Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Schon immer hatte Brahms ein sicheres Gespür für lyrische Qualität. Musikalisch besonders berührend wusste er mit seinem Zyklus 'Vier Quartette' op. 92 für Singstimmen und Klavier vier Gedichte von Go...

“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...