This "oratorietto" was composed by myself, Rayn Jandos and Frederick Huang in an hour (and revised for another hour by myself with a fugal choral finale) as a joke, where Jandos, a fellow baritone at my music school sought to break the world record of "shortest oratorietto" with his libretto depicting the short-lived reign of Roman Emperor Lucius Domitius Domitianus. Coming out of the grandeur of my own 1:45:00 second symphony (Op. 19), I took the challenge (crashed by pianist Huang, who contributed a theme from his Cello Sonata No. 2). This work provided me an exercise in the opposite extreme—how to present thematic material in the most concise way possible.

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