Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

César Franck (1822-1890) is now regarded as one of the most important French composers and organists of his time. 'Les Béatitudes', his monumental oratorio setting the text from Jesus's Sermon on the...

This is how the Parzen, the goddesses of fate in Greek and Roman mythology, sang: the Parzenlied in Goethe's verse drama "Iphigenia in Tauris", which became the model for Johannes Brahms, is about cur...

So sangen die Parzen, die Schicksalsgöttinnen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie: Von Fluch und Schicksal handelt das Parzenlied in Goethes Versdrama "Iphigenie auf Tauris", das zur Vorlage für Johan...

Gabriel Fauré’s "Pavane" is one of his most popular compositions. What is less known, however, is that the premiere of this stylized dance in April 1888 was actually performed in this present version...

Gabriel Fauré’s "Pavane" is certainly one of his most popular compositions. You may, however, be surprised to learn that the premiere of this stylized dance in April 1888 was actually performed in a v...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

The Codex Buranus, the famous collection of medieval song and drama texts from the Benediktbeuern monastery, still holds many exciting secrets today: Who wrote the texts? Why, and above all: for whom?...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

Gabriel Fauré composed the "Cantique de Jean Racine" in 1865 as the prize-winning final work of his musical training. The "Cantique" already possesses the typical Fauré characteristics of an expressiv...

Das deutsche Nunc dimittis 'Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener' hat Schütz 1656 anlässlich des Todes des sächsischen Kurfürsten Johann Georg I. gleich 'auf zweyerlei Art' vertont und drucken lassen. D...

In his Christmas motet 'Hodie Christus natus est' Schütz employs the full mastery of his madrigalian musical language and exploits all the sonorous richness which the six part scoring offers him. The...

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 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...