocalist, and is an exponent of classical ballads.
I told him I could sing almost anything in oratorio or opera, if he so wished.
A Mystery (of which our modern oratorio is the direct descendant) was a kind of drama illustrating some sacred subject, and the earliest specimens laid the foundation for the Greek tragedy and comedy.
Up to the last year of his life he continued to give oratorio concerts and played organ concertos, of which only the tutti were noted, he improvising his part.
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