Carus Piano Reductions: The Professional Choice for Vocal Scores

Joseph Martin Kraus, who was born in the same year as Mozart and, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and died far too young, has been receiving more attention again in rece...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

In contrast to Mozart's much shorter masses of the same period, Leopold Mozart described K. 262 as a "Missa longa". Indeed, the length of the individual movements and the final fugues of the Gloria an...

The two Kyrie settings in E flat K. 322 (1778/79) and in C K. 323 (probably not before 1790) are among the works by Mozart that only exist as incomplete draft scores. In both cases, however, Mozart's...

The Mass in C minor K. 427, Mozart's "Great Mass", is a torso - a circumstance that is extremely regrettable, especially in view of the monumentality of this work. Following his sensational reconstruc...

The Vienna Tonkünstlersozietät, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, also requested a choral work from Mozart for its benefit concerts in March 1785. Presumably not onl...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...

In Eisenstadt in 1770/71, Haydn composed his four-movement Salve Regina, which is characterized by the concertante use of the organ. Haydn proves to be a master in the musical realization of the Maria...

Joseph Haydn set the Ambrosian Canticle to music twice in the course of his life. The "Te Deum" for Empress Marie Therese was composed around 1800 and thus falls into his late creative phase. The larg...

The 30 or so mass settings by Johann Michael Haydn are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime. In his sacred music, the composer achieved a synthesis of counterpoin...

Due to its instrumentation alone, the Missa Sancti Hieronymi occupies a special position both among Haydn's mass settings and in the church music repertoire of the Salzburg royal court. The extraordin...

The names given to Michael Haydn's masses are related to the specific commission or the dedicatee of the composition. For example, Haydn composed the "Missa in honorem Sti. Gotthardi", also known as t...

Among Haydn's more than thirty settings of the Latin Ordinary text, his Missa in honorem Sanctae Ursulae, completed on August 5, 1793 according to the autograph, occupies a prominent position. It can...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

The work, previously attributed to Joseph Haydn, is edited here for the first time under the name of his brother Johann Michael and according to the most reliable source from 1765 from the Benedictine...

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...

First critical edition. The oratorio "Judas Maccabaeus" is one of George Frideric Handel's most popular vocal works. It was performed over fifty times during his lifetime and was one of the first of h...

Handel's vesper psalm Nisi Dominus (Psalm 127), which is presented here in a new critical edition, was composed in Rome in 1707 for the feast of the Madonna del Monte Carmel. It is very much in the tr...

Contains Part I of the oratorio Israel in Egypt is also one of Handel's most popular oratorios due to the predominant proportion of choruses and has had a firm place in the concert repertoire of many...

Great occasions call for great music! The "Dettinger Te Deum" is a splendid example of how Handel was able to set the tone for festive occasions in an unrivaled way. Handel expresses the sublime chara...

The genesis of the oratorio is an adventurous one: the nucleus of the three-part work were numbers from the middle section, "Flight into Egypt", which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and subordinat...

Schubert probably composed the Latin "Stabat Mater" D175 without a direct commission between the 4th and 6th of April 1815. According to Pope Benedict XIII's instructions of 1727, it is intended as a...