Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

'Charming Berenice' - the Earl of Shaftesbury attended a rehearsal of the opera on 12 May 1737 and went into raptures about this 'inexpressible delight'. 'Berenice' was premiered at Covent Garden Thea...

George Frideric Handel's "Siroe, Re di Persia", HWV 24, was premiered on February 17, 1728 at the King's Theatre in London's Haymarket. With Francesca Cuzzoni, Faustina Bordoni and Francesco Bernardi,...

In the fourth volume of his “General History of Music”, Charles Burney's verdict on Handel's “Giustino” was as enthusiastic as it was prophetic: “Upon the whole, this opera, so seldom acted and so lit...

When the librettist Paolo Rolli and George Frideric Handel composed an Italian opera about Scipio's conquest of the Iberian port city of Carthago Nova in 1726, these events from 209 BC were already al...

Handel’s “Semele”, which premiered in February 1744, is based on an adapted version of William Congreve’s opera libretto titled “The Story of Semele”, originally published in 1706. However, neither Ha...

Based on the Urtext of the "Halle Handel Edition" Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) Includes the version of the premiere as well as two further performable versions Practical, easy-to-play piano reduction...

> Hallische Händel-Ausgabe (HHA) II/28 > Ersetzt BA4027 > Leinen

> Urtext edition based on the 'Halle Handel Edition' > With a singable translation in German > Adapted in keeping with the revised score > Comprehensive bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic piano...

> Urtext edition based on the 'Halle Handel Edition' > With a singable translation in German > Adapted in keeping with the revised score > Comprehensive bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic piano...

Generalbassaussetzung: Thomas Hauschka

The premiere of Gluck's "Alceste" marked the reopening of the Vienna Burgtheater after the period of mourning decreed by the death of Archduchess Maria Josepha. The inspiration for the libretto, which...

This collection of all instrumental numbers from "Castor et Pollux" (tragédie in a prologue and five acts) brings together the movements and dances of all versions based on the volumes of the “Opera O...

This collection of the instrumental numbers from the tragédie in a prologue and five acts "Castor et Pollux" brings together the movements and dances from all versions based on the volumes of Opera Om...

The opera Naïs, which premiered at the Académie royale in the Palais-Royal in Paris on April 22, 1749 to celebrate the signing of the so-called 'Peace of Aachen' and was revived in August 1764, shortl...

The opera "Dido and Aeneas", a retelling of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as an audience favorite. It owes this to the skill of its composer Henry Purcel...

Agostino Steffani's “Henrico Leone” is a work that stands out in the history of opera at the end of the 17th century due to the confluence of very different factors. The world premiere marked the inau...

Originally conceived as a prologue for the ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", the one-act opera "La Naissance d'Osiris" was performed only twice, together with revivals of "Pigmalion" and "Les Incas...

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...

Richer than ever - Rameau’s 'Zoroastre' in the version of 1756 Rameau’s revised version of his opera 'Zoroastre', which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académi...

Nach 'Hippolyte et Aricie' und 'Castor et Pollux' ist 'Dardanus' Rameaus dritte Tragédie lyrique für Paris. Mit ihrer vielgestaltigen Musik ist sie ein absoluter Höhepunkt dieser Gattung. Die Handlung...

Rameau's "Io" has only survived posthumously, namely in the form of a copy of the score and the orchestral parts, both of which were produced in Rameau's successor generation from the now lost autogra...

'Les Paladins' was Rameau's last work premiered at the Académie royale de musique in 1760. Sharply criticized on account of its overtly comical libretto, the work was withdrawn after fifteen performan...

The Acte de ballet "Zéphire" was never performed during the lifetime of its authors, although the autograph manuscript shows traces that Rameau worked on it several times between 1748 and 1759 – possi...