Intermediate Sheet Music from Carus-Verlag

The cantata 'Ihr Menschen, rühmet Gottes Liebe' (You mortals, tell of God's devotion) BWV 167 is one of the first works which Bach wrote in his capacity as Kantor of St. Thomas's Leipzig. It was compo...

The cantata 'Nun danket alle Gott' (Now thank we all our God) BWV 192 is based on the text of the well-known hymn. It is therefore one of a small number of chorale cantatas which contain no free poeti...

There is hardly a work by a contemporary that Bach can be proven to have worked on as frequently and intensively as Keiser's "St. Mark Passion". There is evidence of a total of three performances, for...

The office as a priest and the long years as musical director of the Ospedale della Pietà (a large orphonage in Venice) both occasioned and inspired him to compose church music in large variety. The M...

Psalm 147 "Lauda Jerusalem" has an important place in the church year, including in vespers on Marian feasts. Antonio Vivaldi's only setting of this vesper psalm has some special features: The work is...

Choralmesse für eine tiefere Solostimme, die 1842 in Windhaag entstand.

Choralmesse für eine tiefere Solostimme, die 1842 in Windhaag entstand.

Der berühmteste Chorsatz des Oratoriums jetzt auch als Einzelausgabe!

„Der geistlichen Musik die Kraft zuzuwenden, bleibt ja wohl das höchste Ziel des Künstlers“, schreibt Robert Schumann im Januar 1851 - und das, obwohl er bis dato kaum als Komponist geistlicher Musik...

Zu Unrecht ist Diabellis Kirchenmusik weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dabei schafft der österreichische Komponist der Bieder­meierzeit in der 'Pastoral-Messe in F' den Spagat zwischen künstlerisc...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. At first one was dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how the composer Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression that Charles...

Weber's "Missa sancta No. 1" in E flat major is also known as the "Freischütz Mass", as he composed it in 1818 while working on the opera of the same name. The mass already enjoyed great popularity am...

„Der geistlichen Musik die Kraft zuzuwenden, bleibt ja wohl das höchste Ziel des Künstlers“, schreibt Robert Schumann im Januar 1851 - und das, obwohl er bis dato kaum als Komponist geistlicher Musik...

Turning one's energy to sacred music remains the artist's highest goal, wrote Robert Schumann in January 1851 - even though he had hardly appeared as a composer of sacred music up to that point. In fa...

As Kapellmeister at Dresden’s royal theater, Carl Maria von Weber’s primary task was to establish a German opera. However, it was also part of his duties to take care of church music every three weeks...

As Kapellmeister at Dresden’s royal theater, Carl Maria von Weber’s primary task was to establish a German opera. However, it was also part of his duties to take care of church music every three weeks...

As Kapellmeister of the royal court theater in Dresden, Carl Maria von Weber's primary task was to establish a German opera at court. However, it was also part of his duties to provide the "church ser...

Are you looking for operatic drama for the church choir? Then the "Messa di Gloria" for soloists, choir and orchestra by Pietro Mascagni is just the right work for you. Mascagni, whose opera "Cavaller...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...