About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 58. Chapters: Christmas Oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius, The Creation, Socrate, Saint Ludmila, The Book with Seven Seals, The Martyr of Antioch, The Light of the World, I Have a Dream, St. Paul, Christus, The Prodigal Son, Oedipus rex, Song of the Forests, Elijah, Die Israeliten in der Wuste, The Seasons, Not the Messiah, A Child of Our Time, Ecce Cor Meum, Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio, Easter Oratorio, Le roi David, Betulia liberata, The Apostles, La passione di Gesu Cristo, Juditha triumphans, The Kingdom, Das Floss der Medusa, El Nino, La Giuditta, Christ on the Mount of Olives, The Crucifixion, Tod und Sieg des Herrn, Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo, Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio, Le Deluge, La Passion de Simone, The Origin, Jeanne d'Arc au bucher, Jerusalem-Yerushalayim, Christus. Mysterium in a Prelude and Three Oratorios, Holy Boy, Gethsemane, Voices of Light, Oedipus Tex, Marie-Magdeleine, Die Jakobsleiter, Sancta Civitas, Ouroboros: Seasons of Life--Women's Passages, Jephte, Thiruvasakam in Symphony, First Light: An Oratorio, Eve, La Terre Promise, Der Tag des Gerichts. Excerpt: The Christmas Oratorio (German: ) BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. It was written for the Christmas season of 1734 incorporating music from earlier compositions, including three secular cantatas written during 1733 and 1734 and a now lost church cantata, BWV 248a. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript. The next performance was not until 17 December 1857 by the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin under Eduard Grell. The Christmas Oratorio is a particularly sophisticated example of parody music. The author of the text is unknown, although a likely collaborator was Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander). The work belongs to a group of three orator..
