Advanced Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music

The arias for one voice, one obbligato instrument and basso continuo from Johann Sebastian Bach's cantatas are among the highest art forms of Baroque music thanks to their magnificent melodies, their...

J.S. Bach performed the cantata for the Fourth Advent and the Feast of the Visitation. Since he had no staff available in 1716, the brass instrumentation (1 trumpet) was very sparse. I left out the th...

This lively work by 16th-century composer Luca Marenzio is available here in a new edition by Cameron LaBarr and Parker Payne. In triple SATB choirs, this is a work for collegiate, community, and prof...

This concerto for soprano recorder, strings and basso continuo in F major by Giuseppe Sammartini is the best-known and most frequently performed concerto for soprano recorder. It is an exceptionally m...

In the 'Art of the Baroque', flutists can get to know the music of the Baroque and more: the selected works are meaningfully supplemented by short texts about the composers, the era and playing instru...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

Bach composed the cantata "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid" for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1725; it is part of the choral cantata cycle. In the large-scale choral movement, a sorrowful choral mo...

The surviving parts for the cantata "Christ lag in Todes Banden" BWV 4.2 were used for a performance on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1725; this performance was presumably an emergency solution, as the chor...

Bach composed the choral cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 5 for the 19th Sunday after Trinity in 1724. The cantata belongs to Bach's 2nd Leipzig year, the choral cantata year. The opening movement...

The cantata Liebster Gott, wenn wird ich sterben belongs in its original form BWV 8.1 to Bach's choral cantata cycle of 1724/25 and was first performed on the 16th Sunday after Trinity (September 24,...

Festive horn sounds open Bach's cantata Darzu ist erscheinen der Sohn Gottes BWV 40, first performed on 26.12.1723. The two inner chorales, which are inserted between the recitative and the correspond...

The cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele BWV 78 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known vocal compositions today. It owes its popularity not least to the unusual combination of contrapuntal density i...

The "Actus tragicus" or "God's time is the very best time" BWV 106 is one of Bach's best-known and most appreciated works with an unbroken resonance to this day - a "work of genius that even great mas...