Breitkopf & Hartel Urtext

Location of the action: Bohemia, shortly after the end of the Thirty Years War Duration: full-length Persons: OTTOKAR, Bohemian prince (T) – CUNO, princely hereditary forester (B) – AGATHE, his daught...

The composition of Johannes Brahms' "13 Canons op. 113" cannot be precisely dated. However, it can be assumed that the individual canons were composed between 1859 and 1863 and on various occasions. V...

Die 'Drei Gesänge' op. 42 sind eigentlich a cappella-Chorwerke. Das Klavier dient in erster Linie als Einstudierungshilfe. Ulrich Mahlerts Vorwort gibt Hinweise zur Entstehungsgeschichte und zum geist...

Zwischen 1834 und 1847 komponierte Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy insgesamt 28 Lieder für gemischte Stimmen, also für je zwei Frauen- (Sopran und Alt) und zwei Männerstimmen (Tenor und Bass). Die Stücke...

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi erhielt Ende 1734 in Neapel den Auftrag einer adeligen Bruderschaft, den "Stabat mater"-Text neu zu vertonen, um die Komposition des 1725 verstorbenen Alessandro Scarlatti...

Die 'Vesperae de Dominica' entstand in Salzburg in demselben Jahr 1779 wie die 'Krönungsmesse'. Mozart selbst schätzte dieses Werk hoch ein. Wir bieten Probeseiten der Chorpartitur zum Download an. Kl...

Urtext based on the new Complete Edition edited by Jeremiah W. McGrann [solos,mix ch,orch]

The cantata Schmücket das Fest mit Maien has survived without any information about the time of its composition, its purpose, or its scoring. The librettist is also unknown, although there is a compar...

This cantata is a composition by Kuhnau for the first of the Christmas holidays [Christmas Day] and one of his most extensive works. It is underlaid with the free poetry of a hitherto anonymous author...

Soli,GCh,Orch 45' - Soli: SATB - Chor: SATB - 1.2.2.2. - 2.2.3.0. - Pk - Org - Str

Klavierauszug von Alfred Dürr

The German Requiem is one of the world's most famous requiems, even though it does not set the customary requiem text to music. Brahms did not want to follow the Latin Catholic funeral mass, addressin...

Orchestral material according to the new Beethoven Complete Edition by G. Henle Verlag. All conducting scores and orchestral parts, as well as the piano reductions and choral scores for the choral wor...

Soli,GCh,Orch 20'

Diethard Hellmann based his careful reconstruction on stylistic comparisons with other Bach scores.

I had just grown particularly fond of the piece, although it is hardly something for the so-called audience; but I loved it ... Mendelssohn wrote about his setting of the 114th Psalm.

Urtext nach der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe [Soli,GCh,Orch] 160' Soli: SSAATTBBB - Chor: SSAATTBB - 2.2.2.2. - 4.2.3.0.Oph - Pk - Org - Str If in the jubilee year 2009 Mendelssohn's 'Elijah' i...

150 years of edition history had to pass before the Mass in B minor finally appeared in a musical text that, as far as possible, really goes back to Johann Sebastian Bach's 'Fassung letzter Hand'.

Striving for the highest of art - with these words Franz Schubert had announced his Mass in A flat major in 1828. .

The German Requiem is one of the world's most famous requiems, even though it does not set the customary requiem text to music. Brahms did not want to follow the Latin Catholic funeral mass, addressin...