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The Esterházy dynasty commissioned the most important mass compositions at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries: Joseph Haydn's six great last masses, Beethoven's Mass in C major and the masses by...

The "Messa di Rimini", written in 1809 for Rimini Cathedral, is one of Rossini's extensive contributions to Musica sacra alongside the "Petite Messe solennelle", the "Stabat Mater" and the "Messa di G...

The Bohemian Shepherd's Mass from 1796 by Mozart's contemporary Jakub Jan Ryba is the most important of the so-called Czech Christmas masses. These are masses in a popularly reinterpreted sense, in wh...

Beethoven repeatedly described the Missa solemnis as his greatest work, which was intended to touch and move people "from the heart". The surviving sources reveal how intensively and for how long Beet...

Orgelfassung - Coro SATB/SATB, Org - Orgelauszug

Antonin Rejcha's "Te Deum" from 1825, which remained unpublished at the time and is presented here as a first edition, is undoubtedly one of the great, albeit little-known, Te Deum settings of the tra...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio of the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Hasse's Misere in c exists in several authentic versions. The first version from 1735 was intended for the girls of the Ospedale degl'Incurabili in Venice; Carus offers a later version for mixed voice...

Contemporary critics considered Rheinberger's Stabat Mater op. 16, composed in 1864, to be "one of the most beautiful works in this genre in recent times. Distinguished by its broad structure and nobl...

Inspired by Mozart and Cherubini's Requiem settings, Rheinberger created his first major sacred work in 1865 with the "Requiem" op. 60. Before its premiere in 1870, he reworked it once again and dedic...

Rheinberger reported around 150 performances of his Christoforus in Germany and abroad around 1900 - a success story that unfortunately came to an end in the 20th century. With the present edition, ba...

If you are looking for an atmospheric and lyrical work with rewarding tasks for your choir, Rheinberger's Star of Bethlehem is the right choice. In nine scenes (Expectation, The Shepherds, Apparition...

In preparation for his final examinations at the Conservatory in Munich in the summer of 1854, the 15-year-old Rheinberger turned his focus on composing in the old a cappella style in various scorings...

Josef Gabriel Rheinberger wrote the Benedictus sit Deus for choir with an obbligato organ part while spending his vacations in his home country Liechtenstein in the summer of 1861. He donated the shor...

The Recordare Virgo, an offertory for the feast of Our Lady of Sorrows (15 September) is part of the collection Carmina sacra WoO 7, which Rheinberger had published in 1886 at the request of his publi...

The Missa Beatissimae Virginis Mariae was composed around 1758-1760, between the end of Haydn's time as Kapellsänger at St. Stephen's in Vienna and his first appointment as Kapellmeister to the Bishop...

Johann Michael Haydn worked for over 40 years at the prince-archbishop's court in Salzburg, for whom he composed most of his works. The St. Francis Mass, on the other hand, was commissioned by the imp...

contains: Solo aria "O coelitum beati" (G major); choral movement "Alleluia" (C major)

Joseph Martin Kraus, who was born in the same year as Mozart and, like the famous Salzburg composer, was highly gifted musically and died far too young, has been receiving more attention again in rece...

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

Johann Adolf Hasse, Kapellmeister at the Saxon-Polish court in Dresden, composed the Requiem in C for the solemn exequies of the deceased Elector Frederic August II in November 1763 in the Catholic Co...

In contrast to Mozart's much shorter masses of the same period, Leopold Mozart described K. 262 as a "Missa longa". Indeed, the length of the individual movements and the final fugues of the Gloria an...

The two Kyrie settings in E flat K. 322 (1778/79) and in C K. 323 (probably not before 1790) are among the works by Mozart that only exist as incomplete draft scores. In both cases, however, Mozart's...

The Mass in C minor K. 427, Mozart's "Great Mass", is a torso - a circumstance that is extremely regrettable, especially in view of the monumentality of this work. Following his sensational reconstruc...