Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Mixed Choir (SATB) and Continuo

It only became apparent a few years ago that the text of the soprano cantata 'Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht'' came from the collection Gott-geheiligten Sabbaths-Zehnden by the Leipzig theology stud...

The soprano cantata "Falsche Welt, dir trau ich nicht" by Johann Sebastian Bach is intended for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity, which fell on November 24, 1726 in the year of its first performance. It...

Bach's cantata "Gott soll allein mein Herze haben" BWV 169 comes from the third Leipzig cantata cycle; it was first performed on October 20, 1726 on the 18th Sunday after Trinity. Recent research has...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

'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 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...

Entstehungszeit der diesem Werk zugrundeliegenden Trauungskantate (BWV 34a) 1726, der Parodie in der ersten Hälfte der 1740er Jahre.

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

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.

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...

A short, four-part harmonization of the text from EG 275 (Evangelisches Gesangbuch, 7 verses), but with the melody from EG 473 or 474. The soprano and alto parts have been reconstructed by the editor....

The popular motet "Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles" is one of the great mysteries of Bach research. A lot of things don't fit together and the sources - all from the 19th century - are of little help...

Generalbassaussetzung: Paul Horn