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The "Missa pastoralis in C", presented here for the first time, was composed around 1808. It is part of a cycle of sacred chants called "Cursus sacro-harmonicus", which Ryba created as an ordinarium a...

Born in the same year as Mozart, Joseph Martin Kraus, who, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and also died far too young, has received more attention again in recent years...

The Stabat Mater, composed in 1767, was Joseph Haydn's first sacred work, which he composed after taking up his post with Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Like hardly any other of his sacred works, it...

With the Missa Sancti Amandi, composed in 1776, Haydn created a festive mass "in pieno", i.e. scored for choir and orchestra without vocal soloists. Although very densely scored, this work is characte...

The fourth (or first) of the eleven Cannons Anthems with the text O sing unto the Lord, HWV 249b has a small instrumentation in comparison to the other anthems composed in Cannons. This practical edit...

Handel's Jubilate HWV 279 from Utrecht thrilled London audiences at its very first performance and continues to do so today in concert halls and churches around the world, partly due to its wide range...

With timpani and trumpets à la Marseillaise, a French piece of music conquered the public consciousness again in 1953 ("Eurovision anthem") and a composer was rediscovered: Marc-Antoine Charpentier's...

Anton Bruckner composed the first of his three orchestral masses, the Mass in D minor, in just four months in 1864. Nevertheless, it was not completed for Emperor Franz Joseph I's birthday as planned,...

Weber's "Missa sancta No. 1" in E flat major is also known as the "Freischütz Mass", as he composed it in 1818 while working on the opera of the same name. The mass already enjoyed great popularity am...

The Te Deum from 1832, a large-scale festive work, impresses with its rapid changes of expression and warm orchestral colors. The 15-movement composition combines sonorous, sometimes eight-part choral...

We know that the famous opera composers of the Italian bel canto also composed great sacred music, not least thanks to Verdi's Requiem or Puccini's Messa di Gloria, but most of these works still recei...

Turning one's energy to sacred music remains the artist's highest goal, wrote Robert Schumann in January 1851 - even though he had hardly appeared as a composer of sacred music up to that point. In fa...

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

The cantata 'Ich liebe den Höchsten von ganzem Gemüte' (I love the Almighty with all of my spirit) BWV 174 was composed for Whit Monday 1729. It probably belongs to Bach's fourth cycle of cantatas, kn...

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Bach's Mass in B minor is one of his largest and most ambitious works. It occupied the composer for over two decades: from the Sanctus (1724) to the "Missa" of 1733 and the supplementary Ordinary move...

Franz Schubert's "Mass in A flat": a work that occupied the composer time and again, with which - in his words - he strove for the "highest in art" - and perhaps only wanted to achieve a position at t...

The first of Beethoven's two Mass settings is decidedly modern and forward-looking in its subjective, confessional tonal language. It opens up completely new worlds of expression for the liturgical te...

The Missa in c KV 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is a fascinating work. To speak of "the" mass alone is inaccurate, as it is basically nothing more than a musical torso, full of riddles and problems -...

After his early departure from the opera stage in 1829, Gioachino Rossini only composed larger-scale sacred music in addition to chamber music. This included the "Stabat Mater", which was composed in...

Commissioned by Europa Cantat for the festival Jugend in Bewegung, Bonn 2010

This is how the Parzen, the goddesses of fate in Greek and Roman mythology, sang: the Parzenlied in Goethe's verse drama "Iphigenia in Tauris", which became the model for Johannes Brahms, is about cur...

The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, have remained relatively unknown to this day. And yet these mot...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

One of the most important mass compositions of the pre-classical period and also one of the earliest examples of the "Mannheim" symphonic church style. First edition of the work.