Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

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...

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

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...

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...

The familiar Johann Sebastian Bach melody will be loved by one and all. Solidly scored for your strings or full orchestra, the delicate melody will reinforce the musicianship of the entire ensemble. (...

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...

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...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

A joyful dispute of the gods' is how Johann Sebastian Bachs librettist Salomon Franck described the Birthday Cantata for the court of Saxony-Weißenfels, now generally known as the 'Hunting Cantata' BW...

Johann Sebastian Bach's librettist Salomon Franck called the congratulatory music for the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, which is generally known today as the "Hunting Cantata" BWV 208, "Frohlockender Göt...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

In this arrangement of the world-famous Toccata in D minor by Johann Sebastian Bach by Professor Torsten Laux, fun and seriousness, exuberant joy of playing and mysterious magic lie close together ......