Mass Sheet Music Downloads

Rooted in the grand, solemn settings of the Mass Ordinary in 19th- and 20th-century France, Kerensa Briggs’s Messe Solennelle brings a contemporary perspective to the genre. Commissioned for The Cathe...

Nearly thirty works – including motets, masses, cantatas, and other sacred compositions – attest to the central role of religiously inspired music in Nino Rota’s (1911–1979) vocal, choral, and symphon...

From a music-historical point of view, Anton Diabelli belongs to a middle group of Biedermeier composers who can be assigned neither to the Classical nor to the Romantic period. Although Diabelli want...

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...

The famous merchant's son and later founder of the order, Francis of Assisi, has repeatedly been taken as a source of inspiration from a wide variety of perspectives and Damijan Mocnik also follows in...

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...

With the last two Missae breves, the "Missa Sancti Nicolai" and the "Missa Sancti Joannis de Deo", Haydn created masterpieces that were already among the most popular in this genre during his lifetime...

Ensembles for whom Schubert's "great" masses are not accessible will find a pleasant alternative in this compact and smaller scored mass from 1816. In terms of its external dimensions, it is a Missa b...

Bärenreiter presents a new arrangement of Ludwig van Beethoven's Mass in C Major. The vocal parts remain unchanged. However, the orchestra is replaced by a piano for four hands and a harmonium. This a...

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...

Luminous rays emanated from the 'Messe de sainte Cécile'. First you were dazzled, then enchanted, then overwhelmed. This is how Camille Saint-Saëns describes the impression made on him by Charles Goun...

In the last summer of his life, Franz Schubert completed the Mass in E flat D 950. The reason for the composition of this Missa solemnis cannot be clarified with certainty. Schubert did not live to se...

1815 – das war ein Jahr, in dem Schubert trotz aller erdrückenden Lehrer-Pflichten unermüdlich neue Werke schuf. Neben etwa 140 neuen Liedern entstanden die zweite und die dritte Sinfonie, vier Bühnen...

Die im Juni und Juli 1816 entstandene Messe in C (D 452) ist für die Lichtentaler Kirche geschrieben und dort wohl auch zuerst aufgeführt worden, wie aus der Dedikation an den Regens chori der Kirche,...

Anders als die vier frühen Messen hat Schubert seine fünfte nicht auf einen konkreten Auftrag, für eine bestimmte Aufführung hin geschrieben – es ging ihm offensichtlich darum, mit ihr seine inzwische...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

… 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...

The richly orchestrated Missa in C K. 317 was probably one of the first church music works that Mozart composed at the beginning of 1779 as the newly appointed Salzburg court organist. With a large or...

A special mass for a special occasion: Giovanni Alberti Ristori's (Christmas) Messa per il Santissimo Natale. From 1715 to 1753, Ristori rose to the position of Vice-Kapellmeister at the Electoral Sax...

The Latin text of the mass is venerable, universal, and unites people. For the German Protestant Church Congress 2015, this ancient text was set in contemporary style by Tilman Jäger under the title M...

Kyrie - Gloria - Credo - Sanctus - Agnus Dei

Kyrie - Gloria - Credo - Sanctus - Agnus Dei

The Latin mass text is archaic, universal and unifying. For the 2015 German Protestant Church Congress, Tilman Jäger set the old text to a contemporary soundtrack under the title Missa Pacis. Impressi...

Arrangement for women's choir or children's choir a cappella. The notated chord symbols give the opportunity for creative alternative interpretations.