Classical Music (Baroque) Sheet Music for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed his CANTATA NN. 29: WIR DANKEN DIR, GOTT, WIR DANKEN DIR (WE THANK YOU, GOD, WE THANK YOU), BWV 29 for the installation of the new Leipzig town council in 17...

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....

In Georg Philipp Telemann's Orpheus opera, the focus is not on Eurydice but on Queen Orasia, who is in mad but unrequited love with the legendary singer. The first documented performance of the work t...

Originally conceived as a prologue for the ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", the one-act play "La Naissance d'Osiris" was only performed twice, together with revivals of "Pigmalion" and "Les Incas...

Originally conceived as a prologue for the ballet "Les Beaux Jours de l'Amour", the one-act play "La Naissance d'Osiris" was only performed twice, together with revivals of "Pigmalion" and "Les Incas...

In the autograph, the 'little Cecilia Ode', composed in September 1739, is superscribed with 'Song'; the title used in contemporary sources, such as the textual source by John Dryden, and taken over b...

“Les Boréades", edited by Sylvie Bouissou, the project leader of the Rameau Complete Edition and a central figure in international Rameau research, is a milestone – at last this exceptional work is ac...

The opera "Dido and Aeneas", a retelling of the well-known story from Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid, has established itself as an audience favorite. It owes this to the skill of its composer Henry Purcel...

Agostino Steffani's “Henrico Leone” is a work that stands out in the history of opera at the end of the 17th century due to the confluence of very different factors. The world premiere marked the inau...

Actually, "Les Boréades" was supposed to be performed in 1763 at the Théâtre de Choisy in Paris after the end of the Seven Years' War on the occasion of the celebrations of the peace treaty. But after...

Nach 'Hippolyte et Aricie' und 'Castor et Pollux' ist 'Dardanus' Rameaus dritte Tragédie lyrique für Paris. Mit ihrer vielgestaltigen Musik ist sie ein absoluter Höhepunkt dieser Gattung. Die Handlung...

BA 5103-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged. > The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font. > The pagination has been adopted from t...

Continuo-Aussetzung: Andreas Köhs

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Die Kantate Es steh Gott auf ist für das Osterfest bestimmt. Als Textvorlage konnte der Herausgeber eine bislang wenig beachtete Dichtung von Christian Weise (1642‒1708) nachweisen. Kuhnau stand mit d...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

Die Kantate Lobet, ihr Himmel, den Herrn ist für den Himmelfahrtstag bestimmt und entstanden. Ein konkretes Entstehungsdatum ist nicht erhalten, durch die modernere Streicherbesetzung mit nur einer Vi...

The vocal score of Henry Purcell's famous opera 'Dido and Aeneas' is based on the Bärenreiter Urtext edition of the full score. As its main source served the Tatton Park manuscript (National Trust), w...

The most famous of several Vivaldi works entitled Gloria (RV 589), this edition by Clayton Westermann includes a short preface to explain performance practice. Of the three recorded Glorias Vivaldi wr...

The CHANDOS ANTHEMS, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

The CHANDOS ANTHEMS, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

The CHANDOS ANTHEMS, HWV 246-256, are a collection of eleven anthems composed by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) when he was composer in residence at Cannons, the court of James Brydges, newly the...

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) wrote numerous versions in G minor of the Magnificat canticle, making alterations to his own settings over his decades serving as director of music at the Ospedale della Pi...

Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie I, Band 9.2 Besetzung: Sopran solo (3), Alt solo (3), Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor: SATTB, 1. Flauti (Piccolo-Flöte, 1. Blockflöte, Flöte) 2. Flauti (Piccolo-...