Sacred & Church Music Sheet Music Downloads (PDF)

Arranged for soloists, choir and organ.

The "Geistliche Chor-Music" published in 1648 is still considered one of Heinrich Schütz's key works. After the revised new edition by Werner Breig, the two-volume practical edition (BA 5901/BA 5902)...

Komponiert im Jahr 2011 für Katherine Dienes-Williams und den Chor der Guildford Cathedral, umfasst Guildford Mass die üblichen Texte der lateinischen Messe (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agn...

Kim André Arnesen’s Stabat Mater breathes new life into the 13th-century Latin hymn, which portrays the Virgin Mary’s suffering at the crucifixion of her son, Jesus Christ. Amongst the traditional sta...

A setting of one of the seven O Antiphons, O Adonai, is built upon an ostinato figure on a single note which starts and ends the composition, initially using the words of the title. Acting as a drone...

This anthem was commissioned by Anna Lapwood for the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, during her tenure as Director of Music, to mark the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to study at the...

Nearly thirty works – including motets, masses, cantatas, and other sacred compositions – attest to the central role of religiously inspired music in Nino Rota’s (1911–1979) vocal, choral, and symphon...

Nana Forte's "Stabat Mater", composed for a six-part mixed choir, is inspired by the timeless sacred text and offers a deeply human reflection on grief and compassion. The piece speaks a modern musica...

The choral piece "Regna terrae" (based on Psalm 68, verses 33 and 35) by Dariusz Zimnicki radiates joy, which is expressed above all through its rhythm. In the more melodic middle section, the voices...

From a music-historical point of view, Anton Diabelli belongs to a middle group of Biedermeier composers who can be assigned neither to the Classical nor to the Romantic period. Although Diabelli want...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri, whose "Misatango" is known and loved by many choirs, sets the 127th psalm "Nisi Dominus" to music for solo soprano and mixed cho...

The famous merchant's son and later founder of the order, Francis of Assisi, has repeatedly been taken as a source of inspiration from a wide variety of perspectives and Damijan Mocnik also follows in...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...