Sheet Music for Choir

No. 13 of the 'Opus ultimum'

Alongside Gesualdo and Monteverdi, Marenzio is one of the great Italian madrigalists. The influence of his sophisticated madrigalian art on the younger generation of composers is shown by the fact tha...

At the age of eighty-six Heinrich Schütz composed his last work in 1671 with his monumental setting of Psalm 119, complemented in an appendix with a setting of Psalm 100, and a setting of a German Mag...

The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, have remained relatively unknown to this day. And yet these mot...

The Christmas anthem "Nazareth" is based on a composition by Charles Gounod entitled "Jésus de Nazareth". The original work, which Gounod composed for solo baritone and orchestra with only a few bars...

The Christmas anthem "Nazareth" is based on a composition by Charles Gounod entitled "Jésus de Nazareth". The original work, which Gounod composed for solo baritone and orchestra with only a few bars...

The Missa secunda was composed in 1964. It is dedicated by the composer "to my dear wife Margit on the occasion of our 25th wedding anniversary". The Sanctus was composed later. The Credo is not set t...

1866 komponierte Anton Bruckner seine feierliche e-Moll-Messe, die er in den Jahren 1876-1882 noch einmal einer umfangreichen Revision unterzog. Unter den Messen Bruckners und auch seiner Zeitgenossen...

Bruckner described his setting of Psalm 150 (1892) as "my best festive cantata of all". With its monumental Halleluja theme and the great fugue on "Alles, was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn", the psalm sett...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Sakrileg oder Geniestreich? Der Komponist und Kapellmeister Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) instrumentierte den 1. Satz der berühmten 'Mondscheinsonate' von Beethoven für Orchester (transponiert n...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (CV31080-00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently-performed cantatas. But the well-known form of the work, with its great opening chorale chorus, repr...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

Rheinberger’s large-scale Christmas cantata Der Stern von Bethlehem (The Star of Bethlehem) is one of the composer’s most popular and best-known works. It retells the Christmas story in nine lyrical s...

Rheinberger’s large-scale Christmas cantata Der Stern von Bethlehem (The Star of Bethlehem) is one of the composer’s most popular and best-known works. It retells the Christmas story in nine lyrical s...

One of the most important mass compositions of the pre-classical period and also one of the earliest examples of the "Mannheim" symphonic church style. First edition of the work.

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

In 1784, Haydn modernized his oratorio "Il ritorno di Tobia" for a revival at the Burgtheater in Vienna. He added the choruses "Ah, gran Dio" and "Svanisce in un momento", the second of which was rewo...

Johann Michael Haydn's masses are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime, as the large number of copies shows. This also applies to the Missa Sancti Dominici, which...