“There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord.” 1 Corinthians 12:5
It’s not just birthdays we celebrate annually! Important events keep coming back year after year, in many forms, so that we can honour and appreciate them, and it is no wonder that religious festivals hold an important place in our calendars. Browse our sheet music and scores, we have music for all festive occasions, and click here to find out more about the church year.
Unlike the calendar year, the church year begins with Advent, and ends with what the Catholic Church calls Christ the King, and the Protestant Church calls Eternity Sunday, the Sunday before Advent. Religious festivals mirror nature: in the dark season of winter, Christ comes as a light into the world, in the spring, Easter celebrates the victory of life over death, and as autumn unfolds, the church commemorates transience and death.
Individual feast days, and days of remembrance are celebrated each year, including for Mary Mother of God, the Apostles, the Evangelists and the Saints, and events such as New Year and Thanksgiving, as well as the Festival of our Lord Jesus Christ. In recent years, some Sundays have been devoted to more familiar, secular topics, such as Family and World Mission. Festivals in the Reformed Churches differ slightly from those in the Catholic Church, they also assign "non-festive" Sundays, and they feature the "Wochenlied", the Main Song, or Song of the Week, which has a similar function to a traditional Anthem in other religious services.
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Oboe 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1610741
In honorem Beatae Mariae Virginis de Perpetuo Succursu
for: Women's choir (SA) [mixed choir (SATB)], organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1639151
(Antiphon zur Vesper am 3. Advent)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ score
Item no.: 1652406
Offertorium am Fest des Hl. Johannes des Täufers - für Solo-Sopran und gemischten Chor
Das Musikblatt
for: Singstimme (S), gemischter Chor
Score
Item no.: 388062
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 388055
Music score
Item no.: 386442
(1876/77)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343444
Begräbnismusik in drei Teilen für Singstimmen und Basso continuo
Stuttgarter Schütz-Ausgabe Urtext
for: 8 voices (SSAATTBB), organ, bass; mixed choir (SSATTB), 6 melody instruments colla parte ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 1105833
für die Osternacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish
Choir score
Item no.: 771421
Cantata for the 2nd day of Pentecost
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 684580
für Soli, gemischten Chor, 2 Oboen (Englischhörner), Streicher und Bc Hob. XXbis
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 674161
Trauermusik
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 661369
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 641943
Choral
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 470471
Funeral Anthem HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 601977
"Der für die Sünde der Welt gemarterte und sterbende Jesu"
based on the copy by J. S. Bach
Urtext Stuttgarter Händel-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 565446
Süßmayr-Version
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 564149
Die Geschichte des Leidens und Sterbens unseres Heilandes Jesu Christi nach der Beschreibung des Evanglisten Marcus HoWV I.10
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 772601
for: 2 GCH ORCH
Study score
Item no.: 347253
for: Voice (alto)
Item no.: 620572
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
Coro 1 - Viola
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 671878
Kantate zum 1. Pfingsttag
C-Dur BWV 172 (1714)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 656828
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Verkündigung
rev. 2017
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 772631
Cantata for Whit Sunday BWV 74
after the second setting by Bach
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 762736
Ein collagenartiges Werk, das Musik, Text und Tanz vereint
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), instruments
Choir score
Item no.: 694582
nach Johann Zach
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 234881
weitere Textquellen: "Von der Auferstehung Christi" Schade; "Ehre sei dem Vater allezeit" Erfurter Enchiridion, 1524
for: 5 voices (SSATB) [choir], orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234428
weitere Textquellen: "Von der Auferstehung Christi" Schade; "Ehre sei dem Vater allezeit" Erfurter Enchiridion, 1524
for: 5 voices (SSATB) [choir], orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234424
Gradualia I (1605)
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 648225
für vier Singstimmen a cappella
for: 4 voices
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609155
T, 5st gemischter Chor, SoloCh, 5st gemischter Chor, 2 Fl, Streicher,
Item no.: 563771
Psalm 24
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double bass, organ; 2 chapell choirs (SATB, SATB, SSATTB) ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 232116
Psalm 24
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double bass, organ; 2 chapell choirs (SATB, SATB, SSATTB) ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 232115
for: 2 favorit choirs (SSATB, SATB); 5 viole da gamba, double bass, organ ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 232083
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 230525
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 363086
Herr nun lässest du
Stimmensatz
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237416
aus: Lamentationes pro hebdomada sancta
for: Viola
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237255
aus: Lamentationes pro hebdomada sancta
for: Viola
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237254
Item no.: 383814
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 233045
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233043
Kantate zum Reformationsfest (in der Bearbeitung von Wilhelm Friedemann Bach)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230374
Choralkantate
Den Vokalstimmen wurde ein singbarer englischer Zweittext unterlegt.
for: Violin
Single part Violin
Item no.: 237843
Die Carus-Neuausgabe dieses Werkes enthält die Chorfuge Nr. 6, die in Mendelssohns Autograph zu finden ist und auch bei der Uraufführung musiziert wurde.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235399
enthält auch eine eigenständige Orgelbearbeitung
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237330
Symphonic version (1900)
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477311
Item no.: 610743