“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.
Hymnus in adventu domini
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2800
Choralvorspiel, BWV 645
Klaviertranskription von Feruccio Busoni
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3518
9 Variationen und Finale
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 736455
Bicinium für zwei gleiche Stimmen
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil (Wolfenbüttel 1610)
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
for: Sopran und Klavier (Orgel)
Music score
Item no.: 750565
Praeludium
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6500
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1813
aus dem Oratorium "Der Messias"
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ [piano]
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1841
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 728088
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Sopran, Alt, Streicher und Basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 759127
for solo cello
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 752734
MH 213/1, für Chor und Basso continuo
aus: Responsoria ad quatuor Evangelia in Solemnitate Sanctissimi Corporis Christi
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Sheet music
Item no.: 2877
from 'Scenes of Childhood'
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 752831
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4184
aus "Polnisches Requiem"
for: Sopran solo, gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 734287
Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"
for: Streichquartett (Kontrabass ad libitum) oder Streichorchester
Score
Item no.: 752751
aus: "Sacrae Cantionies Quinis Vocibus Concinendae..."
Venezia, 1605
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4266
Toccata und Fuge
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6808
Concerto
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6528
from: Funeral Music for Queen Mary
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 4554
für 3 Blechbläser
for: 3 brass winds (trumpet 1 (C/B-flat), trumpet 2 [baritone horn/horn] (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), trombone [tuba] (C/B-flat))
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4048
for: 2 Soprane und Klavier (Orgel)
Single edition
Item no.: 750566
Easy Arrangement for Piano
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 740262
Choralvorspiele und Orgelchoräle Band 3: Ostern, Himmelfahrt, Pfingsten, Michaelis
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 726981
Meditation
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6522
aus der Kantate BWV 140
bearbeitet für Trompete (Klarinette) und Orgel
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2804
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 750380
SWV 372, aus: Geistliche Chor-Music
Dresden 1648
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), basso continuo; 5 melodic instruments (colla parte) ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 6379
Praeludium
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6521
Concerto
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6520
for Guitar solo
for: Guitar
Single edition
Item no.: 750804
A deux Voix, aus: „Leçons de Tenébres, Premier Jour“
Paris, 1714/1715
for: 2 voices (high), basso continuo
Score, choir scores, single parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5478
aus "Il sesto libro de madrigali" (1615)
for: 5 recorders (AATTB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1072
Choralbearbeitung, BWV 645
for: Trumpet (B-flat), horn (E-flat), trombone
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1058
Edition Schott
for: Soli (SA), gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Orgelauszug Orgelfassung zugleich Chorpartitur
Item no.: 760329
Edition Schott
for: Tenor-Blockflöte und Cembalo (Klavier)
Music score
Item no.: 734900
bearbeitet für Singstimme und Streichquartett
FWV 61
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4876
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742735
Versuch eines Requiems
for: Altstimme und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 748205
Psalms 23 and 102
for: gleiche Stimmen (SMezA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 751579
(„There's a music up in the frozen hills“)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6440
Welcome to all the pleasures
for: 5 Solostimmen, Chor, Streicher und Basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 743415
aus der Kantate "Himmelskönig, sei willkommen", BWV 182
bearbeitet für zwei Blockflöten und Orgel (Klavier)
for: 2 recorders (SA), organ [piano]
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2208
Choralbearbeitung, BWV 645
bearbeitet für 3 Gitarren
for: 3 guitars
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2402
eingerichtet für 2 Trompeten und 2 Posaunen
for: 2 trumpets (C/B-flat), 2 trombones (quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1808
WAB 17 (1848)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 4183
"Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir!"
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Sopran solo
Choir score
Item no.: 742520
Klagelieder Jeremias 1,5 - 6
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742740