Classical Music (Classical Era) Sheet Music Downloads

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...

Sacrilege or a stroke of genius? The composer and Kapellmeister Gottlob Benedict Bierey (1772-1840) orchestrated the first movement of Beethoven's famous "Moonlight Sonata" for orchestra (transposed t...

The autograph contains no reference to the participation of instruments, and there is no doubt that a purely vocal performance would do full justice to the work. On the other hand, there is nothing to...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...

Since the two verifiable autographs of the Offertorium Misericordias Domini have been lost, Robert Münster has for the first time used the copies he has found from the Munich court music for this new...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Regina coeli" is the first of his three settings of the Marian antiphon for Vespers at Easter.

Of the vespers and vesper psalms that Mozart wrote for Salzburg Cathedral, the vesper parts "Dixit et Magnificat" are the earliest. Like the later complete vespers, they belong to the ecclesiastical a...

contains: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) in C Confitebor (Ps 110) in e Beatus vir (Ps 111) in B Laudate pueri (Ps 112) in F Laudate Dominum (Ps 116) in A Magnificat in C

It was during Mozart's last years at Salzburg, 1779 and 1780, that he composed the two sets of Vespers, KV 321 and KV 339. The music ot these Vespers gives no indication of Mozart's many grounds for a...

Mit den beiden letzten Missae breves, der 'Missa Sti Nicolai' und der 'Missa St Joannis de Deo', hat Haydn auch in dieser Gattung Meisterwerke geschaffen, die bereits zu seinen Lebzeiten zu den belieb...

Due to the requirement of the Archbishop of Salzburg that even a solemn mass should not last longer than three quarters of an hour, Mozart composed a "Missa brevis et solemnis", i.e. a solemn mass wit...

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

The "Messa di Rimini", written in 1809 for Rimini Cathedral, is one of Rossini's extensive contributions to Musica sacra alongside the "Petite Messe solennelle", the "Stabat Mater" and the "Messa di G...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio of the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Johann Michael Haydn worked for over 40 years at the prince-archbishop's court in Salzburg, for whom he composed most of his works. The St. Francis Mass, on the other hand, was commissioned by the imp...

contains: Solo aria "O coelitum beati" (G major); choral movement "Alleluia" (C major)

Joseph Martin Kraus, who was born in the same year as Mozart and, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and died far too young, has been receiving more attention again in rece...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

The two Kyrie settings in E flat K. 322 (1778/79) and in C K. 323 (probably not before 1790) are among the works by Mozart that only exist as incomplete draft scores. In both cases, however, Mozart's...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented a complete version of Mozart's Requiem. "Another version?" you might think, as there are now a whole series of other versions available al...

Joseph Haydn set the Ambrosian Canticle to music twice in the course of his life. The "Te Deum" for Empress Marie Therese was composed around 1800 and thus falls into his late creative phase. The larg...

Due to its instrumentation alone, the Missa Sancti Hieronymi occupies a special position both among Haydn's mass settings and in the church music repertoire of the Salzburg royal court. The extraordin...

The names given to Michael Haydn's masses are related to the specific commission or the dedicatee of the composition. For example, Haydn composed the "Missa in honorem Sti. Gotthardi", also known as t...