Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

This is a unique arrangement for oboe and piano, a work that preserves the beauty of the original work, an master piece for sacred music, but at the same time different in essence due to the creative...

Introduce your full orchestra to the baroque style and sound with this exciting new arrangement of Handel's masterpiece. The composer's original rhythms, melodies and counterpoint are all so playable...

In the early 1700s, London high society delighted in evening pleasure trips on the River Thames. These leisurely trips were often accompanied by a floating orchestra-a whole barge-load of musicians pl...

A wonderful patchwork quilt of Handel's well-known melodies that concludes with an excerpt from the famous 'Hallelujah' chorus! The beautiful 'Largo' from Xerxes, Handel's famous carol 'Joy to the Wor...

Combined with an introductory theme from the suite, the overture is among the most majestic Baroque music ever written. Perfectly set as a first full orchestra experience, the contrasting statements o...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Rameau's only extant opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has come down to us in two versions (1745 and 1746), that of 1745 having long been regarded as lost. Volume IV.12 of the 'Opera omnia Rameau'...

The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau's 'ballet héroïque' Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance, on 23 August 1735, it consis...

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...

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...

“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...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauffü...

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...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets in Bb Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola or Violin 3, Cello/Bass) Absolute minimum forces required for the performance of this arrangement are 2 flutes, oboe...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

The Prince of Denmark's March was composed around 1700 by Jeremiah Clarke (c. 1674-1707) , an English Baroque composer and organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and it became one of the most enduring cere...