Wolfgang Hochstein

Johann Adolf Hasse's Requiem in B flat was probably composed in the second half of the 1750s and is presented here for the first time in a printed version. Nothing is known about the purpose of this b...

Psalm 150 from 1884 is a composition from César Franck's creative maturity. The characteristic features of his style appear in a small space: the emphatically symphonic language, the bold, unmistakabl...

Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

Diffusa est gratia (Graduale) für 2 Soprane, Alt und Generalbass Diffusa est gratia (Offertorium) für Sopran, Alt, 2 Tenöre und Generalbass Im April 1749 wurde Niccolò Jommelli (17141774) zum Vizekape...

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor for mixed choir (without vocal soloists) and orchestra, which is presented here in a critically correct new edition, is one of the most important contributions to the ge...

Unlike in the well-known settings of the "Seven Words" by Schütz or Haydn, Franck comments on the sayings of the crucified Jesus in his opulently scored composition with passages from the Old and New...

The Missa in Tempore Belli is an interesting work in several respects. On the one hand, this mass setting allows some conclusions to be drawn about the situation of Austrian church music under the inf...

The "Missa in d" published here was written as the third of Haydn's "High Masses" in the summer of 1798, i.e. between the two late oratorios. According to the autograph dating, Haydn needed less than...

Inspired by Mozart and Cherubini's Requiem settings, Rheinberger created his first major sacred work in 1865 with the "Requiem" op. 60. Before its premiere in 1870, he reworked it once again and dedic...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The harrowing Old Testament story of the army commander Jephthah, bound by a sacred vow to kill his daughter, inspired the Roman composer Giacomo Carissimi to create this intense and moving setting. W...

The Missa in B flat major by Joseph Haydn presented here has gone down in music history under the nickname "Theresienmesse". The reason for this name is unclear, but could be related to the performanc...

The festive composition with its large orchestration for the time was performed for the first time on June 29, 1751 on the occasion of the consecration of the new Catholic Court Church in Dresden.

Venetian version The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice. As this was a musical training center for talented girls and young women, the vocal pa...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C major for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Friedrich August II in November 1763 in the...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774) war um die Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts einer der herausragenden Repräsentanten der Neapolitanischen Oper. Neben dieser unbestrittenen Bedeutung geriet sein damals nicht min...

Ungeachtet der Tatsache, dass man Antonio Maria Gaspare Sacchini heute kaum mehr kennt, genoss dieser in den Jahren um 1760/85 ein unbestritten hohes Ansehen als eine führende Komponistenpersönlichkei...