Classical Music (Classical Era) Sheet Music Downloads

In contrast to the two "Regina coeli" settings K. 74 and 127, which are scored for solo soprano and choir, Mozart uses the quartet of soloists in K. 276, which, as in the Salzburg masses, often only d...

Motette - Coro SATB, 2 Vl, Va, Bc

Orgelsolomesse - Der Beiname dieser Messe verdankt sich der eigenständig-solistischen Präsenz des Orgelinstruments während des 'Benedictus'-Abschnittes. Damit steht KV 259 in einer bis in die 1730er J...

When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart returned to Salzburg from his trip to Paris in January 1779, the only work of church music he had in his luggage was an unfinished Kyrie in E flat major (K. 296a) together...

Joseph Haydn's Stabat Mater, written in 1767, was the first church work the composer wrote after entering the service of Prince Esterházy in Eisenstadt. Unlike almost all his other sacred works, it so...

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels - St Michael, St Gabriel, and the Raphaelismesse in honor of St Raphael now published. By avoiding the use of vocal soloists,...

Michael Haydn composed three of his masses in honor of the holy archangels: the "Michaelis", the "Gabrielis" and the "Raphaelismesse" presented here. With its lack of vocal soloists, it belongs to the...

But, dear Beethoven, what have you done again? Even if the authenticity of this statement, which was quoted by Anton Schindler, may be doubted, it reflects quite well the confusion that the Mass in C...

Beethoven bezeichnete die Missa solemnis mehrfach als sein größtes Werk. 'Von Herzen kommend', sollte es die Menschen berühren und bewegen. Lange und intensiv hatte Beethoven sich mit der Komposition...

Unter den gut 20 großen Messen von Jan Dismas Zelenka kommt der Missa Sancti Josephi eine Schlüsselstellung zu. In der vermutlich 1732 für ein Heiligenfest (deshalb ohne Credo) komponierten Messe grei...

Zu Unrecht ist Diabellis Kirchenmusik weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dabei schafft der österreichische Komponist der Bieder­meierzeit in der 'Pastoral-Messe in F' den Spagat zwischen künstlerisc...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach scored a real hit with his "Passion Cantata". The work was already so popular during Bach's lifetime that there were public calls for an annual performance. Bach himself is s...

Die Choralkantate Straf mich nicht in deinem Zorn entstand vermutlich 1771 und greift eine Dichtung von Johann Georg Albinus über den 6. Psalm auf. Die sieben Strophen der Vorlage werden in sieben Sät...

Justin Heinrich Knecht's compositional interpretation of Moses Mendelssohn's poetic translation of Psalm 6 carries the fire of enlightened thought in music. Effective orchestration, targeted use of ch...

Mozarts Missa in C-Dur KV 317, unbegründeterweise Krönungsmesse genannt, zählt zu den beliebtesten und am meisten aufgeführten Werken ihrer Gattung. Das in vieler Hinsicht aufschlussreiche Autograph d...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

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

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

With this arrangement it is possible to present the work in a performance space of limited size. Haydn's original orchestration is filled with vivid tone painting and this reduced version represents H...

Joseph Haydns oratorio Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze is probably one of the most frequently performed settings of music for Good Friday. Haydn set these Seven Words in a dramatic...

Coro SATB, 2 Clt (2 Vl), 2 Fg, 2 Cor, 2 Ctr, Timp, Cb, [Org] oder Coro SATB, [Org] Sprache: deutsch Hier liegt vor deiner Majestät - Die Musik des jüngeren Haydn-Bruders, die - obgleich von den Zeitge...