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Coro SATB, Org - Orgelauszug

Coro SATB, Org - Orgelauszug

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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...

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...

Mit den beiden letzten Missae breves, der 'Missa Sti Nicolai' und der 'Missa St Joannis de Deo', hat Haydn auch in dieser Gattung Meisterwerke geschaffen, die bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten zu den belieb...

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...

The "Messa di Rimini", written in 1809 for Rimini Cathedral, is one of Rossini's extensive contributions to Musica sacra alongside the "Petite Messe solennelle", the "Stabat Mater" and the "Messa di G...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio of the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Contemporary critics considered Rheinberger's Stabat Mater op. 16, composed in 1864, to be "one of the most beautiful works in this genre in recent times. Distinguished by its broad structure and nobl...

In preparation for his final examinations at the Conservatory in Munich in the summer of 1854, the 15-year-old Rheinberger turned his focus on composing in the old a cappella style in various scorings...

In preparation for his final examinations at the Conservatory in Munich in the summer of 1854, the 15-year-old Rheinberger turned his focus on composing in the old a cappella style in various scorings...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

In March 1855, shortly before his 16th birthday, Josef Gabriel Rheinberger composed one of his most successful pieces, the Abendlied, Op. 69/3. Yet it was to be another 18 years before he published th...

Johann Michael Haydn worked for over 40 years at the prince-archbishop's court in Salzburg, for whom he composed most of his works. The St. Francis Mass, on the other hand, was commissioned by the imp...