At that time the English people, even of the more educated classes, had little or no appreciation of purely abstract music, their sympathies being confined more or less to oratorios and ballads.
One can only imagine that any change from the limited repertory our forefathers possessed, came as a welcome relief from the continued repetition of the few standard oratorios they had at their disposition.
His firstoratorios were devoted to subjects from the Old Testament.
His pronunciation was terrible, and that he often failed to comprehend the relative force of the words of a sentence when setting them to music, the early editions of his oratorios prove conclusively.
The nineteenth century had witnessed a monotonous succession of oratorios by English composers, written on such lines as this system would naturally indicate.
His oratorios were not begun until he was, at least, fifty years of age.
They are likewise going to perform oratorios here.
I remembered the wholeness with which I used to give myself up to the concerts and oratorios in New York, and the intense reaction of melancholy which always followed these occasions.
At dusk the two would repair to the old Chickering grand to make music--Schubert, Brahms, and arias from the oratorios they both loved.
When Elgar prints on the title-pages of his oratorios the letters A.
The principal oratorios of Handel may be purchased for as many shillings each as they cost pounds years ago.
That at least seems to be the inference to be drawn from the remark which he made to the Emperor Francis on being asked which of his two oratorios he himself preferred.
The overshadowing altitudes and majesties of the chasm moved him as might oratorios or other solemn music.
And yet that scenery, although only a prelude, only an overture to the transcendent oratorios of landscape which were to follow, was in itself a horribly sublime creation.
Ladies are requested to sit in the Pit, as well as Boxes, as is the Custom at the Operas andOratorios in London, for which purpose the Pit seats will be made thoroughly clean.
The stage will be disposed in the same manner as at Mr. Handel's Oratorios in London.
It is of more use in part-singing and cathedral music than for solo work, although in some oratorios solo parts have been allotted to it.
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Instead of church service on the Sabbath evenings, the oratorios were given.
After these two grand performances I heard many oratorios Sunday evenings at the Boston Music Hall, where each Sabbath a sacred concert was held instead of evening services in the churches.
The oratorioswere interpreted by the best singers.
This was but one of the beautifuloratorios that were given during my stay in Massachusetts.
He returned to Lucca, where for some years he was prominent as a player, and there he produced two oratorios and an opera.
He composed a number of cantatas, and after the death of Handel he superintended the performance of Handel's oratorios at Covent Garden.
But the tide of fashionable feeling ran so strongly against him, that even the performance of the oratorios of Saul and Israel in Egypt scarcely paid expenses.
The words of nearly all the oratorios are ridiculous.
His glorious oratorioswere most of them produced under the stress of keen adversity, loss of fortune, and failing health, quite sufficient to have discouraged any one not truly inspired.
The duet and chorus in "Judas Maccabaeus," and some others of his finest efforts were produced after his total deprivation of sight; nor did he cease to conduct his oratorios in public on account of his blindness.
Not only do we have to consider arias and passages from the great oratorios and operas as a part of the present-day repertoire, but the song of the "Lied" type has come to have a valuable significance in all concert work.
While there he became the soloist, singing many of the leading arias from famous oratorios before he was able to identify the musical importance of such works.
Miscellaneous concerts were given in St. Andrew's Hall, and selections from oratorios in St. Peter's church.
In the choral numbers of the five masses, and in the oratorios Die Heilige Elisabeth and Christus, the rarity of fugal polyphony acts as a drawback.
It was he who caused the operas of Gluck and Mozart to be performed there and introduced oratorios of Handel into the court concerts.
But to van Swieten, surely, is due the credit of having founded in Vienna a taste for Handel's oratorios and Bach's organ and pianoforte music, thus adding a new element to the music there.
There were no performances of Handel's oratorios in Vienna at this time, but it is not improbable that the suggestion for the Variations came from Baron van Swieten.
For a hobby he wrote music in collaboration with Mr. Festing Jones, oratorios which were to be as much like Handel's oratorios as possible.
It was said that it was at Calwick Abbey that his greatest oratorios were conceived, and that the organ on which he played was still preserved.
All that was mortal of Handel was buried in Westminster Abbey, but his magnificent oratorios will endure to the end of time.
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