During his lifetime, Agricola wrote a number of Italian operas, as well as Lieder, chorale preludes, various other keyboard pieces and church music, especially oratorios and cantatas.

He composed about 75 operas, 16 symphonies, 19 string quartets, 193 songs, 45 duets, 3 oratorios, 28 cantatas, instrumental concertos, sonatas, and other chamber pieces.

Sullivan composed 23 operas, 13 major orchestral works, eight choral works and oratorios, two ballets, incidental music to several plays, and numerous hymns and other church pieces, songs, and piano and chamber pieces.

Libretti for operas, oratorios, and cantatas in the 17th and 18th centuries generally were written by someone other than the composer, often a well-known poet.

Like most other Latin oratorios of the period, it is in one section only.

George Frideric Handel, most famous today for his Messiah, also wrote other oratorios based on themes from Greek and Roman mythology and biblical topics.

In Britain a " Great Handel Festival " was held at the Crystal Palace in 1857, performing Messiah and other Handel oratorios, with a chorus of 2, 000 singers and an orchestra of 500.

Handel's music for Messiah is distinguished from most of his other oratorios by an orchestral restraint — a quality which the musicologist Percy M. Young observes was not adopted by Mozart and other later arrangers of the music.

The size of an opera orchestra varies, but for some operas, oratorios and other works, it may be very large ; for some romantic period works ( or for many of the operas of Richard Strauss ), it can be well over 100 players.

Stanley's works include the opera Teraminta, the dramatic cantata The Choice of Hercules, twelve other cantatas with texts by John Hawkins, the oratorios Jephtha, The Fall of Egypt and Zimri, and instrumental music, notably three volumes of Voluntaries for organ ( 1748, 1752, and 1754 ).

Jommelli wrote cantatas, oratorios and other sacred works, but by far the most important part of his output were his operas, particularly his opere serie of which he composed around sixty examples, several with libretti by Metastasio.

The Liceo of Bologna possesses the manuscripts of two oratorios ; and a requiem, with some other pieces of church music, are now in Vienna.

The Italian overture is a piece of orchestral music with which several operas, oratorios and other large-scale works in the late 17th and early 18th centuries opened.

Along with hymns, oratorios, cantatas and other religious music, chamber music of the Western tradition remains an important part of Barbadian musical through an integral role in the services of the Anglican church.

He also wrote oratorios, cantatas, concertos ( including two for the double bass and one for the viola ), chamber music, piano pieces and other works.

Most of his output was for vocal forces, including stage works, oratorios, masses and other sacred pieces.

Among his other pieces were oratorios, symphonies, concertos, and chamber music, including some of the earliest known string quintets composed with two violas.

Mozart also sat at the keyboard and rendered the orchestral scores of Handel's oratorios in a spontaneous keyboard reduction ( while, according to Joseph Weigl, also singing one of the choral parts and correcting errors of the other singers ).

He studied in Germany under Hauptmann and Mendelssohn, and on his return to England composed several oratorios and other pieces, none of which had permanent success.

These events consisted primarily of oratorios and other large scale choral works performed by the Norwich Festival Chorus, then 300 strong.

Because women could not perform in public, in the 18th century the choristers sang the soprano parts in performances of Handel's oratorios and other works.

In composing the opera Handel borrowed extensively from his earlier oratorios and cantatas, and from other composers including Reinhard Keiser, Arcangelo Corelli and Jean-Baptiste Lully.

( in addition to the pieces already mentioned ): Piccolo Concerto, for 12 wind instruments, timpani, percussion and piano, orchestral works such as Musica Sinfonica, Bafadis, and Trittico, 8 symphonies ( No. 1: The River — May 1940, for soprano, chorus and orchestra, No. 2: Sinfonia giocosa, No. 3: Facets, No. 7: Sinfonia concertante, for 11 wind instruments ); concertos for flute, harp, percussion, piano, trumpet, violin, 2 oboes, 2 soprano-saxophones, 3 trombones ( Piccola musica concertata ), 2 string orchestras, electronic organ and for violin, viola and double-bass ; 3 oratorios ( inter al., Anthropolis ) and many other choral pieces ( inter al.

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