Modern to Classical Choir Sheet Music

Mendelssohn's unfinished 3rd oratorio in the first critical edition. Performance material is available separately for Part 1 and Part 2 of the oratorio. Part 1: "The Nativity", Part 2: "The Passion of...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

Psalm 112 was composed by the 22-year-old George Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy. The thematic material of the composition comes in part from one of Handel's early works in Halle, which uses...

Camille Saint-Saëns composed his Oratorio de Noël for five vocal solos, mixed choir, strings, organ and harp in 1858. The work, which is sung in Latin, is based on texts from the Old and New Testament...

The Gloria is the 13-year-old Mendelssohn's first major church composition. It was written at the beginning of 1822 as part of his composition lessons with Carl Friedrich Zelter, the director of the B...

Experience Joseph Haydn's radiant Viennese Classical masterpiece in a practical and resonant arrangement: the beloved Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, widely cherished as the "Little Organ Mass", c...

Missa in honorem Beatissimae Virginis Mariae - Haydns sogenannte Große Orgelsolomesse in Es-Dur zählt zu jenen Werken des Komponisten, die schon früh eine ausgesprochen weite Verbreitung fanden. Die i...

Missa Cellensis in honorem BVM. Cäcilienmesse - Als Joseph Haydn 1766, nach dem Tod seines Vorgängers Gregor Joseph Werner, die Leitung der Esterházy-Kapelle übernahm, begann er mit der Komposition se...

When Joseph Haydn took over the direction of the Esterházy Chapel in 1766 after the death of his predecessor Gregor Joseph Werner, he began composing his first and most extensive Missa solemnis. The t...

Haydn probably wrote the Missa Sancti Nicolai in 1772 for Prince Nicolaus Esterházy's name day. Not only is it comparatively large in scale, but the orchestra is also larger than usual for Missae brev...

In the Mariazell Mass Haydn succeeds convincingly in creating a specific synthesis between the high demands of 'autonomous' art music on the one hand, which are reflected in the corresponding composit...

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...

Joseph Haydn's "Missa in B flat" with the nickname "Mass of Creation", the fifth of his six late Missae solemnes, was composed in just six weeks in 1801. Like all of his great masses, he composed this...

Due to the requirement of the Archbishop of Salzburg that even a solemn mass should not last longer than three quarters of an hour, Mozart composed a "Missa brevis et solemnis", i.e. a solemn mass wit...

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

Mozart's mass settings have always been an integral part of church music practice. Like few other settings of the Ordinary, they combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requireme...

Composed in the autumn of 1768 during an extended stay in Vienna, this work marks the beginning of a series of masses in which Mozart was always concerned with the expression of true and genuine churc...

The "Missa brevis in D minor" is one of the few masses that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Only two others, the "Missa solemnis", K. 139, and the "Great Mass", K. 427, are also in a minor key.

The "Missa brevis in F" KV 192 (186f) is a highlight among Mozart's youth masses. The music is extremely accessible and charming, and due to the Credo calls interspersed throughout the third movement,...

In the summer of 1774, Mozart wrote two masses in close proximity to each other, the Missa brevis in F K. 192 and the Missa brevis in D K. 194. Both compositions are characterized by a more or less pr...

The nickname of this mass is due to the independent solo presence of the organ instrument during the "Benedictus" section. K. 259 is thus part of a tradition dating back to the 1730s, which can be tra...