Cantata Sheet Music Downloads

In the cantata "Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht", Bach has created a high degree of expressiveness with minimal vocal means (solo tenor, only the final chorale in four voices). The last three movem...

Experience the festive magic of the holiday season with "Carols (Orchestra) – A Cantata for Congregation and Choir," published by Brookfield Press. This moving work unites choir, ensemble, and the ent...

Experience a moving musical centerpiece for the holiday season with "The Other Wise Man – A Christmas Cantata". Published by the renowned Hal Leonard, this impressive Christmas cantata tells a heartwa...

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U120) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

If you’re looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work that offers rewarding parts for your choir, Rheinberger’s "Star of Bethlehem" is the perfect choice. The Christmas narrative is lyrically set to m...

*La Buona Morte* is a cantata by Juraj Filas based on sonnets by Francesco Petrarca. The title—"The Good Death"—captures the essence of the work: At the end of his life, the poet looks back on his was...

Mendelssohn described the work, composed in 1840, to his friend Klingemann: "a symphony for choir and orchestra ... First 3 symphonic movements, followed by 12 choral and solo movements; the words fro...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U140) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. The 'Gra...

The opening Chorus from Bach's Cantata № 10: "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren". This arrangement requires four bassoons and either a soprano/mezzo, or a choir singing in unison (upper voices only). In 1...

This new edition of 'Compositions' includes the complete piano accompaniments and supersedes the old Useful Music edition (U128) that previously provided the piano accompaniments only on CD. Free bac...

Bach's cantata "Es ist dir gesagt, Mensch, was gut ist" BWV 45 belongs to a group of cantatas from 1726, for the texts of which Bach drew on a cantata composed for Meiningen a good 20 years earlier. T...

November 22 should be a holiday for every true music lover. Then it is St. Cecilia's Day, the day of the patron saint of music and musicians. This day was highly regarded in the Anglo-Saxon countries....

November 22 should be a holiday for every true music lover. Then it is St. Cecilia's Day, the day of the patron saint of music and musicians. This day was highly regarded in the Anglo-Saxon countries....

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...

Bach's cantata "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid" BWV 58 for the Sunday after New Year, entitled "Dialogus", is accordingly limited entirely to the dialog pair of soprano and bass; no other soloists or...

Johann Sebastian Bach's solo cantata "Ich habe genung" BWV 82 (BWV3 82.1, 82.3) for the Feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary is one of the most moving and intimate masterpieces of Baroque voca...

The Peasant Cantata BWV 212 is truly unique in Bach's cantata oeuvre, both in terms of content and music. Although it is one of Bach's homage cantatas, the text is only indirectly about the praise of...