Classical Music (Classical Era) Sheet Music Downloads

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Ludwig van Beethoven was already so revered during his lifetime that his contemporaries arranged his music - mostly the well-known instrumental works - for choir. Such choral settings were even perfor...

The cantata "A child is born to us" for Christmas Day follows an unusual structure with only one aria but two choral movements. The choral movements frame the work, with the soprano aria, surrounded b...

Johann Heinricht Rolle was born in Quedlinburg in 1716. He was appointed music director of the town of Magedburg in 1752. The cantata "Siehe Finsternis, bedeckt das Erdreich und Dunkel der Völker" is...

Seinen "Elegischen Gesang" ("Sanft wie du lebtest") hat Ludwig van Beethoven dem Andenken von Eleonore Pasqualati, der jung verstorbenen Frau seines langjährigen Freundes und Gönners Johann Baptist Fr...

Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his Elegischer Gesang ("Sanft wie du lebtest") to the memory of Eleonore Pasqualati, the wife of his long-time friend and patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati z...

Wagenseil (1715-1777), Hofkomponist und Klavierlehrer der kaiserlichen Familie in Wien, gehörte zu den angesehensten Musikern seiner Zeit. Zwischen Barock und Wiener Klassik betrachtet man ihn heute a...

With his Septet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello and double bass, Beethoven created a key work of chamber music for larger ensembles. He composed the six-movement septet at the same t...

The piece is named after the 4th and last movement, which consists of 12 variations on the theme "La Ritirata di Madrid" (The Return of the Guard of Madrid). The tapping begins very quietly, the music...

Ludwig van Beethoven's "Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt" op. 112 for four-part choir and symphonic orchestra sets a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and can best be categorized as a chor...

Seinen Einakter "Der Schauspieldirektor" schrieb Mozart im Frühjahr 1786 im Auftrag von Kaiser Joseph II. anlässlich eines Besuchs des Generalgouverneurs der Niederlande in Wien. Bei einem kurzfristig...