Mass Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

The "Evening Service" grew out of the celebrations of the one thousandth anniversary of the consecration of St Michael’s Church in Hildesheim, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. For many years St...

Garcia, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1767, a priest and bandmaster at the cathedral there, is still little known. His mostly sacred works include four settings of the Mass for the Dead. The present "Miss...

This Missa solemnis in C major (before 1764) is recommended for performance to all those who would like to get to know Leopold Mozart not only as the composer of a musical sleigh ride and author of a...

With a musically convincing and in many respects highly original interpretation of the liturgical text, Herzogenberg's mass represents a final highlight in the late Romantic repertoire of the "Missa s...

Nicolai's only surviving mass is one of his most important contributions to church music. It is characterized by its varied structure and good singing quality. It therefore offers many choirs a real a...

The Carus program on Dresden court music continues with the first edition of one of the great masses (No. 9, D major) by Johann David Heinichen, the most important musical representative of the Saxon...

Seit den Tagen der Renaissancekomponisten gibt es - jenseits von Plagiatsvorwürfen - die Verehrung eines großen Komponistenkollegen in Form von Zitaten oder gar von Neufassungen seiner Werke. Kein ger...

Giacomo Carissimi, the first grand master of the oratorio and author of numerous concertante motets and Italian bel canto solo cantatas, also composed several masses. The Missa concertata in C for 2 t...

Following the great success of his "Magnificat", the internationally sought-after pop and jazz choir composer Christoph Schönherr has presented another work for Carus with his MISSA in tempore incerto...

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886) is best known today as an opera composer and as the composition teacher of Giacomo Puccini and Pietro Mascagni. His greatest success came in 1876 at La Scala in Milan w...

Mozart and Haydn greatly appreciated the church music of their friend and Viennese court conductor Joseph Eybler. The Missa Sancti Alberti with its lyrical, pastoral tone stands in contrast to his mas...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, transcriptions of large (choral) symphonic works for two pianos were extremely popular, as they enabled a large audience to get to know classical compositions in...

Anton Bruckner's great Mass in E minor for eight-part choir, wind and brass is a captivating work with its expressive combination of archaic unison, strict counterpoint, and romantic-harmonic wind acc...

Bruckner’s mighty Mass in F minor is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music....

The Berlin choirmaster and music teacher Michael Betzner-Brandt is known as a particularly creative mind in the choral scene - for example through his "I can't sing" choirs. In order to be able to sin...

Biber's Requiem in F minor is amongst the most impressive settings of the Requiem Mass of the 17th century. The exact reason for the composition of the Requiem, which can be dated to 1692, is not know...

A valuable addition to the requiem repertoire: Biber's Requiem in F minor is one of the most impressive settings of the requiem mass of the 17th century. The specific occasion for the composition of t...

Monteverdi's "Vespers of Mary" has found its way into today's musical practice like hardly any other work of the 17th century. However, the "Vespers of Mary" also presents us with many puzzles. The so...

Anyone who has Bruckner's symphonies and well-known great masses in their ears will be amazed when they hear his "Missa solemnis" from 1854: can the tradition of Viennese Classicism still be so clearl...

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...

A mass composition by a young Viennese composer: in 1760, at the age of 16, Marianna von Martines (1744-1812) composed her "Seconda Messa". Just one year later, another mass from her pen was performed...