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Oedipus Rex
opera oratorio by Stravinsky
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history of oratorio
- In oratorio: Oratorio after 1750
Igor Stravinsky’s opera-oratorio Oedipus Rex (1927), with a Latin text, was most successful in the opera house. The Swiss Frank Martin was one of the most active oratorio composers in the mid-20th century. A number of large-scale works, generally secular in content, have come out of the Soviet…
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