Music for Mourning Sheet Music

Das 'Requiem in c' von Johann Michael Haydn hatte großen Einfluss auf W. A. Mozarts Requiem-Vertonung. In nur zwei Wochen komponierte J. M. Haydn sein Werk im Dezember 1771 anlässlich des Todes seines...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C major for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Friedrich August II in November 1763 in the...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the ceremonial exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholi...

Hasse's much smaller-scale Requiem in B flat, which we are publishing for the first time, was presumably composed as early as the second half of the 1750s. Nothing is known about the occasion for whic...

The history of the genesis of the Requiem is entwined with legends and anecdotes. The burdens of the composition and performance of La Clemenza di Tito and Die Zauberflöte, and an acute infection led...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

Soli STB, Coro SATB, 2 Tr, 2 Cor, Timp, 2 Vl, Vc/Cb, Org, [2 Trb]

Requiem c-Moll für Soli, Chor und Orchester Das sehr feierliche und groß besetzte Werk stammt aus der Zeit, in der Albrechtsberger Stiftsorganist in Melk war (1759-65) und entstand vermutlich für die...

I. Der leidende, sterbende und begrabene Jesus (Fassung Rudolstadt 1748) II. Passio Christi, secundum Ioannem (Fassung Freiberg 1755) Unerforschte 'weiße Flecken' auf Mitteldeutschlands musikalischer...

A German Requiem is not only one of Brahms' best-known and most frequently performed works, but is also one of the most important sacred compositions ever. At last, a scholarly-critical edition of thi...

Written between 1865-1868, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), Op. 45 was Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) longest work. The seven movement mass sets Martin Luther's translation of Biblical text to m...

Written between 1865-1868, EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM (A GERMAN REQUIEM), Op. 45 was Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) longest work. The seven movement mass sets Martin Luther's translation of Biblical text to m...

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

Gabriel Fauré "Requiem" is the best known of the composer's large works. Seemingly not written for the death of any particular person, he wrote of the work, "Everything I managed to entertain by way o...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Pour les funérailles d'un soldat (For the Funeral of a Soldier) was written by a then nineteen-year-old Lili Boulanger (1893-1918). Her first surviving choral work, it sets to music text from a sectio...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

Dvorák's is one of the Czech composer's great works of church music and one of the most important Requiem settings in music history. The profound effect is based on a sequence of variations on a death...

The musicologist Malcolm Bruno created a new reconstruction of the work on the basis of the funeral ode BWV 198, which has since been established as a parody model. Welcome Comeback Bach's St. John an...

St. Matthew Passion composed by Bent Sørensen

This collection of seven original compositions is very useful as prelude, postlude, and offertory music for worship service, or even for wedding celebrations and funeral observances. With pedal parts...