Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Choir

In the almost six months from 14 August 1736 to 27 January 1737, George Frideric Handel had achieved unprecedented productivity in his operatic oeuvre with the composition of three operas. In addition...

Volume 14 of Series III (Church Music) of the Halle Handel Edition contains two anthems which Handel composed in 1749 and which are his last contributions to the genre of the English anthem. He perfor...

'Pigmalion' was the first example of a one-act ballet, preceded by an overture, composed specifically for the Académie royale de musique. With this work, Rameau turned to the form of the petit opéra....

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

“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...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

When it comes to paying tribute to Heinrich Schütz's compositional achievement, in his art his treatment of the text and language must be mentioned first. The 'Geistliche Chor-Music 1648', a collectio...

The composition by the Viennese Baroque master, which appears here in its first edition, combines southern freshness and elegance with intimate expression. The deeply felt invocation, which can also b...

The present work also shows why the Mozart family, who were close friends with the composer, appreciated Eberlin's works so much: mastery of compositional technique is happily combined here with south...

The musicologist Malcolm Bruno created a new reconstruction of the work on the basis of the funeral ode BWV 198, which has since been established as a parody model. Welcome Comeback Bach's St. John an...

> First Urtext edition based on Georg Philipp Telemann Musical Works > An attractive addition to the repertoire with a view to the Telemann Year 2017 > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) > Uncluttered idiom...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote several settings of the "Gloria". RV 589 is the most familiar and popular piece of sacred music by Vivaldi. The "Gloria RV 589" remained in a relatively unknown statu...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote several settings of the "Gloria". RV 589 is the most familiar and popular piece of sacred music by Vivaldi. The "Gloria RV 589" remained in a relatively unknown statu...

Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed,' wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C. Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on...

It seems reasonable to link the creation of the work to a penitential service held in St. Mary's Church in Mühlhausen to commemorate the devastating fire that ravaged large parts of the town on May 29...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

'King Arthur' is a semi-opera in five acts with music by Henry Purcell and a libretto by John Dryden. The plot is based on the battles between King Arthur's Britons and the Saxons, rather than the leg...

Ye Tuneful Muses, Raise Your Heads is a work by Henry Purcell for SSCtTB Soli, SSATB Chorus, Treble Recorders, Continuo and Strings.

Ye Tuneful Muses, Raise Your Heads is a work by Henry Purcell for SSCtTB Soli, SSATB Chorus, Treble Recorders, Continuo and Strings. This work is taken from the Purcell Society Edition Volume 18: Roya...