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Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio has been published as a scholarly edition for practical use as part of the Stuttgart Bach Editions. The edition is based on Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The...

Psalm settings inspired Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy throughout his entire creative life. With Psalm 95 MWV A 16 ("Kommt, laßt uns anbeten"), he composed one of his most impressive and magnificent orch...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Disma Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass,...

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...

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...

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...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

Discover the sonic fascination and gripping dynamics of the Duo in A minor, Op. 15 for Two Pianos! This masterful work unfolds a rich spectrum of emotional depth, virtuosic dialogue, and harmonic full...

The collection includes 19 opera choruses by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Joseph Haydn, arranged for choir with piano accompaniment. The most beautiful choruses from the most popular of Mozart's operas...

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...

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 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...

What happens when you combine Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" with the liturgical Kyrie? Composer and conductor Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) dared to undertake this experiment—with a result that...

What happens when you combine Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" with the liturgical Kyrie? Composer and conductor Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) dared to undertake this experiment—with a result that...

What happens when you combine Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" with the liturgical Kyrie? Composer and conductor Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) dared to undertake this experiment—with a result that...

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

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...