Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Soloists, 2 Violins and Continuo

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717 for...

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...

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...

Die „Passio per il Venerdi Santo“, eine Passionsvertonung zum Karfreitag auf den Text des Evangelisten Johannes, von Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716) aus dem Jahr 1702 darf als ein zentrales Werk dieses...

Die „Passio per il Venerdi Santo“, eine Passionsvertonung zum Karfreitag auf den Text des Evangelisten Johannes, von Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716) aus dem Jahr 1702 darf als ein zentrales Werk dieses...

In 1738 Georg Frideric Handel penned 'Il Xerse' which was to be his last as well as his most famous opera. However in truth, Handel’s opera is nothing other than the final chapter in the history of a...

Antonio Vivaldi set Psalm 111 (112) "Beatus vir" three times ("Blessed is the man who fears the Lord"). Of these, two have survived that could hardly be more different: the extensive, double-choir wor...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The M...

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...

> Urtext edition based on 'Georg Philipp Telemann, Musical Works' > Cantata for the first day of Whitsun > Ideal for church services and concerts > An attractive addition to the repertoire with a view...

> Urtext edition based on 'Georg Philipp Telemann, Musical Works' > Cantata for the first day of Whitsun > Ideal for church services and concerts > An attractive addition to the repertoire with a view...

Although 'Warum betrübst du dich, mein Herz' (What is it troubles thee, my heart) BWV 138 is based on the chorale of the same name, it is nevertheless not regarded as one of Bach's chorale cantatas. I...

The cantata 'Mein liebster Jesus ist verloren' BWV 154 was first performed on 9 January 1724, the 1st Sunday after Epiphany. The structure and extent of the work are unusual: it comprises eight, inste...

Following upon 'Alexander's Feast' (1736), in 1739 Handel produced a second setting of the 'Ode to St Cecilia' ('Song for St Cecilia's Day'). At its première it was combined with 'Alexander's Feast'....

> Urtext edition based on the Halle Handel Edition > Includes a singing translation in German > Extensive bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) > Idiomatic uncluttered piano reductionHandel's Agrippina HWV 6...

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...

> First Urtext edition > Includes a Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic, well-presented piano reduction The 'Dettinger Te Deum' was written to celebrate England's victory over the French at the Battle of D...

> First Urtext edition > Includes a Foreword (Eng/Ger) > Idiomatic, well-presented piano reduction The 'Dettinger Te Deum' was written to celebrate England's victory over the French at the Battle of D...

Francesco Cavalli's "Xerse" (Venice 1655) was one of the most successful operas of the 17th century. Among its numerous revivals, the one for the Parisian court on the occasion of the wedding celebrat...

Mit diesem Frühwerk, das Hasse als Schüler Alessandro Scarlattis noch ganz unter dessen Einfluss komponierte und das im September 1725 auf dem Landsitz des königlichen Rates Carlo Carmignano aufgeführ...

Venetian version The Laudate pueri was composed between 1735 and 1749 for the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice. As this was a musical training center for talented girls and young women, the vocal pa...

Im Jahr 1729 übernahm Bach in Leipzig die Leitung des einst von Telemann gegründeten 'Collegium musicum' und konzertierte daraufhin mindestens einmal wöchentlich mit diesem Ensemble im Zimmermannschen...