Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Orchestra

After Hippolyte et Aricie and Castor et Pollux, Dardanus is Rameau's third tragédie lyrique for Paris. With its multifaceted music, it is an absolute highlight of this genre. Its reception is very spe...

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...

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 is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed f...

It is almost impossible to tell from listening to them that Bach's extremely popular concerti for harpsichord were probably his own transcriptions of solo concerti which had originally been composed f...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s harpsichord concertos, which are hugely popular today, once offered the composer a real field for experimentation. Bach often used pre-existing material. Thus, there is much to...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

It would be hard to imagine today’s concert repertoire without the harpsichord concertos of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is not known whether the A-major Concerto BWV 1055, like some of the other harpsic...

Bach's harpsichord concertos have proven extremely popular, though several were originally written as concertos for another solo instrument - either violin or a woodwind instrument. But we know nothin...

Imeneo was performed for the first time on November 22, 1740 at the theater in Lincoln's Inn Field in London; a second performance took place on December 13, 1740. In contrast to the variety of events...

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...

Vedro con mio diletto (Il Giustino,Rome - Carnaval 1724) Orchestre et chant, matériel d'orchestre. Cette émouvante sarabande, qui partage son thème avec le mouvement lent du concerto pour violon RV 38...

From the beginning of 1703 throughout the whole duration of his residency in Rome (prolonged until the end of 1708, with the exception of the Venetian visit), the composition of oratorios was one of t...

Johann Sebastian Bachs Magnificat BWV 243 ist eine opulente Festmusik, die in vielerlei Hinsicht eine Besonderheit in seinem Œuvre darstellt. Die erste Fassung (Es-dur, BWV 243.1) erfährt ihre Urauffü...

SILETE VENTI, HWV 242 (BE SILENT, WINDS) is a Latin motet by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) The uncertain date of its composition has provoked much debate, although careful study of the work sugge...

Based on the Urtext of the "Halle Handel Edition" Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) Includes the version of the premiere as well as two further performable versions Practical, easy-to-play piano reduction...

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...