Classical Romantic Music Sheet Music for Orchestra

Franz Schubert's "Mass in A flat": a work that occupied the composer time and again, with which - in his words - he strove for the "highest in art" - and perhaps only wanted to achieve a position at t...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

A mass setting by Robert Schumann? This is still likely to cause surprise among audiences – after all, Schumann is not generally viewed as a sacred composer. Indeed, his little-known late work, the Mi...

Thanks to the skilful dramatization, the independent instrumental parts and the effective choruses, Berlioz's trilogy "L'Enfance du Christ" (The Childhood of Christ) is a rewarding alternative for Chr...

After his early departure from the opera stage in 1829, Gioachino Rossini only composed larger-scale sacred music in addition to chamber music. This included the "Stabat Mater", which was composed in...

The Critical Report on the Oratorio "Elijah" concludes the five-volume edition on this major work by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. It presents - for once in the form of a volume separate from the music...

De profundis, composed in 1834 but left unfinished, is a watershed in Liszt's development as a composer. This 'instrumental psalm' for piano and orchestra, lasting over 30 minutes, was inspired by Lis...

A German Requiem is not only one of Brahms' best-known and most frequently performed works, but is also one of the most important sacred compositions ever. At last, a scholarly-critical edition of thi...

Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) composed his chorale CANTATA No. 140, WACHET AUF, RUFT UNS DIE STIMME (Awake, calls the voice to us), BWV 140, also known as SLEEPERS AWAKE, for the 27th Sunday aft...

Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) composed his chorale CANTATA No. 140, WACHET AUF, RUFT UNS DIE STIMME (Awake, calls the voice to us), BWV 140, also known as SLEEPERS AWAKE, for the 27th Sunday aft...

Johann Sebastian Bach's (1685-1750) composed his chorale CANTATA No. 140, WACHET AUF, RUFT UNS DIE STIMME (Awake, calls the voice to us), BWV 140, also known as SLEEPERS AWAKE, for the 27th Sunday aft...

Written between 1865-1868, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), Op. 45 was Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) longest work. The seven movement mass sets Martin Luther's translation of Biblical text to m...

Written between 1865-1868, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), Op. 45 was Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) longest work. The seven movement mass sets Martin Luther's translation of Biblical text to m...

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

ELIJAH (German: ELIAS), Op. 70, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) that depicts events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books 1 Kings and 2 Kings of the Old Test...

This is the second of six Masses composed by Franz Schubert (1797-1828), also referred to frequently as the "Mass in G," and it remains the best known of the three shorter settings titled &q...

Antonín Dvorák (1841-1904) began composition of his setting of the Stabat Mater text in 1876 and finally finishing the orchestral version in late 1877, though it was not published until 1881 as Op. 58...