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In contrast to the earlier smaller sacred works, whose style is partly borrowed from the Baroque and Classical periods, Schubert has forged his personal, Romantic-influenced sacred style in this opus....

With a performance duration of around 10 minutes, Schubert's Magnificat D 486 in C major is one of the more concentrated settings of the well-known Marian canticum text, which originally belonged to t...

Johann Michael Haydn's masses are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime, as the large number of copies shows. This also applies to the Missa Sancti Dominici, which...

The Gabrielsmesse, which was very popular in Michael Haydn's time, exists in two versions: the first and original version contains a very short Gloria and Credo. In the second version, the two mass mo...

Set for SATB choir and with additional wind parts by Joseph von Eybler, addition of trombones by Ignaz Xaver Ritter von Seyfried, revised by Otto Nicolai (1843) Pergolesi's last major composition, the...

First version in c! / Bach reworked the cantata "Ich habe genung" several times for different instrumentations. There is a version in c for bass solo (BWV3 82.1) or mezzo-soprano solo (BWV3 82.3). The...

Bach composed the cantata Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust for alto solo for the 6th Sunday after Trinity in 1728. It comes from his third Leipzig cantata cycle, in which he sought new expressive po...

Telemann's unusually small Kyrie Gloria Mass is a work from his Leipzig period (1701-1705). In seven movements, the young composer knows how to draw a rich palette of forms and affects from the voice...

What does the early Bruckner sound like? The Magnificat in B flat major sheds an unexpected light on the young composer on the threshold of his great church works. The approximately 5-minute work in t...

The best-known requiem mass before Mozart's unfinished Requiem was written by the opera composer Niccolò Jommelli, who was celebrated in his day. The Missa pro defunctis was composed in 1756 during hi...

The impressive collection Selva morale et spirituale, first published in 1641, is a milestone in Monteverdi's oeuvre and reflects his almost 30 years of activity as a church musician in Venice. As in...

Entstehungszeit der diesem Werk zugrundeliegenden Trauungskantate (BWV 34a) 1726, der Parodie in der ersten Hälfte der 1740er Jahre.

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...

Bach's well-known church cantata "Schwingt freudig euch empor" BWV 36, which was first heard in its final version on 1 Advent 1731 in Leipzig's Nikolaikirche, goes back to a secular birthday cantata f...

It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata 'Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht'' came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology stud...

The cantata Widerstehe doch der Sünde BWV 54 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most popular solo cantatas today. The short text, comprising just three movements, comes from a collection of cantata tex...

The Reformation cantata Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80b, published by Carus-Verlag for the first time in a practical performing edition, remained unknown to Bach scholars until well into the 20t...

For this choral cantata, Bach took the 1st, 4th and 7th verses of the chorale of the same name by Georg Neumark. The other verses, however, were mixed with free adaptations.

This six-movement chorale cantata was first performed on 26 December 1724. The text is based on the Lutheran translation of the early Christian hymn A solis ortus cardinem. The outer movements frame t...

It seems reasonable to link the creation of the work to a penitential service held in St. Mary's Church in Mühlhausen to commemorate the devastating fire that ravaged large parts of the town on May 29...

The cantata "Erforsche mich Gott und erfahre mein Herz" BWV 136 was composed during Bach's first year in office as Thomaskantor in Leipzig and was premiered on the 8th Sunday after Trinity, July 18, 1...

Bach's chorale cantata with its opening text 'Wohl dem, der sich auf seinen Gott recht kindlich kann verlassen' (Tis well with him who on the Lord trusts just like a child) BWV 139 was performed for t...

For his cantata BWV 152, Bach chose an unusually chamber-musical instrumentation that still has a very colorful and lively effect today: The two solo singing voices are accompanied by recorder, oboe,...