Music for Mourning Sheet Music

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...

Experience a deeply moving masterpiece of sublime beauty and spiritual depth with the "Messa di Requiem". This impressive setting for mixed choir (SATB) and organ unfolds a devotional richness of soun...

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...

Sanctus is a joyful and dynamic setting of the traditional Requiem text. Composer Mårten Jansson's beautiful and accessible vocal writing is strengthened here by the addition of organ accompaniment. F...

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...

Provide a dignified musical setting for solemn and reflective occasions with the poignant "Funeral March", published by Editions Marc Reift. This expressive work for concert band moves audiences with...

Create moments of dignified reflection and comfort: With "Vier leichte Choräle für Trauerfeierlichkeiten" (Four Easy Chorales for Memorial Services), published by Musikverlag Rundel, wind bands and br...

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...

With the deeply moving "Lacrimosa" from the monumental "Polish Requiem", Schott Music presents a masterpiece of dramatic intensity and poignant beauty in an expressive arrangement for piano trio. The...

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...

Composed at the age of 19, this Requiem for solo piano, following the path of a traditional requiem but with a single instrument and lasting nearly an hour, exposes and transmits the vision of the com...

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...

This publication offers a source-critical edition of Mozart's fragmentary 'Requiem' as well as an alternative to the traditional Süßmayr version. It makes it possible to perform 1) the fragment, ident...

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...

It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destr...