Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music Downloads

This beautiful arrangement of the Irish folk tune is an excellent piece for developing legate playing and dynamic contrast. Featuring solos for Violin l, Violin ll, Viola and Cello, this very playable...

This beautiful arrangement of the Irish folk tune is an excellent piece for developing legate playing and dynamic contrast. Featuring solos for Violin l, Violin ll, Viola and Cello, this very playable...

This lovely melody has become one of O'Carolan's most popular pieces. In this arrangement the melody is shared by all instruments giving young students the opportunity to play with expression. An opti...

Filled with enchanting melodies and harmonies, O'Carolan's Draught is a lyrical air by Ireland's beloved Baroque-era composer, Turlough O'Carolan, and arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Truly a crossov...

Filled with enchanting melodies and harmonies, O'Carolan's Draught is a lyrical air by Ireland's beloved Baroque-era composer, Turlough O'Carolan, and arranged by Andrew H. Dabczynski. Truly a crossov...

The work is here arranged for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without solo trumpet, in the slightly lower key of C major. The orchestral score and instrumenta...

The coffee cantata "Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht" and the peasant cantata " Mer hahn en neue Oberkeet " - both based on texts by Picander - are among Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known and most fre...

The anthem "How beautiful are the feet", also known as "Anthem on the Peace", was premiered in 1749 by the Chapel Royal in London at a thanksgiving service on the occasion of the Peace of Aachen, whic...

George Frideric Handel's anthem "Blessed are they that considereth the poor" was first performed in 1749 at a benefit concert for the Foundling Hospital orphanage and is known by this name. The vocal...

To celebrate the Peace Treaty of Utrecht, which ended the War of the Spanish Succession in 1713, the "Utrecht Jubilate" was composed in the same year, shortly after Handel had composed the "Te Deum"....

The libretto of Handel's probably shortest opera - the most important setting of the material alongside Mozart's "Lucio Silla" - is based on Plutarch's description of the life of the cruel Roman consu...

Handel's three-act opera "Sosarme, Re di Media" (HWV 30) was first performed in 1732 with the star castrato Senesino in the title role. The plot centers on a family conflict over the succession to the...

Handel composed his first Italian oratorio "La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno" in 1707, based on an allegorical and moralistic libretto by his patron Cardinal Benedetto Pamp...

The fact that the "opéra comique", rooted in the folk art of French vaudeville, was brought to one of its high points in Vienna by Gluck, an Italian composer from the Upper Palatinate, clearly shows t...

Drame lyrique in three acts and a prologue (1779) Libretto: Louis-Théodore Baron de Tschudi (after "Narcissos ed Eco" from Ovid's Metamorfosi) (French) Premiere: September 24, 1779, Paris, Opéra (Pala...

Opéra comique in two acts (1760) Libretto: Louis Anseaume (for Jean-Louis Laruette's opéra comique "L'ivrogne corrigé ou Le mariage du diable" of 1759; adapted by Charles Simon Favart) (French) Premie...

Like many of Pietro Metastasio's libretti, "Ezio" has been set to music time and again - in addition to Handel, also by Nicola Porpora in 1728 and Christoph Willibald Gluck in 1750. As the historical...

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...

Ezio is based on a libretto by Pietro Metastasio, which was first set to music by Nicola Porpora (1728), then - among many others - by Georg Friedrich Händel (1732) and in 1750 by Christoph Willibald...

In 1768, Gluck was asked by Empress Maria Theresa to compose a festive opera in Parma on the occasion of the wedding of her daughter Maria Amalia to Ferdinand of Spain. The composer accepted the commi...

The episode of Armida from Torquato Tasso's epic poem La Gerusalemme liberata (1575) has been one of the most popular opera subjects since the 17th century and has inspired numerous composers, includi...

Of the two main versions of Rameau's stage works such as "Dardanus" (1739, 1744), "Platée" (1745, 1749) and "Zoroastre" (1749, 1756), none fell into oblivion for as long as "Castor et Pollux". First p...