The next step is the printed score, followed a month or two later by the orchestral parts.
The score was lost until the mid-1970's, when some of the orchestral parts were found in Paris.
The remaining orchestral parts were destroyed in the 1960s.
In this case, the orchestral parts were a disaster.
Unfortunately, the orchestral parts have not been located for the oratorio.
The actor-musicians used orchestral parts from the Met's own library.
Lack of interest was so great that the orchestral parts were not published until 1874.
Strauss himself played his own piano reduction of the orchestral parts.
Writing the libretto and the music took seven months; the orchestral parts were not finished until two weeks before the premiere.
There he composed the opera Lizzie and other orchestral parts.