Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

This lovely melody has become one of O'Carolan's most popular pieces. In this arrangement the melody is shared by all instruments giving young students the opportunity to play with expression. An opti...

Filled with enchanting melodies and harmonies, O'Carolan's Draught is a lyrical air by Ireland's beloved Baroque-era composer, Turlough O'Carolan, and arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Truly a crossov...

Filled with enchanting melodies and harmonies, O'Carolan's Draught is a lyrical air by Ireland's beloved Baroque-era composer, Turlough O'Carolan, and arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Truly a crossov...

Filled with enchanting melodies and harmonies, O'Carolan's Draught is a lyrical air by Ireland's beloved Baroque-era composer, Turlough O'Carolan, and arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Truly a crossov...

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

The coffee cantata "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" and the peasant cantata " Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet " - both based on texts by Picander - are among Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known and most fre...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

To celebrate the Peace Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, the "Utrecht Jubilate" was composed in the same year, shortly after Handel had composed the "Te Deum"....

The libretto of what is likely Handel's shortest opera - and apart from Mozart's 'Lucio Silla' the most important musical setting of the text - is based on Plutarch's biography of Roman consul and dic...

The libretto of Handel's probably shortest opera - the most important setting of the material alongside Mozart's "Lucio Silla" - is based on Plutarch's description of the life of the cruel Roman consu...

Handel's three-act opera "Sosarme, Re di Media" (HWV 30) was first performed in 1732 with the star castrato Senesino in the title role. The plot centers on a family conflict over the succession to the...

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio "La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" in 1707, based on an allegorical and moralistic libretto by his patron Cardinal Benedetto Pamp...

Handel's cantatas for solo voice and basso continuo are a treasure waiting to be discovered. There are more than 80 compositions and probably the least known group of works by Handel. Their neglect is...

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...

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...

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...

Continuo-Aussetzung: Wolfgang Thein

> 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...

Amongst Rameau’s stage works which have come down to us in two main versions, such as “Dardanus“ (1739, 1744), “Platée“ (1745, 1749) and “Zoroastre“ (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long a...

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...