Intermediate Sacred & Church Music Sheet Music

In good time for the Reformation anniversary year 2017, this edition offers four distinctive movements from Johann Sebastian Bach's Reformation cantatas in arrangements for choir and organ. From the c...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

With the festive offertory *Alma Dei creatoris* K. 277 (272a), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created a masterful tribute to the Virgin Mary, radiating grace and sonic brilliance. Scored for soloists, mixed...

Mozart's "Sancta Maria" is one of those liturgical chants that are based on the time of the church year or the respective feast of the saints. It was probably sung on a feast of the Virgin Mary follow...

It was during Mozart's last years at Salzburg, 1779 and 1780, that he composed the two sets of Vespers, KV 321 and KV 339. The music ot these Vespers gives no indication of Mozart's many grounds for a...

Diese 'Werktagsmesse' ist für die Fastenzeit geeignet. Im schlichten Note-gegen-Note-Satz komponiert, weist das frühe Werk [1843-44] erste harmonische Kühnheiten auf, die Bruckner während seiner Studi...

The arrangement of chorales had already played a major role during Mendelssohn's apprenticeship with Zelter, and his preoccupation with the Protestant chorale can even be found throughout his symphoni...

Experience Joseph Haydn's radiant Viennese Classical masterpiece in a practical and resonant arrangement: the beloved Missa brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo, widely cherished as the "Little Organ Mass", c...

Composed in the autumn of 1768 during an extended stay in Vienna, this work marks the beginning of a series of masses in which Mozart was always concerned with the expression of true and genuine churc...

The "Missa brevis in D minor" is one of the few masses that Mozart wrote in a minor key. Only two others, the "Missa solemnis", K. 139, and the "Great Mass", K. 427, are also in a minor key.

In the summer of 1774, Mozart wrote two masses in close proximity to each other, the Missa brevis in F K. 192 and the Missa brevis in D K. 194. Both compositions are characterized by a more or less pr...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

In contrast to the earlier smaller sacred works, whose style is partly borrowed from the Baroque and Classical periods, Schubert has forged his personal, Romantic-influenced sacred style in this opus....