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Composers
 Stravinsky |
 
in its development and musical characteristics,
only it is not performed in the theatre with
stage design and costumes, but in the concert hall.
Carissimi,
a 17th century composer, cancelled decor, costumes and theatrical production
as a whole, in his oratorios ("Jephte"
is the best-known among them) and replaced it with a narrator, telling
the plot in "dry" recitative
(recitativo seco).
also wrote oratorios ("The
Creation", and "The
Seasons"), as did Rossini
("Moses
in Egypt"), yet the
greatest of oratorio composers was Handel,
who brought this genre to its peak, in a series of biblically-inspired
epics. In oratorios such as "Judas
Maccabaeus", "Joseph",
"Samson",
and especially "Messiah" ,
these constituted the height of oratorio, Handel uses all the baroque
composition techniques and forms, and places
the choir in the center of the piece.
("Elijah")
and Stravinsky
("Oedipus
Rex") wrote wonderful oratorios, no prominent
composer set the oratorio at the core of his work, as Handel did. |
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