Intermediate Sheet Music for Orchestra

Mendelssohn describes to his friend Klingemann the 1840 work as "a ‘symphony for chorus and orchestra’… First three symphonic movements, to which 12 choral- and solo- movements are appendaged; the wor...

Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio "Paulus" under the influence of the revival of J. S. Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" (1829), which he himself conducted. He integrated choral movements into "Paulu...

Antonio Lotti was employed at St. Mark’s Basilica in Venice for almost his entire life. In 1717, however, he was lured for two years to Dresden by the Saxon court as a composer of operas. A score of h...

The first of Beethoven's two Mass settings is decidedly modern and forward-looking in its subjective, confessional tonal language. It opens up completely new worlds of expression for the liturgical te...

Das 'Requiem in c' von Johann Michael Haydn hatte großen Einfluss auf W. A. Mozarts Requiem-Vertonung. In nur zwei Wochen komponierte J. M. Haydn sein Werk im Dezember 1771 anlässlich des Todes seines...

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

With this arrangement it is possible to present the work in a performance space of limited size. Haydn's original orchestration is filled with vivid tone painting and this reduced version represents H...

Der Satz, vermutlich im September 1812 komponiert, stellt eine der frühesten Messvertonungen Schuberts dar. Soli ST, Coro SATB, Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, 2 Tr, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

> Urtext edition of Mendelssohn's last orchestral psalm > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Words underlaid in both German and English > Piano reduction based on the first p...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Haydns großes Alterswerk in einer modernen Urtext-Ausgabe. Von den beiden späten Oratorien Joseph Haydns standen Die Jahreszeiten zunächst im Schatten der Schöpfung. Dabei sind beide Werke in mehrfach...

Der Carus-Urtextausgabe liegt als Hauptquelle der Partitur-Erstdruck von 1800 zu Grunde. Haydn hatte ihn entgegen seinen sonstigen Gepflogenheiten im Eigenverlag erscheinen lassen, um unautorisierte V...

The commission of the Pentaphonia Brass Quintet and the Haize Berriak Sakanako Musika Ekartea Concert Band from the Spanish Basque country was to write a piece for brass quintet and concert band. The...

The commission of the Pentaphonia Brass Quintet and the Haize Berriak Sakanako Musika Ekartea Concert Band from the Spanish Basque country was to write a piece for brass quintet and concert band. The...

This accessible arrangement for Tenor, SATB chorus, and orchestra is sure to be a welcome addition to any holiday program! Feature a wonderful soloist and have your choir back them up in glorious fash...