Bücher von Howard E. Smither

History of the Oratorio: Vol. 2: the Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Protestant Germany and England

History of the Oratorio: Vol. 1: The Oratorio in the Baroque Era: Italy, Vienna, Paris

With this volume, Howard Smither completes his monumental History of the Oratorio. Here, Smither surveys the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century oratorio, stressing the main geographic areas of oratorio composition and performance: Germany, Britain, America, and France.

This volume is the third of a four-volume comprehensive study that offers a new synthesis of what is known to date about the oratorio. In this volume Smither discusses the Italian oratorio from the 1720s to the early nineteenth century and oratorios from other parts of Europe from the 1750s to the nineteenth century.