Intermediate Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Kantate zum 18. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, Trb], Blfl f2, Fl, 2 Ob, (Vl pic), Str, Org

The hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" is used three times as the opening movement of a Bach cantata: BWV 98-100. While BWV 99 and 100 are choral cantatas, the cantata for the 21st Sunday after Tr...

Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Bestimmung unbekannt. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Cor (2 Tr), Timp, Fl, Obda, Str, Org

Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto, 3 Trb], Fl, 2 Ob, Obca (Tl), Vl solo, Str, Org

The cantata "Ihr werdet weinen und heulen" BWV 103 for Sunday Jubilate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The shepherd music so popular in the Baroque period characterizes the cantata Du Hirte Israel, höre BWV 104: two oboes, waist, triplets, dots and organ dots in the opening chorus, oboes d'amore in the...

During Bach's first months in Leipzig, he composed the cantata "Herr, gehe nicht ins Gericht mit deinem Knecht" BWV 105 for the 9th Sunday after Trinity (25.7.1723). The opening chorus, based on two m...

Kantate zum 7. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli STB, Coro SATB, [Corca], 2 Fl, 2 Obda, Vl solo, Str, Org

The cantata "Es ist euch gut, dass ich hingehe" BWV 108 for Sunday Cantate is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christiane Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his secon...

The cantata Ich glaube, lieber Herr, hilf meinem Unglauben BWV 109, composed for the 21st Sunday after Trinity in 1723, is characterized as a dialogue between unbelief and faith: While the dense openi...

Kantate zum 3. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Str, Org

The cantata "Der Herr ist mein Hirte" dates from 1731 and was evidently intended as a supplement to the choral cantata cycle, which Bach left unfinished at Easter 1725. Bach adopted the five-stanza po...

Kantate zum 17. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, 2 Ob, Str, Org

Kantate zum 22. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], Fl, Obda, Vc pic, Str, Org

Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Epiphanias. Soli SATB, Coro SATB, Cor, Obda, Str, Org

The cantata BWV 127 belongs to the year of choral cantatas that Bach performed in Leipzig in 1724/25. It is closely related to the "St. John Passion", which was performed in its second version on Good...

The three-verse hymn "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" was written by Philipp Nicolai and first appears in his "Freudenspiegel des ewigen Lebens". The poet of the other text sections of the cantata is...

Reconstruction of the original version (Klaus Hofmann); composition period unknown

The Whitsun cantata Erschallet ihr Lieder was composed for the first Whitsun holiday in 1714 and was performed several times in Leipzig in slightly different versions. Performances in 1724 and 1731 ar...

Kantate zum 8. Sonntag nach Trinitatis. Soli ATB, Coro SATB, [Cto], 2 Ob/2 Obda, Str, Org

The cantata Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 opens with a motet-like choral movement in the stile antico without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue:...

The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use i...

A (rare) autograph date (14.7.1715) confirms that the cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe was intended for the 4th Sunday after Trinitatis 1715. Like many Weimar cantatas, it is a decidedly ch...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...