On this page you can find 21 of Caldara's 24 Viennese oratorios, composed between 1716 and 1736. Unfortunately, I could not have access to three of them because of the current health situation, which did not allow me to make a second trip to Vienna to consult the three manuscripts I still had to study at the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. By clicking on the icon of each oratorio, you can access its description in a pdf file. This includes all the numbers of the work, the characters, the instrumentation, the time signatures and the tonalities used, as well as the Italian text of each number or a link to the online libretti.
The orange lines correspond to the pieces with obbligato instruments and the pdf icon is the presentation page of the manuscripts to which I had access.
From the very beginning of my research, it seemed necessary to me to create a descriptive table of each oratorio. This allowed me to see more clearly in terms of the number of arias, voices and tonalities, and it also made it easier for me to place the arias with obligatory instruments that I found into their broader context. I then decided to make these tables accessible, both here in the research catalogue and on my website, so that anyone interested in Caldara's oratorios in Vienna could easily find out what was in them.
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