Peteris Vasks Sheet Music for Mixed Choir

Pēteris Vasks (16. April 1946 in Aizpute) ist ein lettischer Komponist. Er lebt heute als freischaffender Komponist in Riga und zählt zu den bekanntesten Komponisten aus den Staaten der ehemaligen Sow...

Immerse yourself in a captivating world of poetry and sound: With "Three Poems by Czeslaw Milosz", Schott Musik presents an expressive choral work of extraordinary depth. The musical setting of poigna...

Pēteris Vasks (April 16, 1946 in Aizpute) is a Latvian composer. He now lives as a freelance composer in Riga and is one of the best-known composers from the states of the former Soviet Union.

Taking as his theme the use of traditional birds' names as pet names for women, Vasks has created a very poetic piece of music based on a text in the Latvian language. German and English translations...

For my composition Cosa devo fare, I was inspired when I read the text accompanying the picture cycle Books of Venice by the Latvian artist Ilmars Blumbergs, who died in 2016. The Books of Venice, con...

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Vasks's popular Missa is now available in his original setting for SATB a cappella choir. The work, which runs for about half an hour, can also be performed with organ or string orchestra.

Vasks's popular Missa is now available in his original setting for SATB a cappella choir. The work, which runs for about half an hour, can also be performed with organ or string orchestra.

Choral music has always played a major role in the work of the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. In this piece, but also in his numerous instrumental works, themes such as home, nature, customs and trad...

Chorpartitur / Chornoten von Liepa (Der Lindenbaum / The Lime Tree) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB).

Mother Teresa liked to surprise people she met by giving them a small card printed with five concise sentences instead of a calling card. The brief text on the card beginning with the line 'The fruit...

Organ and choir take turns in appearing: Three passages on the majestic organ in a vigorous D minor are answered by the choir with a meditative part each. A final interlude on the organ is followed by...

The effective choral setting is based on texts by the Latvian national poet Velta Toma whose works are characterized by her having lived in exile in Canada for decades. At the heart of her Latvian Pra...

Litene is the name of a village in Latvia, which has acquired a significance similar to that of 'Katyn' in Poland. It was in this village that in June 1941 the officer élite of the Latvian army was am...

Varonis - der Held (1989, rev. 2013) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) - ein kurzes Chorstück in lettischer Sprache auf einen Text von Zinaida Lazda. Moderne Techniken des Chorgesangs ein mischen sich mi...

It is particularly the choral music of Peteris Vasks that reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of hi...