Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

Drame lyrique in three acts and a prologue (1779) Libretto: Louis-Théodore Baron de Tschudi (after "Narcissos ed Eco" from Ovid's Metamorfosi) (French) Premiere: September 24, 1779, Paris, Opéra (Pala...

Opéra comique in two acts (1760) Libretto: Louis Anseaume (for Jean-Louis Laruette's opéra comique "L'ivrogne corrigé ou Le mariage du diable" of 1759; adapted by Charles Simon Favart) (French) Premie...

Like many of Pietro Metastasio's libretti, "Ezio" has been set to music time and again - in addition to Handel, also by Nicola Porpora in 1728 and Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1750. As the historical...

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...

Ezio is based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which was first set to music by Nicola Porpora (1728), then - among many others - by Georg Friedrich Händel (1732) and in 1750 by Christoph Willibald...

In 1768, Gluck was asked by Empress Maria Theresa to compose a festive opera in Parma on the occasion of the wedding of her daughter Maria Amalia to Ferdinand of Spain. The composer accepted the commi...

The episode of Armida from Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century and has inspired numerous composers, includi...

The episode of Armida from Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century and has inspired numerous composers, includi...

Discover Heinrich Schütz’s masterful "Kleine geistliche Konzerte I" (1636) in this first-class full score edition published by Bärenreiter. Created amidst the hardships of the Thirty Years' War, Schüt...

> Baroque opera in honour of the conciliation of Europe on the occasion of the Treaty of Aachen > First practical performing edition with a keyboard reduction > Based on the complete edition Opera Omn...

> Baroque opera in honour of the conciliation of Europe on the occasion of the Treaty of Aachen > First practical performing edition with a keyboard reduction > Based on the complete edition Opera Omn...

Of the two main versions of Rameau's stage works such as "Dardanus" (1739, 1744), "Platée" (1745, 1749) and "Zoroastre" (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long as "Castor et Pollux". First p...

Richer than ever - Rameau's "Zoroastre" in the 1756 version Rameau's revised version of his opera "Zoroastre", which was performed and heard at the Académie royale de musique between January 20, 1756...

In Rameau's operatic oeuvre, "Io" is certainly the work surrounded by the most mystery: the acte de ballet has only survived in the form of a copy of the score and parts, which a collector from the ge...

Rameau's ballet-opera "Zéphire" is based on the legend of Zephire and Flora, as immortalized by Ovid in the fifth book of his "Fasti". Zéphire, the god of the west wind, loves Chloris, a forest nymph...

Rameau's ballet opera "Zéphire" is based on the legend of Zephire and Flora, as immortalized by Ovid in the fifth book of his "Fasti". Zéphire, the god of the west wind, loves Chloris, a wood nymph of...

It tells the love story between Fatime, accused of murdering her father, and the king's son Ramire, who is in love with her and frees her from the captivity of his father Alphonse, the King of Castile...

Volume 3 for soprano contains the first half of the large-scale arias and ariettas that Rameau composed for lyric soprano (the 18th-century equivalent of today's lyric coloratura soprano) in his prolo...

Immerse yourself in the magnificent world of the Baroque! The exquisite collection "Arien, Kantaten und Kanzonen des Barock" (Baroque Arias, Cantatas, and Canzonas), published by B-Note Musikverlag, o...

L'œuvre lyrique de Vivaldi reste paradoxalement méconnue : l'extraordinaire succès rencontré par un petit nombre de concertos a éclipsé tout un pan de ses compositions, notamment les opéras, auxquels...

Le texte de cet air provient du Demofoonte de Metastase (I.4). Dans la partition de L'Olimpiade, le texte littéraire original est rayé et remplacé par celui de l'air de Megacle en III.3, Lo seguitai f...

C'est seulement en 1713 que Vivaldi aborde l'opéra ; certaines sources parlent de 94 productions, mais seules 50 ont été identifiées. La musique de ces opéras n'ayant pas été imprimée, contrairement a...

C'est seulement en 1713 que Vivaldi aborde l'opéra ; certaines sources parlent de 94 productions, mais seules 50 ont été identifiées. La musique de ces opéras n'ayant pas été imprimée, contrairement a...

Gelido in ogni vena - Il Farnace - II, 5 Qual e` all'onte dei venti - Arsilda regina di Ponto - II, 13 Mille frodi e mille inganni - Arsilda regina di Ponto - III, 7 Chi vantar puo` il suo valor - In...