Kalmus Choral Library

The well-known hymn NIMM VON UNS, HERR, DU TREUER GOTT, also set to music by J.S. Bach, was written by Martin Moller during a period of plague and was often used as a plea against God's anger. Dietric...

Best known as the composer of the anthem JERUSALEM, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918), wrote a number of songs for choir and orchestra. One of these, BLEST PAIR OF SIRENS (AT A SOLEMN MUSIC),...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) began work on The Music Makers, Op. 69, a work for solo contralto, mixed chorus, and orchestra, in 1903 and completing it in 1912. It sets the entirety of Ode by Arthur O'Shau...

Edward Elgar (1857-1934) began work on The Music Makers, Op. 69, a work for solo contralto, mixed chorus, and orchestra, in 1903 and completing it in 1912. It sets the entirety of Ode by Arthur O'Shau...

Gabriel Faure's (1845-1924) REQIUEM, Op. 48, is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed...

Gabriel Faure's (1845-1924) REQIUEM, Op. 48, is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) set four poems from George Herbert's (1593-1633) collection The Temple: Sacred Poems in 1911 to music for solo baritone in a work titled Five Mystical Songs. The sol...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) composed the sacred choral work Veni Sancte Spiritus (Come, Holy Spirit), K. 47 in 1768, at the age of 12. As Mozart added the subtitle "Offertorium," it is clear t...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) began composition of his Great Mass in C minor, K. 427/417a in 1782 as a promise to himself to write a major work for his native Salzburg. This period was shortly a...

When the American, music-loving philanthropist, Mrs. Jeannette Thurber, convinced the world-renowned Czech composer Antonin Dvorák (1841-1904) to be the new director of her National Conservatory of Mu...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Mass No. 15 in C, K. 317 on March 23, 1779 after a period of seeking for employment in places such as Paris and Mannheim. Failing that, Mozart's fathe...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) completed his Mass No. 15 in C, K. 317 on March 23, 1779 after a period of seeking for employment in places such as Paris and Mannheim. Failing that, Mozart's fathe...

The final work composed by Mozart for the Salzburg Cathedral, the original title of this sacred choral composition, VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE (Solemn Vespers for a Confessor) did not include "de...

This wonderful, short choral masterpiece has a confusing heritage. Spuriously attributed in 1910 to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the six-movement MAGNIFICAT was actually composed by France...

This wonderful, short choral masterpiece has a confusing heritage. Spuriously attributed in 1910 to Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736), the six-movement MAGNIFICAT was actually composed by France...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote his Oratorio de Noël in a matter of weeks, completing the work ten days before it premiered on Christmas in 1858 in Paris. Written and structured in a style that...

Written by Georg Frideric Händel (1685-1759) in 1746, the 3-act oratorio Judas Maccabaeus (also spelled Judas Maccabeus) is based on 1 Maccabees, one of the deuterocanonical (or apocryphal) books of s...

Dietrich Buxtehude's (1637-1707) choral work Das neugeborne Kindelein, das herzeliebe Jesulein (The Newborn Babe, the Heavenly Child), BuxWV 13 is particularly well-suited for smaller ensembles and ch...

Dietrich Buxtehude's (1637-1707) choral work Das neugeborne Kindelein, das herzeliebe Jesulein (The Newborn Babe, the Heavenly Child), BuxWV 13 is particularly well-suited for smaller ensembles and ch...

Written by Georg Frideric Händel (1685-1759) in 1746, the 3-act oratorio Judas Maccabaeus (also spelled Judas Maccabeus) is based on 1 Maccabees, one of the deuterocanonical (or apocryphal) books of s...

Written by Georg Frideric Händel (1685-1759) in 1746, the 3-act oratorio Judas Maccabaeus (also spelled Judas Maccabeus) is based on 1 Maccabees, one of the deuterocanonical (or apocryphal) books of s...

Written by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) in 1910 for the music students of Morley College, this work for soloists and SATB chorus may be accompanied by keyboard or orchestra. Subtitled "Choral Fantasy on O...

Written by Gustav Holst (1874-1934) in 1910 for the music students of Morley College, this work for soloists and SATB chorus may be accompanied by keyboard or orchestra. Subtitled "Choral Fantasy on O...

Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Weihnachtsoratorium) was composed in 1734 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) during his Leipzig tenure as Thomaskantor, where he produced a remarkable series of sacred w...