Classical Sheet Music

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Magnificat BWV 243 was composed in its first form in E flat, right at the beginning of Bach’s period in Leipzig, possibly for the Visitation of Mary on July 2, 1723. Its perfor...

The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The M...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, among other things in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this Vespers Psalm has some peculiarities: the...

The "Petite Messe solennelle" from 1863 is Rossini's second extensive sacred composition alongside the "Stabat Mater". The mass is an occasional work, written for the inauguration of the private chape...

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...

This single edition for practical use is based on the scholarly complete edition, founded by Holger Eichhorn. While the scholarly edition uses the original clefs, the practical edition is edited in mo...

Giuseppe Torelli (1658-1709) was the reputed father of the instrumental concerto; what is not widely known is that he also composed sacred vocal music. Discovered in 2001, when the Berlin Sing-Akademi...

The ten motets (Concerti sacri) for solo voice, violins and continuo making up his Op. 3 (1703) are among his most attractive compositions, standing on the borderline between seventeenth-century bel c...

Die „Passio per il Venerdi Santo“, eine Passionsvertonung zum Karfreitag auf den Text des Evangelisten Johannes, von Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716) aus dem Jahr 1702 darf als ein zentrales Werk dieses...

Die „Passio per il Venerdi Santo“, eine Passionsvertonung zum Karfreitag auf den Text des Evangelisten Johannes, von Gaetano Veneziano (1656–1716) aus dem Jahr 1702 darf als ein zentrales Werk dieses...

Transcription for Harp by Karl Oberthür.

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...

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...

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...

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...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. First you were dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression made on him by Charles Goun...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. First you were dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression made on him by Charles Goun...

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and at the same time his most important work of this genre. The Mass is full of varied drama and confessional e...

André Messager (1853-1929) was a composition and Piano pupil of Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924). They collaborated during the summer of 1881 to compose Mass of the Fisherman from Villerville and the first p...

Single piano edition

The Chorales are taken from my opera, The Intelligence Park.© Gerald Barry