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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

Nana Forte's "Stabat Mater", composed for a six-part mixed choir, is inspired by the timeless sacred text and offers a deeply human reflection on grief and compassion. The piece speaks a modern musica...

Nana Forte's "Stabat Mater", composed for a six-part mixed choir, is inspired by the timeless sacred text and offers a deeply human reflection on grief and compassion. The piece speaks a modern musica...

The choral piece "Regna terrae" (based on Psalm 68, verses 33 and 35) by Dariusz Zimnicki radiates joy, which is expressed above all through its rhythm. In the more melodic middle section, the voices...

The choral piece "Regna terrae" (based on Psalm 68, verses 33 and 35) by Dariusz Zimnicki radiates joy, which is expressed above all through its rhythm. In the more melodic middle section, the voices...

Danish composer John Høybye enjoys great acclaim at home and abroad, not just for his music but also for his work as a (choral) conductor and arranger. Presenting a medium level of difficulty, Hope. E...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentine composer Martín Palmeri, whose Misatango is beloved by many choirs, has set Psalm 127 Nisi Dominus for solo soprano and mixed choir, accompanied by bandone...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri, whose "Misatango" is known and loved by many choirs, sets the 127th psalm "Nisi Dominus" to music for solo soprano and mixed cho...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...

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...

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...

The Missa Gratias agimus tibi by Jan Disma Zelenka was composed in 1730, a little before the Missa Sancti Josephi (Carus 27.082), and is thus already close to Zelenka's late style. As a festive mass,...

So sangen die Parzen, die Schicksalsgöttinnen der griechisch-römischen Mythologie: Von Fluch und Schicksal handelt das Parzenlied in Goethes Versdrama "Iphigenie auf Tauris", das zur Vorlage für Johan...

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

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...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

“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...

In einer Mischung aus Kantate und Konzertstück vertont Beethoven in der Chorfantasie eine Hymne auf die Kunst. Das etwa zwanzigminütige Werk wird oft als Vorläufer der 'Ode an die Freude' der 9. Symph...

Kleine Credomesse - Im Sommer 1774 schrieb Mozart in unmittelbarer zeitlicher Nachbarschaft zwei Messen, die Missa brevis in F KV 192 und die Missa brevis in D KV 194. Beiden Kompositionen eigen ist e...

… one of the most beautiful things I have ever written, Max Reger said in 1915 about his last completed choral work, "Requiem." A distinctive feature: It is based not on the liturgical text, but on Fr...

… one of the most beautiful things I have ever written, said Max Reger in 1915 about his last completed choral work, "Requiem." A distinctive feature: It is based not on the liturgical text, but on Fr...