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Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

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...

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...

The cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity. 'Ah! I see now, as I to the wedding bidden', BWV 162 was first performed on 25 October 1716 in the Castle church at Weimar. During the first year in his...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

In einer Mischung aus Kantate und Konzertstück vertont Beethoven in der Chorfantasie eine Hymne auf die Kunst. Das etwa zwanzigminütige Werk wird oft als Vorläufer der 'Ode an die Freude' der 9. Symph...

The soft light of the early morning, the song of the cicadas and the beguiling scent of thyme: "Matinée de Provence" describes a morning in Provence, from the first rays of sunshine to the oppressive...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

If you’re looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work with rewarding parts for your choir, Rheinberger’s "Star of Bethlehem" is the perfect choice. The Christmas story is lyrically set to music in nin...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

A Christmas composition by John Høybye and Edward Broadbridge that bears the familiar style of the writing duo: jazzy, rhythmic, with scat syllables—and with a thematic approach that goes beyond the c...

Edward Elgar’s "Spanish Serenade: Stars of the Summer Night" from 1892, for mixed choir and orchestra, paints an enchanting picture of a summer night in Spain. The text is taken from a play by Henry L...

It is one of the most frequently performed operas worldwide: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s *The Magic Flute* was composed in 1791 for Emanuel Schikaneder’s Freihaustheater in Vienna and combines fairy-tal...

The work is based on Ulrich Plenzdorf’s novel *Paul and Paula, or The Legend of Endless Happiness*, one of the most beautiful love stories of the 1970s, which gained widespread recognition—especially...

With its detailed scene directions and many short forms such as accompagnato recitatives and ariosi, "Belshazzar" is the most dramatic of George Frideric Handel's oratorios. In fact, it is even a sacr...

From a music-historical point of view, Anton Diabelli belongs to a middle group of Biedermeier composers who can be assigned neither to the Classical nor to the Romantic period. Although Diabelli want...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri, whose "Misatango" is known and loved by many choirs, sets the 127th psalm "Nisi Dominus" to music for solo soprano and mixed cho...

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

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...

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...

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...