Piano Excerpts

Several elements contribute to the Christmassy character of this mass, which is characterized by its high level of compositional skill: creative devices such as triadic motifs, cradle symbolism as wel...

Frieden fängt im Kleinen an consists of eight songs that can be sung as part of a mass or in concert. The texts approach the concept of "home" from different perspectives, off the beaten track, and ex...

Urtext based on the new Complete Edition edited by Jeremiah W. McGrann [solos,mix ch,orch]

The cantata Schmücket das Fest mit Maien has survived without any information about the time of its composition, its purpose, or its scoring. The librettist is also unknown, although there is a compar...

This cantata is a composition by Kuhnau for the first of the Christmas holidays [Christmas Day] and one of his most extensive works. It is underlaid with the free poetry of a hitherto anonymous author...

Soli,GCh,Orch 45' - Soli: SATB - Chor: SATB - 1.2.2.2. - 2.2.3.0. - Pk - Org - Str

Klavierauszug von Alfred Dürr

The German Requiem is one of the world's most famous requiems, even though it does not set the customary requiem text to music. Brahms did not want to follow the Latin Catholic funeral mass, addressin...

The Frankfurt composer and professor of composition Kurt Hessenberg (1908-1994), together with Ernst Pepping and Hugo Distler, ranks among the most important representatives of Protestant church music...

Klavierauszug mit Chor S/A/T/B und Soli A/T/B 42 Seiten, kartoniert, 21,5 x 30 cm

In this new Urtext edition, Klaus Burmeister builds on our 1929 edition by Kurt Soldan. The piano part has been revised for consistency alongside our new full score, supplying instrument cues and supp...

Johann Sebastian Bach's "St. John Passion BWV 245" is one of the most important and dramatic works of Protestant church music. In this original version, edited by Carl Eberhardt and Gustav Rösler, the...

für Soli (SATB), gem. Chor und Orchester (Neue Ausgabe) Urtext

Christian Gotthilf Tag was one of the most outstanding church musicians of his time in Germany. He composed an astonishing wealth of sacred choral works. He cultivated intensively the cantata form in...

Buxtehude's numerous vocal compositions written for the performance in Lübeck's Marienkirche are stylistically very different. The cantata "So hat Gott die Welt geliebet" is a concerto for solo sopran...

Strangely enough, the cantata has survived with two texts. Of these, the second is certainly a parody, but possibly also the first. While the first text is clearly intended for Easter, the second has...

Trauermusik. Schlussteil mit dem Alt-Solo. Alt solo, Violine Solo, Flöte (3), Oboe (2), Klarinette in b (2), Bass-Klarinette, Fagott (2), Kontrafagott, Horn (2), Trompete (3), Posaune (2), Pauke, Schl...

In his roles as Music Director at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris and in the Royal Choir [chapel] of Louis XV, André Campra (1660-1744) composed numerous motets which frequently displayed the inf...

Ultimately, he is a pupil for whom I need not feel embarrassed,' wrote J. S. Bach, summarizing the qualities of his son-in-law to be, J. C. Altnickol. Altnickol's two settings of the Sanctus, based on...

Gounods Messe à la mémoire de Jeanne dArc was composed in 1887 for a festive mass in Reims to commemorate the arrival of the national heroine in the city on the occasion of the coronation of Charles V...

The best-known requiem mass before Mozart's unfinished Requiem was written by the opera composer Niccolò Jommelli, who was celebrated in his day. The Missa pro defunctis was composed in 1756 during hi...