Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

The cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV 1 has become somewhat famous: With it, Bach's ambitious project of a choral cantata year came to an abrupt end on March 25, 1725 after around nine mo...

Bach composed "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" BWV 2 for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity in 1724 as the second cantata of the choral cantata year. It is based on Martin Luther's rewriting of the 12th P...

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...

Bach composed the cantata "Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden" BWV 6 for Easter Monday in 1725. A choral cantata was actually planned for this holiday as well, but the choral cantata year breaks...

The cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BWV 7 for St. John's Day (24.6.) 1724 is the third cantata of the choral cantata year begun on the 1st Sunday after Trinity (11.6.1724). It is based on Mar...

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,...

Kantate für den 6. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, Obda, 2 Vl, Va, Bc.

Bach created a special kind of choral cantata for the Feast of the Visitation (July 2, 1724): It is not based on a Protestant hymn, but on a Gregorian chorale (9th psalm tone). The German Magnificat -...

On March 2, 1714, Johann Sebastian Bach, who had previously worked as a chamber musician and organist at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar, was promoted to concertmaster and commissioned to co...

Bach's cantata BWV 13 (from the third Leipzig cantata cycle) was first performed on the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1726. The work is characterized in particular by the unusual scoring for Bach's chu...

Kantate zum 14. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Str, Org

The cantata dates from Bach's Weimar period. The instrumental scoring with four violas and basso continuo, to which two recorders led at octave intervals to viola I and II are added in a Leipzig perfo...

Kantate zum Michaelistag. Soli STB, Coro SATB, 3 Tr, Timp, 2 Ob, Taille, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bc

The cantata O Ewigkeit, o Donnerwort BWV 20 for the 1st Sunday after Trinity 1724 marks the beginning of Bach's second Leipzig year, which will go down in history as the choral cantata year and is gen...

The present edition allows the cantata to be performed in the various scorings used by Bach. In the scoring indications for the solo parts for high voice, Bach's assignment in Leipzig is given first,...

The cantata "Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe" was performed together with BWV 23 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

The cantata Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn was performed together with BWV 22 on Sunday Estomihi 1723 in Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig cantorate rehearsal. Both cantatas were later repeated as part...

At the heart of Cantata 24 is a powerful and magnificent choral movement based on the Bible text "All things therefore, whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them", symmetric...

The cantata for the 14th Sunday after Trinity (August 1723) is from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle. The opening chorus, which is unique in Bach's cantata oeuvre, is particularly noteworthy: Bach h...

Kantate zum 16. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], 2 Ob/1 Obca, Str, Org obl. - Tonart c-dorisch

The Leipzig council election cantata "Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir" from 1731 is one of Bach's cantatas in which the organ is given an obbligato role. In the introductory Sinfonia (an arrangem...

The cantata Freue dich, erlöste Schar BWV 30 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's last church cantatas. Originally composed as a parody of the cantata Angenehmes Wiederau BWV 30a for the Feast of St. Joh...

The starting point of the text is the Easter Gospel with the resurrection of Jesus, which is first celebrated extensively. This is followed by an appeal to the faithful: Every single Christian must ta...