Editing Oratorio (section)

===Late baroque===
In the late [[Baroque|baroque period]] oratorios increasingly became "sacred opera". In Rome and Naples [[Alessandro Scarlatti]] was the most noted composer. In Vienna the court poet [[Metastasio]] produced annually a series of oratorios for the court which were set by [[Antonio Caldara|Caldara]], [[Johann Adolph Hasse|Hasse]] and others. Metastasio's best known oratorio libretto ''[[La passione di Gesù Cristo]]'' was set by at least 35 composers from 1730 to 1790. In Germany the middle baroque oratorios moved from the early-baroque ''Historia'' style Christmas and Resurrection settings of [[Heinrich Schütz]], to the Passions of [[J. S. Bach]], oratorio-passions such as ''[[Der Tod Jesu]]'' set by [[Telemann]] and [[Carl Heinrich Graun]]. After Telemann came the galante oratorio style of [[C. P. E. Bach]].