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Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

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...

Psalm texts inspired Mendelssohn throughout his career, and he left behind five large orchestral psalms in addition to a cappella movements.

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,...

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...

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...

The "Da pacem" by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej is a calm prayer for peace, which at times escalates into a passionate plea. In the midst of the storm, we ask for silence and comfort - a...

The "Da pacem" by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej is a calm prayer for peace, which at times escalates into a passionate plea. In the midst of the storm, we ask for silence and comfort - a...

The main theme of "Benedictus Dominus" by Dariusz Zimnicki (composer and professor of conducting and choral singing in Warsaw) is simple and yet captivates with its melodic appeal. It develops continu...

The main theme of "Benedictus Dominus" by Dariusz Zimnicki (composer and professor of conducting and choral singing in Warsaw) is simple and yet captivates with its melodic appeal. It develops continu...

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...

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...

Of Eberlin's 56 known masses to date, this "Missa in C" is the shortest. Characterized by its ornate setting and ease of performance, the work is characterized as a mass for everyday use, which was in...

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...