Sheet Music for Mixed Choir (SATB) and Piano

The Whitsun cantata Erschallet ihr Lieder was composed for the first Whitsun holiday in 1714 and was performed several times in Leipzig in slightly different versions. Performances in 1724 and 1731 ar...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's masterful cantata for Trinity Sunday: "Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding" BWV 176. This expressive work captivates with its gripping opening chorus and profound re...

The cantata Siehe zu, dass deine Gottesfurcht nicht Heuchelei sei BWV 179 opens with a motet-like choral movement in the stile antico without obbligato instruments. This is initially a counter-fugue:...

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...

The Whitsun cantata "Erwünschtes Freudenlicht" BWV 184 is based on a Köthen composition, presumably a congratulatory cantata, whose instrumental parts (the only surviving ones) Bach continued to use i...

A (rare) autograph date (14.7.1715) confirms that the cantata Barmherziges Herze der ewigen Liebe was intended for the 4th Sunday after Trinitatis 1715. Like many Weimar cantatas, it is a decidedly ch...

Bach's first Leipzig New Year's cantata has only survived in fragments. Neither the autograph score nor the vocal score of the original source material have survived in full. This applies in particula...

In addition to the Mass in B minor, Bach is known to have composed four other, smaller masses, the so-called Lutheran or Kyrie Gloria masses. Despite their high musical qualities, they are often overs...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...

The Advent cantata Machet die Tore weit has long been one of Telemann's most frequently performed church music works. Among the manuscripts that transmit the cantata is an important testimony to the e...

The cantata Nun danket alle Gott cannot be assigned to any of Telemann's known cantata years. Its designation "Tempore Messis" in the title of the only surviving source suggests that it was composed o...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

The Trauer-Actus is probably the earliest work of the Grimma Telemann cantata complex. Its textual and musical structure suggests that the work was composed during Telemann's time as a pupil in Hildes...

In this work, one finds Mozart's Salzburg role models with regard to church music. The contrast between solo and tutti and the short imitative sections are reminiscent of Leopold Mozart, Eberlin and M...

In contrast to the two "Regina coeli" settings K. 74 and 127, which are scored for solo soprano and choir, Mozart uses the solo quartet in K. 276, which, similar to the Salzburg masses, often only dia...

With the festive offertory *Alma Dei creatoris* K. 277 (272a), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart created a masterful tribute to the Virgin Mary, radiating grace and sonic brilliance. Scored for soloists, mixed...

Of the vespers and vesper psalms that Mozart wrote for Salzburg Cathedral, the vesper parts "Dixit et Magnificat" are the earliest. Like the later complete vespers, they belong to the ecclesiastical a...

This Litany of the Virgin Mary is the first and simplest of the four litanies that Mozart composed in Salzburg in 1771-76. Due to the simple scoring - the trombone choir which joins the church trio on...

The litany consists of six movements, which are divided into nine differently characterized sections. It is clearly based on the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries.

contains: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) in C Confitebor (Ps 110) in e Beatus vir (Ps 111) in B Laudate pueri (Ps 112) in F Laudate Dominum (Ps 116) in A Magnificat in C