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The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...

Psalm 150 from 1884 is a composition from César Franck's creative maturity. The characteristic features of his style appear in a small space: the emphatically symphonic language, the bold, unmistakabl...

With the last two Missae breves, the "Missa Sancti Nicolai" and the "Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo", Haydn created masterpieces that were already among the most popular in this genre during his lifetime...

Ensembles for whom Schubert's "great" masses are not accessible will find a pleasant alternative in this compact and smaller scored mass from 1816. In terms of its external dimensions, it is a Missa b...

George Frideric Handel is regarded as the first and most important English representative of the oratorio genre. The Messiah in particular is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and is also one of...

Soli SSATB, Coro SSATB, 2 Vl, 2 Va, Bc

Herr, wende dich und sei mir gnädig is a deeply moving sacred work characterized by its heartfelt musicality and profound emotional depth. This full score from the renowned Carus-Verlag provides ensem...

Solo S, 3 Vl, Bc

Experience a sonorous masterpiece of sacred vocal music with "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ," published by the renowned Carus-Verlag. This moving work captivates with its warm, profound atmosphe...

Antonio Vivaldi’s monumental setting of Psalm 110, the “Dixit Dominus” RV 594, stands as one of the most magnificent highlights of Venetian Baroque music. Conceived for splendid polychoral forces, the...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

The "Petite Messe solennelle" from 1863 is Rossini's second extensive sacred composition alongside the "Stabat Mater". The mass is an occasional work, written for the inauguration of the private chape...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

Scored for SATB choir with additional wind parts by Joseph von Eybler; trombone parts added by Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried; revised by Otto Nicolai (1843). / Pergolesi’s last major composition, th...

With his large-scale setting of Psalm 22, Christoph JK Müller has created a captivating choral work. He translates the vivid imagery of the biblical text into modern, stirring sounds: the result is a...

With his large-scale setting of Psalm 22, Christoph JK Müller has created a captivating choral work. He translates the vivid imagery of the biblical text into modern, stirring sounds: the result is a...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber’s Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive musical settings of the Mass for the Dead from the 17th century. The specific occasion for the c...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

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...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio has been published as a scholarly edition for practical use as part of the Stuttgart Bach Editions. The edition is based on Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The...

Psalm settings inspired Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy throughout his entire creative life. With Psalm 95 MWV A 16 ("Kommt, laßt uns anbeten"), he composed one of his most impressive and magnificent orch...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...