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

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Händels Utrechter Te Deum HWV 278 begeisterte schon bei seiner ersten Aufführung die Londoner Zuhörer und tut dies noch heute in den Konzertsälen und Kirchen weltweit. Es erklang zum ersten Mal in ein...

Handel’s “Semele”, which premiered in February 1744, is based on an adapted version of William Congreve’s opera libretto titled “The Story of Semele”, originally published in 1706. However, neither Ha...

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 Acte de ballet "Zéphire" was never performed during the lifetime of its authors, although the autograph manuscript shows traces that Rameau worked on it several times between 1748 and 1759 – possi...

The performance material is derived from the scholarly-critical editions of the 'Das Erbe deutscher Musik'' series, on which the informative Preface and Critical Report were based.

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...

“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...