Music for Mourning Sheet Music

Satz aus dem 'War Requiem' von Benjamin Britten

Die vorliegende Fassung von Pendereckis Trauergesang entstand anlässlich des zweiten Todestages des polnischen Komponisten, an dem die offizielle Trauerfeier nach der Corona-Pandemie unter großer Ante...

Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Fg, 2 Ctr, 3 Trb, 2 Bassetthörner, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc/Cb, Org.

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

For the funeral rites after the death of King Augustus I. of Saxony ('Augustus the Strong'), Zelenka composed the Requiem in D (ZWV 46) and the Officium Defunctorum (ZWV 47), both integral parts of th...

The music scholar Malcolm Bruno has prepared a new reconstruction of the work based on the meanwhile established parody model Trauerode BWV 198. Welcome comeback Bach's St John and St. Matthew Passion...

Written for, and recorded by Barnaby Smith, VOCES8 and the VOCES8 Choir and Orchestra. The US Premiere will be on July 19, 2026 by Quintessence. Utilizing inspiration from both sacred and secular idio...

The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti...

The text for this piece is derived from the Epistle to the Reader of Sir Thomas Browne's Hydriotaphia, (1658). Subtitled Urn Burial, the essay is a reflection on the discovery of a Roman urn burial si...

Released to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the work’s premiere, the choral score of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion BWV 244 provides choral singers with a lightweight and practical edition that con...

La Sestina (Sestine), ist eine Gedichtform, die aus sechs Strophen zu je sechs Zeilen besteht und durch eine dreizeilige Coda beendet wird. Die Schlusswörter der ersten Strophe (tomba, cielo, terra, s...

Die kleine, ausdruckserfüllte Passion offenbart Pfleger als bedeutenden Vertreter des monodisch-konzertanten Kirchenstils zwischen Schütz und Buxtehude, der das alte Vokalkonzert unter dem Einfluss de...

Littlemore Tractus was commissioned first in 1999 so that its first performance in February 2001 would coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English priest, poet, nineteenth century...

Littlemore Tractus was commissioned first in 1999 so that its first performance in February 2001 would coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English priest, poet, nineteenth century...

Abide with me' wurde von Hery Francis Lyte im Jahr 1847 geschrieben und ist einfach, elegant und zeitlos. Der Choral wurde von William H. Monk aufgeschrieben und an Lyte's Trauerfeier uraufgeführt. Ro...

The composer Joseph Martin Kraus was born in the same year as Mozart, and like Salzburg's famous son, he was highly gifted and died too young. But in recent years he has received more attention. And r...

When Brenda Vongova of the United Nations Chamber Music Society asked me to write a ten-minute arrangement of Juraj Filas’s "Requiem: Oratio spei" for a six-piece chamber ensemble without voices, it p...

When Brenda Vongova of the United Nations Chamber Music Society asked me to write a ten-minute arrangement of Juraj Filas’s "Requiem: Oratio spei" for a six-piece chamber ensemble without voices, it p...

Das Originalwerk zu dieser Bearbeitung ist die Ciaccona für Streichorchester aus dem Jahre 2005, die aus Anlass des Todes Papst Johannes Paul II. entstand. Als instrumentales Zwischenspiel hat sie der...

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...