Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Orchestra

Bruckner’s mighty Mass in F minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music....

The Hochzeitskantate (Wedding Cantata) BWV 195 was performed by Bach from around 1730 at various wedding celebrations in different forms, and was evidently also lent out for performances further afiel...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Bach's Christmas Oratorio has been published as a scholarly edition for practical use as part of the Stuttgart Bach Editions. The edition is based on Bach's autograph score and the original parts. The...

Kuhnau’s setting of the 98th psalm Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied is a sonorous cantata with the opulent scoring of two trumpets, timpani and a five-part string section. This baroque gem radiates a s...

Handel set the myth of the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid's Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" HWV 72 (1708), the masque "Aci...

“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...

“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...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library attest. However, the copies he made for performances...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

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...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...