Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music Downloads

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...

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...

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...

It tells the love story between Fatime, accused of murdering her father, and the king's son Ramire, who is in love with her and frees her from the captivity of his father Alphonse, the King of Castile...

The digital sheet music to Thomas Adès's four Purcell arrangements, Four Songs, for medium voice and piano. The collection is comprised of two of Purcell’s Tempest songs ‘Come Unto these Yellow Sands’...

The aria "Er Weidet Seine Herde" is part of the famous oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741. The work sensitively conveys the image of a shepherd tending his flock, a symbol of...

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 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...

The three great motets Quam dilecta, In convertendo and Deus noster refugium, which Jean-Philippe Rameau composed between 1713 and 1715, are still relatively unknown today. The reason for this can be...

Giacomo Carissimi, the first grand master of the oratorio and author of numerous concertante motets and Italian bel canto solo cantatas, also composed several masses. The Missa concertata in C for 2 t...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

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...