Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

The critical edition presents the music to the verse comedy 'Soliman second, ou Les Trois Sultanes' by Charles-Simon Favart (1710-1792), which was performed before the Viennese courtly audience in the...

Rameau's only surviving opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has survived in two versions (1745 and 1746), whereby the 1745 version was long considered lost. Volume IV.12 of the "Opera omnia Rameau"...

> Instrumental numbers in order of performance, but also grouped by key in the list of contents, enabling them to be combined freely into orchestral suites > Based on the first scholarly-critical edit...

The new critical edition of the score has finally shed light on the complex history of its transmission: at its first performance on August 23, 1735, Rameau's "ballet héroïque" Les Indes galantes stil...

Generalbass-Aussetzung: Wolfgang Hirschmann

Rameau's only surviving opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has survived in two versions (1745 and 1746), whereby the 1745 version was long considered lost. Volume IV.12 of the series 'Opera omnia R...

'Pigmalion' was the first example of a one-act ballet, preceded by an overture, composed specifically for the Académie royale de musique. With this work, Rameau turned to the form of the petit opéra....

“Les Boréades", edited by Sylvie Bouissou, the project leader of the Rameau Complete Edition and a central figure in international Rameau research, is a milestone – at last this exceptional work is ac...

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), song an...

The ballet “Les Fêtes d'Hébé” deals with the talents that are usually the subject of the Opéra and are placed at the service of love on stage: poetry and declamation (1st entrée, "La Poésie"), song an...

Les Fêtes d'Hébé or "Les Talents Lyriques" (1739) belong to the highly opulent ballet opera genre, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's "Indes Galantes" (1735) is often consi...

Les Fêtes d'Hébé or "Les Talents Lyriques" (1739) belong to the highly opulent genre of ballet opera, which was only common in 18th century courtly France. Rameau's "Indes Galantes" (1735) is often re...

This edition unites all the purely instrumental parts of Rameau's comédie-ballet 'Les Paladins' for performance as a suite in the concert hall. In view of the wealth of the work's musical treasures an...

This edition unites all the purely instrumental and dance numbers from one of Rameau's most popular operas, along with those from his last one-act opéra-ballet 'Io', which was left unfinished at the t...

From the Birthday Cantata, this familiar tune is filled with the infectious melodic material and mesmerizing harmonic content that are so characteristically Bach. The Best of Bach can be played with j...

From the Birthday Cantata, this familiar tune is filled with the infectious melodic material and mesmerizing harmonic content that are so characteristically Bach. Best of Bach can be played with just...

From the Birthday Cantata, this familiar tune is filled with the infectious melodic material and mesmerizing harmonic content that are so characteristically Bach. The Best of Bach can be played with j...

Music for a Leipzig 'coffee house' and for other venues - Johann Sebastian Bach composed not only for the nobility and the church, but also for bourgeois musical culture. Among these works are the har...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...