Johann Sebastian Bach: Advanced Sheet Music

The Hal Leonard Classical Play-Along series will help you play great classical pieces. Using the Amazing Slow-Downer technology included on the CD (adapted for PC and Mac computers), you can adjust th...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

Bach composed the cantata "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid" for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1725; it is part of the choral cantata cycle. In the large-scale choral movement, a sorrowful choral mo...

The surviving parts for the cantata "Christ lag in Todes Banden" BWV 4.2 were used for a performance on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1725; this performance was presumably an emergency solution, as the chor...

Bach composed the choral cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 5 for the 19th Sunday after Trinity in 1724. The cantata belongs to Bach's 2nd Leipzig year, the choral cantata year. The opening movement...

The cantata Liebster Gott, wenn wird ich sterben belongs in its original form BWV 8.1 to Bach's choral cantata cycle of 1724/25 and was first performed on the 16th Sunday after Trinity (September 24,...

The cantata Jesu, der du meine Seele BWV 78 is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's best-known vocal compositions today. It owes its popularity not least to the unusual combination of contrapuntal density i...

The "Actus tragicus" or "God's time is the very best time" BWV 106 is one of Bach's best-known and most appreciated works with an unbroken resonance to this day - a "work of genius that even great mas...

Soli ATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, Tr, 2 Vl, Va, Bc Sprache: deutsch/englisch

The cantata "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir" is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions. It was composed in Mühlhausen in 1707 and does not yet have the elaborate arias and choral movements o...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) in 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually in...

The cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" BWV 150 is one of Bach's earliest cantatas from his Mühlhausen period. For a long time, its authenticity was disputed, a fact which was not only due to the...

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring originates from the cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147, and is among Johann Sebastian Bach's most renowned chorales. Arranged for brass quintet: 2tpt/hn/tbn/t...

Der 'Actus tragicus' oder 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' BWV 106 zählt zu Bachs bekanntesten und am meisten geschätzten Werken mit bis heute ungebrochener Resonanz - ein 'Geniewerk, wie es auch...