Cantata Sheet Music Downloads

As part of his third Leipzig cantata cycle, Bach performed the Ascension cantata "Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen" on May 30, 1726. Its text is included in the collection "Sonn- und Fest-Tags-Andachten ü...

The cantata BWV 44 from Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle, the earlier of two compositions of the same name, was probably first performed on Sunday Exaudi in May 1724. The text deals with the themes...

The opening chorus of the cantata "Schauet doch und sehet" BWV 46 is one of those movements by Bach that is primarily known in its later guise: its first part became the "Qui tollis" of the Mass in B...

The cantata "Wer sich selbst erhöhet, der soll erniedriget werden" BWV 47 for the 17th Sunday after Trinity belongs to a whole series of cantatas with obbligato organ, most of which were composed in t...

The cantata for the 19th Sunday after Trinity belongs to Bach's first Leipzig cantata cycle and was performed for the first time on October 3, 1723. The text by an unknown poet is based on the Sunday...

Kantate zum Michaelistag - Solo SATB, Coro SATB, Fl, 3 Ob, 2 Vl, Va, 3 Tr, Timp, Bc

The cantata Ich freue mich in dir was performed for the first time in Bach's second year in office, on Christmas Day 1724, and is part of the so-called choral cantata cycle. At the heart of the compos...

Version in A major (version in G major under Carus 31.182/50). The cantata Himmelskönig, sei willkommen (BWV 182) occupies a special place in Johann Sebastian Bach's life story. Active as an organist...

The cantata "Auf, auf, ihr Herzen, seid bereit" for the fourth Sunday in Advent was certainly composed during Homilius' time as Dresden Kreuzkantor between 1755 and 1785, but cannot be dated more prec...

2014 not only marks the 300th birthday of Gottfried August Homilius, but also the 475th anniversary of the introduction of the Reformation in Homilius' native Saxony. To mark both celebrations togethe...

Die kurze Cantate „Lobt den Namen des Herrn“ für Soli, Chor und Orgel stammt aus Rheinbergers Studienzeit am Konservatorium für Musik in München und wurde am 24.12.1853 dort uraufgeführt. Der Text ist...

The new critical Carus edition is the first edition ever to be based on the two autographs that Mozart made separately for movements 1-6 and 7-8. The fact that the edition contains two additional orig...

The "Camino de Santiago", the Way of St. James, is the name given to the various pilgrimage routes to the presumed burial place of the Apostle James the Elder in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The pil...

Buxtehude's numerous vocal compositions written for the performance in Lübeck's Marienkirche are stylistically very different. The cantata "So hat Gott die Welt geliebet" is a concerto for solo sopran...

Strangely enough, the cantata has survived with two texts. Of these, the second is certainly a parody, but possibly also the first. While the first text is clearly intended for Easter, the second has...

Gemischter Chor-SATB, Streicher, Basso continuo - Partitur; Stimmensatz