Cantata Sheet Music Downloads

Like all cantatas for St. Michael's Day, the choral cantata "Herr Gott, dich loben alle wir" BWV 130 from 1724 is an exceptionally magnificent composition. The three trumpets and timpani are not only...

The cantata "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir" is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions. It was composed in Mühlhausen in 1707 and does not yet have the elaborate arias and choral movements o...

Bach composed BWV 153 as the fourth cantata in the second Leipzig cantata cycle, the so-called "choral cantata cycle". The hymn "Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder", written in the 16th century to the melody...

The three-verse hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" was written by Philipp Nicolai and first appears in his "Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens". The poet of the other text sections of the cantata is...

New edition of the New Year's cantata, previously only published from 19th century copies, based on a manuscript from 1762 which only became known in 1971; with a considerably different and improved t...

A motetic choral movement without obbligato instruments opens the cantata Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin zum Sonntag Septuagesima 1724. This is followed by an almost dance-like, song-like aria "Murr...

The sources show that Bach's cantata was intended for the Sunday of Jubilate. The text, whose composer is still unknown today, is based on the juxtaposition of sadness and joy in the Gospel for this S...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually by add...

The cantata Bring Glory to the Lord in His Name BWV 148 was probably composed for the 17th Sunday after Trinity in 1723; due to the scanty tradition, which only began after Bach's death, the cantata c...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's masterful cantata for Trinity Sunday: "Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding" BWV 176. This expressive work captivates with its gripping opening chorus and profound re...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed...

Dieterich Buxtehude (1637-1707) was a Danish-German organist and composer of the Baroque period. His organ works represent a central part of the standard organ repertoire and are frequently performed...

Johann Sebastian Bach's choral cantata "Meine Seel erhebt den Herren" BWV 10 was composed for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (July 2) in 1724. Thematically, it is based on Mary's song of praise (...

Experience a timeless treasure of sacred vocal music with the song cantata "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" from the renowned collection "Musae Sioniae". This artfully crafted edition from the presti...

Date of composition of the wedding cantata on which this work is based (BWV 34a) 1726, the parody in the first half of the 1740s

The alto cantata 'Geist und Seele wird verwirret' has seven movements; in the opening movements of the two parts of the cantata, a lost concerto by Bach survives in its original form, which he had arr...

Experienced organists in particular will enjoy this Bach cantata: A concerto by Bach, which has been lost in its original form and which he arranged for organ, is concealed in the opening movements of...