Sheet Music Downloads by Johann Sebastian Bach

The edition of the Mass in B minor as part of the New Bach Edition was and is the standard for generations of musicians. The first volume of the revised new edition now presented by Uwe Wolf offers mu...

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the "St. John Passion". The first version from 1724, which is commonly used today, is a mixture of different readings. It w...

Arranged for SATB choir and organ Many congregations cannot celebrate Christmas without 'Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage', but often the instrumental possibilities and financial means for...

Experience one of the most moving moments in sacred choral literature: "Ach Herr, lass dein' lieb' Engelein" is the unforgettable final chorale from Johann Sebastian Bach’s monumental St. John Passion...

Experience one of the most radiant highlights of sacred choral music: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme" from Johann Sebastian Bach's celebrated Cantata BWV 140. Originally composed for the 27th Sunday...

The "Miserere" is based on the Prelude and Fugue in B-flat minor from the 1st part of the “Well-Tempered Clavier” by Johann Sebastian Bach. In his choral version, Heribert Breuer transposes the origin...

The cantata Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern BWV 1 has become somewhat famous: With it, Bach's ambitious project of a choral cantata year came to an abrupt end on March 25, 1725 after around nine mo...

Bach composed "Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein" BWV 2 for the 2nd Sunday after Trinity in 1724 as the second cantata of the choral cantata year. It is based on Martin Luther's rewriting of the 12th P...

Bach composed the cantata "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid" for the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1725; it is part of the choral cantata cycle. In the large-scale choral movement, a sorrowful choral mo...

The surviving parts for the cantata "Christ lag in Todes Banden" BWV 4.2 were used for a performance on Easter Sunday, April 1, 1725; this performance was presumably an emergency solution, as the chor...

Bach composed the choral cantata Wo soll ich fliehen hin BWV 5 for the 19th Sunday after Trinity in 1724. The cantata belongs to Bach's 2nd Leipzig year, the choral cantata year. The opening movement...

Bach composed the cantata "Bleib bei uns, denn es will Abend werden" BWV 6 for Easter Monday in 1725. A choral cantata was actually planned for this holiday as well, but the choral cantata year breaks...

The cantata Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam BWV 7 for St. John's Day (24.6.) 1724 is the third cantata of the choral cantata year begun on the 1st Sunday after Trinity (11.6.1724). It is based on Mar...

The cantata Liebster Gott, wenn wird ich sterben belongs in its original form BWV 8.1 to Bach's choral cantata cycle of 1724/25 and was first performed on the 16th Sunday after Trinity (September 24,...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach’s masterful cantata "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her" BWV 9 in a first-class edition by Carus-Verlag. Composed for the 6th Sunday after Trinity, this sacred masterpiece...

Bach created a special kind of choral cantata for the Feast of the Visitation (July 2, 1724): It is not based on a Protestant hymn, but on a Gregorian chorale (9th psalm tone). The German Magnificat -...

On March 2, 1714, Johann Sebastian Bach, who had previously worked as a chamber musician and organist at the court of Duke Wilhelm Ernst in Weimar, was promoted to concertmaster and commissioned to co...

Bach's cantata BWV 13 (from the third Leipzig cantata cycle) was first performed on the 2nd Sunday after Epiphany in 1726. The work is characterized in particular by the unusual scoring for Bach's chu...

This cantata, which was first performed in Leipzig on January 1, 1726, belongs to a small group of compositions that were written between Advent 1725 and mid-January 1726 and use poems by one and the...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach’s celebratory cantata "Wer Dank opfert, der preiset mich" BWV 17 in a first-class edition from Carus-Verlag. Composed for the 14th Sunday after Trinity, this masterwor...

The cantata dates from Bach's Weimar period. The instrumental scoring with four violas and basso continuo, to which two recorders led at octave intervals to viola I and II are added in a Leipzig perfo...