Music for Mourning Sheet Music

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...

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...

As Mozart specialist Ulrich Konrad was able to prove in 2020, the version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's “Masonic Funeral Music” that is widely in use today does not stem from the composer himself. Rath...

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...

Das Requiem von Gabriel Fauré liegt bei Carus in zwei Fassungen vor, der 1900 abgeschlossenen 'sinfonischen Fassung' sowie einer rekonstruierten Fassung mit kleinem Orchester von 1889. - kritische Aus...

Anton Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor at the young age of 24 in memory of a friend of his father's who was his patron. The work was greatly influenced by the Viennese classical style. He revi...

Written in 1727 for a "speech of praise and mourning" for Electress Christiane Eberhardine in Leipzig's university church, the music of the Trauerode is known today primarily through reconstructions o...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

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...

Haydn's composition is characterized by a dramatic, extremely moving emotionality that is hard to resist. The work was originally conceived as a purely instrumental composition - as meditation music i...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) wrote his Requiem Mass for four soloists, double choir, and orchestra in 1874 in memory of Italian writer and humanist Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi greatly admired. It pre...

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) wrote his Requiem Mass for four soloists, double choir, and orchestra in 1874 in memory of Italian writer and humanist Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi greatly admired. It pre...

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...

This is a collection of practical repertoire for church organists playing at funerals and memorial services. Covering a broad range of music for players of intermediate ability, it includes hymn prelu...

Diese Sammlung präsentiert einschlägige Literatur zum Ende des Kirchenjahres vor allem aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, die zudem auch für Trauerfeiern verwendet werden kann. Hiermit wird die erfolgreiche Rei...