Classical Music Sheet Music Downloads

Webers "Missa sancta No. 1" in Es-Dur ist auch unter dem Beinamen "Freischütz-Messe" bekannt, da er sie 1818 während der Arbeit an der gleichnamigen Oper komponierte. Die Messe erfreute sich bereits b...

As an acclaimed opera composer, Georges Bizet admitted that he had no real sensibility for sacred music. His Te Deum is nonetheless a truly fascinating and highly expressive work. From the majestic "T...

In 1892 Dvorák received a prestigious commission from New York to write a festive cantata to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbuss discovery of America. In response he wrote an im...

Solo SMsTB, Coro SATB, 3 Fl (mit Picc), 2 Ob, 2 Clt, 4 Fg, 4 Cor, 8 Tr, 3 Trb, Ophikleide, Timp, Perc, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb Unter den zahlreichen Kompositionen Verdis bleibt das Requiem als kirchenmusikal...

Solo SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, Eh, 2 Clt, 2 Fg, 4 Cor, 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Tb, Timp, Große Caisse, Arpa, Perc, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Org - erste kritische Edition von Gounods letztem Werk - ausführliches Vor...

During his most productive period as an opera composer, Camille Saint-Saëns also wrote sacred works, among which his Oratorio de Noël has enjoyed great worldwide popularity. The colorful and opulently...

Anton Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor at the young age of 24 in memory of a friend of his father's who was his patron. The work was greatly influenced by the Viennese classical style. He revi...

Through works such as Verdi’s Requiem or Puccini’s Messa di Gloria, we know that the great composers of Italian bel canto opera also wrote marvelous sacred music. Yet most of these pieces are rarely p...

Bruckner described his setting of Psalm 150 of 1892 as 'my best festive cantata of all'. Psalm 150 has a definite festive character, manifested straight away in the monumental Hallelujah theme for the...

Die einzelnen Werke des kirchenmusikalischen Zyklus' der 'Quattro pezzi sacri' entstanden 1889 bis 1897 unabhängig voneinander, ihre Besetzung reicht von Solostimmen a cappella bis hin zum Doppelchor...

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

Die beiden Dichtungen von John Milton L'Allegro (Frohsinn) und Il Pensieroso (Schwermut) beschreiben die Gegensätze dieser beiden Stimmungen. Charles Jennens fertigte daraus, ergänzt durch den dritten...

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

Bach's Cantata BWV 69a of 1723, which has remained largely unknown to the present day, is now available for the first time in a practical edition with this Carus publication. It has been unjustly negl...

liturgical intention unknown

Die Kantate 'Der Herr ist mein Hirte' stammt aus dem Jahr 1731 und war offenbar als Ergänzung zum Choralkantatenjahrgang bestimmt, den Bach Ostern 1725 unvollendet abbrach. Bach hat die fünfstrophige...

The cantata 'Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich' (O my Lord, I long for thee) BWV 150 is one of the earliest cantatas from Bach's Mühlhausen period. Its authenticity was long disputed, partly because of t...

Reconstruction of the supposed original version (Klaus Hofmann); date of composition uncertain

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...

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...

Composed in 1727 for a 'eulogy and funeral oration' for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in the Leipzig University church, the music for the funeral ode is well-known today above all through reconstru...