The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers
George P. Upton, a Chicago music critic, wrote The Standard Oratorios as a companion to his handbook on the standard operas. After a short history of the oratorio, it goes composer by composer through the works most often performed in its day, from Bach's Christmas Oratorio and Saint Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah and Israel in Egypt, and Haydn's Creation to Mendelssohn's Elijah, the requiems of Mozart, Berlioz, Brahms and Verdi, and works by Gounod, Liszt, Dvořák and Sullivan. For each it tells the sacred story, sketches the principal numbers, and adds a short biography of the composer, and it closes with a chapter on sacred music in America. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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