Classical Sheet Music

The All-Night Vigil (or Vespers) is a setting of music for a night-long service on the eves of Russian Orthodox holy days, and became one of Rachmaninoff's favorite compositions. Basing the 15 movemen...

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847), wrote an enormous amount of music in all the forms of his day except opera; today, only a few of his works are in the concert repertory, but these are very pop...

The aria "Er Weidet Seine Herde" belongs to the famous oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741. The work sensitively conveys the image of a shepherd tending his flock, a symbol of...

The aria "Er Weidet Seine Herde" belongs to the famous oratorio Messiah by George Frideric Handel, composed in 1741. The work sensitively conveys the image of a shepherd tending his flock, a symbol of...

Abendlied by Josef Rheinberger is one of the outstanding works of German Romantic church music. It was composed in a spirit of deep contemplation and is inspired by the psalm "Remain with us", conveyi...

Abendlied by Josef Rheinberger is one of the outstanding works of German Romantic church music. It was composed in a spirit of deep contemplation and is inspired by the psalm "Remain with us", conveyi...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

The Chorus of Angels is a movement from *The Christmas Story* (Weihnachts-Historie), SWV 435, a German-language setting of the Christmas story composed by Heinrich Schütz and presumably premiered in D...

The Chorus of Angels is a movement from *The Christmas Story* (Weihnachts-Historie), SWV 435, a German-language setting of the Christmas story composed by Heinrich Schütz and presumably premiered in D...

Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...

The Messa di Gloria (Mass of Glory) is among the most beautiful works that the not yet thirty-year-old Rossini composed in the fruitful period in which he worked in Naples (the years of 'La donna del...

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Marc-Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704) was a French Baroque composer during the reign of Louis XIV. Charpentier dominated the Baroque musical scene in seventeenth century France because of the quality o...

The Agnus Dei by Georges Bizet is a work of great purity, filled with calm and gentle expression. Originally coming from a larger vocal context, it shows Bizet's fine melodic sense. The flowing main l...