Editing Oratorio (section)

===Victorian era===
Britain continued to look to Germany for its composers of oratorio. The [[Birmingham Festival]] commissioned various oratorios including [[Felix Mendelssohn]]'s ''[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elijah]]'' in 1846, later performed in German as ''Elias''. German composer [[Georg Vierling]] is noted for modernizing the secular oratorio form.<ref name=history>{{cite web |url=https://archive.org/stream/historyofmusic05naumuoft/historyofmusic05naumuoft_djvu.txt|title=The History of Music|access-date=9 February 2012}}</ref>

[[John Stainer]]'s ''[[The Crucifixion (Stainer)|The Crucifixion]]'' (1887) became the stereotypical battlehorse of massed amateur choral societies. [[Edward Elgar]] tried to revive the genre around the turn of century with the composition of ''The Light of Life'' (''Lux Christi''), ''[[The Dream of Gerontius]]'', ''[[The Apostles (Elgar)|The Apostles]]'' and ''[[The Kingdom (Elgar)|The Kingdom]]''.{{Clarify|date=August 2016}}<!--In what way? By conducting performances of Baroque works? By composing some new examples? In either case, was he successful, or a failure (as the following paragraphs suggest)? The article on ''Gerontius'' says he resisted the term oratorio-->