Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Orchestra

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...

> Urtext edition based on the 'Halle Handel Edition' > With a singable translation in German > Adapted in keeping with the revised score > Comprehensive bilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic piano...

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...

Richer than ever - Rameau's 'Zoroastre' in the version of 1756 Rameau's revised version of his opera 'Zoroastre', which could be heard and seen between 20 January 1756 and 26 March 1757 at the Académi...

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...

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 Urauff...

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...

Le Tambourin, an excerpt from the opera-ballet "Les Fêtes d'Hébé", is one of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s best-known works and is presented here in an arrangement by Thierry Caens. Composed in the 18th cent...

Le Tambourin, an excerpt from the opera-ballet "Les Fêtes d'Hébé", is one of Jean-Philippe Rameau’s best-known works and is presented here in an arrangement by Thierry Caens. Composed in the 18th cent...

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...

The episode from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses' in which Daphne attempts to escape Apollo's advances by turning into a laurel tree, causing the devastated god to weave a laurel crown in memory of the nymph, h...

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...

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...

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...