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Franz von Suppè did not write his "Requiem" as a generally human or pantheistic lament for the dead, but as a consciously Christian-Catholic work of confession. The fact that Suppè succeeded in compos...

Cherubini's "Messe solennelle in G" was originally composed for a planned coronation ceremony in 1819. However, the celebrations did not take place. The mass disappeared into oblivion and was only red...

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...

Coro SATB, Org - Orgelauszug

Mendelssohn's unfinished 3rd oratorio in the first critical edition. Performance material is available separately for Part 1 and Part 2 of the oratorio. Part 1: "The Nativity", Part 2: "The Passion of...

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...

Psalm 112 was composed by the 22-year-old George Frideric Handel during his stay in Italy. The thematic material of the composition comes in part from one of Handel's early works in Halle, which uses...

The Gloria is the 13-year-old Mendelssohn's first major church composition. It was written at the beginning of 1822 as part of his composition lessons with Carl Friedrich Zelter, the director of the B...

When Joseph Haydn took over the direction of the Esterházy Chapel in 1766 after the death of his predecessor Gregor Joseph Werner, he began composing his first and most extensive Missa solemnis. The t...

Haydn probably wrote the Missa Sancti Nicolai in 1772 for Prince Nicolaus Esterházy's name day. Not only is it comparatively large in scale, but the orchestra is also larger than usual for Missae brev...

In the Mariazell Mass Haydn succeeds convincingly in creating a specific synthesis between the high demands of 'autonomous' art music on the one hand, which are reflected in the corresponding composit...

The Missa in Tempore Belli is an interesting work in several respects. On the one hand, this mass setting allows some conclusions to be drawn about the situation of Austrian church music under the inf...

Joseph Haydn's "Missa in B flat" with the nickname "Mass of Creation", the fifth of his six late Missae solemnes, was composed in just six weeks in 1801. Like all of his great masses, he composed this...

Mozart's "Missa in C major" K. 317, unfoundedly called the "Coronation Mass", is one of the most popular and most frequently performed works of its genre. The autograph of the mass, which is revealing...

Mozart's mass settings have always been an integral part of church music practice. Like few other settings of the Ordinary, they combine high artistic perfection and beauty of sound with the requireme...

The "Missa brevis in F" KV 192 (186f) is a highlight among Mozart's youth masses. The music is extremely accessible and charming, and due to the Credo calls interspersed throughout the third movement,...

The nickname of this mass is due to the independent solo presence of the organ instrument during the "Benedictus" section. K. 259 is thus part of a tradition dating back to the 1730s, which can be tra...

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio of the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Hasse's Misere in c exists in several authentic versions. The first version from 1735 was intended for the girls of the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice; Carus offers a later version for mixed voice...

Rheinberger reported around 150 performances of his Christoforus in Germany and abroad around 1900 - a success story that unfortunately came to an end in the 20th century. With the present edition, ba...

In preparation for his final examinations at the Conservatory in Munich in the summer of 1854, the 15-year-old Rheinberger turned his focus on composing in the old a cappella style in various scorings...

Joseph Martin Kraus, who was born in the same year as Mozart and, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and died far too young, has been receiving more attention again in rece...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

The Carus Urtext edition is based on the first edition of the score from 1800 as its main source. Haydn had it self-published, contrary to his usual practice, in order to avoid unauthorized pre-public...