Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Choir

The Missa Omnium Sanctorum ZWV 21 is Zelenka's last mass setting. It contains three extended arias (one each for soprano, alto and tenor), concertante choruses and unusually expressive choral fugues....

Handel composed the 'Te Deum' in B-flat major HWV 281 in 1718 for the future Duke of Chandos, hence its nickname 'Chandos Te Deum'. Here it is called 'Te Deum for Cannons' after the Duke's stately hom...

In Georg Philipp Telemann’s opera “Orpheus”, the focus is not on Eurydice, but on Queen Orasia, who is inflamed with mad but unrequited love for the legendary singer. The first documented performance...

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...

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Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

The opera “Dido and Aeneas”, a recount of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as a favourite with the public. This is due to the skill of composer Henry Purcel...

Les Boréades was actually intended to be performed at the Théâtre de Choisy in Paris in 1763 at the end of the Seven Years' War to celebrate the conclusion of peace. However, after two rehearsals with...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

It tells the love story between Fatima, who is 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...

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 St. Matthew Passion of 1758 exemplifies various aspects of Georg Philipp Telemann's late Passion work: his changing recitative style in the 1750s, the sometimes considerable shortening of the Gosp...

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...

Hosanna to the Son of David opens Telemann's cantata cycle "Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn" as a cantata for the 1st Advent. The year is based on poems by the Hamburg Jacobi chief p...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

The 30 or so mass settings by Johann Michael Haydn are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime. In his sacred music, the composer achieved a synthesis of counterpoin...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Released to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the work’s premiere, the choral score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 provides choral singers with a lightweight and practical edition that con...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...