Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Choir

'Gott ist unsre Zuversicht' BWV 197 was probably written in the second half of the 1730s for a wedding, no further details of which are known. In the opening chorus in particular, it features quite a...

Gott ist unsre Zuversicht BWV 197 was probably composed in the second half of the 1730s for an unknown wedding ceremony and features an impressive orchestra, especially in the opening chorus. The text...

Experience festive splendor and Baroque passion with Johann Sebastian Bach's Pentecost cantata "O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe" (O light everlasting, O love divine) BWV 34. This stirring work wa...

Date of composition of the wedding cantata on which this work is based (BWV 34a) 1726, the parody in the first half of the 1740s

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat BWV 243 was composed in its first form in E flat, right at the beginning of Bach’s period in Leipzig, possibly for the Visitation of Mary on July 2, 1723. Its perfor...

Johann Sebastian Bach's "Magnificat" BWV 243 was composed in its first form in E flat at the very beginning of Bach's Leipzig tenure, possibly for the Visitation of Mary on July 2, 1723. A performance...

The festive composition with its large orchestration for the time was performed for the first time on June 29, 1751 on the occasion of the consecration of the new Catholic Court Church in Dresden.

The cantata O heilige Zeit [O Holy Time] of the former St. Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau is the ideal baroque festive music for small scorings. Even though this is the larger of two cantatas with this t...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

Music for the ages: the coronation anthems Zadok the priest, Let thy hand be strengthened, The King shall rejoice and My heart is inditing, which Handel composed for the coronation of George II in 172...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

The psalm setting "Credidi, propter quod locutus sum" RV 605 is a curiosity among Antonio Vivaldi’s sacred vocal works, as it is an arrangement of an arrangement. The basis for this contrafactum was t...

Bach chose an unconventional beginning for his nine-movement cantata 'Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind' BWV 153, which he composed in his first year as Kantor of St. Thomas's for the Sunday after N...

The Gloria in D major RV 589 is Vivaldi's most famous sacred work and it is among his most important church music compositions. The Carus edition, the publisher's inaugural music edition, helped consi...

Das Gloria in D RV 589 ist das bekannteste geistliche Werk Vivaldis und gehört zu seinen bedeutendsten kirchenmusikalischen Kompositionen. Es ist als selbstständiger Einzelsatz vermutlich zwischen 171...

None other than Johann Sebastian Bach arranged Giovanni Battista Pergolesi’s well-known Stabat mater for performances at Leipzig’s Thomaskirche. Bach replaced the old liturgical sequence of the origin...

Three of the most famous choruses from Handel's 'Messiah' are combined and arranged for choirs without tenors. It is so important for small church choirs and school choirs to have the experience of si...

This, the first of Handel's four Coronation Anthems, has been a cherished part of crowning British royalty from George II in 1727 to the current sovereign, Charles III. Commemorate the grand occasion...