This edition contains all the chorales by Johann Sebastian Bach with and without obbligato instruments and presented with the original German text. Most come from Bach's cantatas, passions, oratorios, and
With his Hebrew Choral Songbook, Ohad Stolarz presents a new collection of classics of the musical repertoire in Hebrew, arranged by him for mixed choir a cappella. Many of these pieces are published in
Based on Yiddish songs from the Central and Eastern European Jewish tradition, these six settings are equally traditional and modern, employing Western and Eastern harmonic devices as well as harmonic ideas
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This cantata for the first Whitsun holiday is based on a text by Johann Christoph Wentzel (1659–1723). The yearly volume in which it appears dates to August 4, 1703, and is dedicated to, among others,
The Choir Library for Men’s Choir includes distinctly more secular than sacred music. In this, the publishing house’s program reflects the great tradition of men’s choirs with a
An invaluable choral collection of German secular repertoire for mixed choirs. This softcover edition from Breitkopf & Hartel features over 300 pages of choral literature from Brahms, Mendelssohn,
The enormous range of publications for mixed choir is published in the Choir Library in separate volumes for secular and sacred repertoire. The sacred part comprises five volumes, the first three
The Choir Library for Women’s and Children’s Choir invites browsing and discovering: Apart from Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert, also lesser known composers like
Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Choral Fantasia, op. 80 for the gigantic concert event that took place at the Theater an der Vien on December 22, 1808. It was given as the closing work, albeit without the
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Combining a piano concerto and a cantata in one work is an undertaking that requires true mastery. Ludwig van Beethoven succeeded in this with his Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op.
This mixed chorale cantata sets the first and last verses of the corresponding Luther chorale verbatim, but the other movements are free poetry based on the content of the chorale. The time of composition
In the case of the oratorio Christus am Olberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Breitkopf & Haertel can finally make amends to Beethoven for a slight committed more than 200 years ago. As
One of Bach's most celebrated choral works is presented here with the original German text and a singable English version in an Urtext edition for soloists, choir and orchestra. For the composition of the
Bach's chorales have become standard for all serious students of both music theory and choral singing. As early as 15 years after his death, published editions of his collected chorales began to circulate,
With regard to the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, this version for solos, choir and organ by Torsten Sterzik originated to pave the Reformation Symphony's way into the church as well, restoring the
These four quartets op. 92 were composed in 1884 during Brahms' summer stay in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. The opening piece, however, was a revision of an earlier vocal quartet composed in 1877. Brahms had
A 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,
This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich