Intermediate Sheet Music from Carus-Verlag

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Estuans intrinsecus" (No. 191 in the Codex Buranus) is attributed to a poet whose name has come down to us as Arc...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Estuans intrinsecus" (No. 191 in the Codex Buranus) is attributed to a poet whose name has come down to us as Arc...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iste mundus" (text no. 24 in the Codex Buranus) articulates a lament about the falseness and transience of human...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iste mundus" (text no. 24 in the Codex Buranus) articulates a lament about the falseness and transience of human...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": "O Fortuna" (text no. 17 in the Codex Buranus) is a rhythmic strophic song. The text has been world-famous since Carl Orff...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": "O Fortuna" (text no. 17 in the Codex Buranus) is a rhythmic strophic song. The text has been world-famous since Carl Orff...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iam dudum estivalia pertransiere tempora" (The summer season has long since passed) comes from the later-discover...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The text "Iam dudum estivalia pertransiere tempora" (The summer season has long since passed) comes from the later-discover...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The section "Carmina armatoria" (love songs) is the largest group in the Codex Buranus (texts no. 56-186) with 131 texts of...

The composer Peter Schindler on this single edition from "Perpetuum mobile": The section "Carmina armatoria" (love songs) is the largest group in the Codex Buranus (texts no. 56-186) with 131 texts of...

Schon immer hatte Brahms ein sicheres Gespür für lyrische Qualität. Musikalisch besonders berührend wusste er mit seinem Zyklus 'Vier Quartette' op. 92 für Singstimmen und Klavier vier Gedichte von Go...

“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...

This is how the Parzen, the goddesses of fate in Greek and Roman mythology, sang: the Parzenlied in Goethe's verse drama "Iphigenia in Tauris", which became the model for Johannes Brahms, is about cur...

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...

The Codex Buranus, the famous collection of medieval song and drama texts from the Benediktbeuern monastery, still holds many exciting secrets today: Who wrote the texts? Why, and above all: for whom?...

Das deutsche Nunc dimittis 'Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener' hat Schütz 1656 anlässlich des Todes des sächsischen Kurfürsten Johann Georg I. gleich 'auf zweyerlei Art' vertont und drucken lassen. D...

In his Christmas motet 'Hodie Christus natus est' Schütz employs the full mastery of his madrigalian musical language and exploits all the sonorous richness which the six part scoring offers him. The...

No. 13 of the 'Opus ultimum'

Alongside Gesualdo and Monteverdi, Marenzio is one of the great Italian madrigalists. The influence of his sophisticated madrigalian art on the younger generation of composers is shown by the fact tha...

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...