“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.
Ostermotette
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 658884
Passions-Oratorium (vermutlich 1847)
Neuausgabe
for: 6 soloists (SATTBB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), strings, timpani
Set of parts
Item no.: 768592
Kantate zum 1. Pfingsttag
Ausgabe nach der 1. Fassung; Entstehung evtl. früher, Niederschrift spätestens zu Pfingsten 1723
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233012
for: Organ
Item no.: 176807
Das Deutsche Kirchenlied. Kritische Gesamtausgabe der Melodien II/1
for: Voice
Gesamtausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 376148
for: Women's choir, organ
Item no.: 292405
Holy Week
for: Voice
Music score
Item no.: 612012
Passionsoratorium von Barthold Heinrich Brockes
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musikalische Werke 34
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 610949
Kantante zum ersten Pfingsttag
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 621700
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422486
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 2
Bläserstimmen (kompletter Satz)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 670425
nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift
op. 45
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 660251
Kantate zum 1. Ostertag
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Sopran solo, Alt solo, Tenor solo, Bass solo, Gemischter Chor (SATB), Zink (ad libitum), Posaunen (3) (ad libitum), Basso continuo, Orgel, Violinen (2), Violen (2)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 189980
Johann Sebastian Bach. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke (NBA) II/9
for: Choir, orchestra
Gesamtausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 634126
für Soli, gem Chor und Orgel (dt/lat)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 630779
Das Chorwerk
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 146857
Ein Requiem für Else Lasker-Schüler
for: für Sopran und Klavier
Item no.: 247374
Folge 7
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 114890
D 948
Partitur
for: Soli (TTB), Männerchor (TTB), [2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 2 Hörner, 2 Trompeten, 3 Posaunen]
Score
Item no.: 238072
Marienantiphon
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 235013
Schütz-Gesamteinspielung, Band 13
Audio-CD
Item no.: 677165
for unaccompanied chorus (SATB)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 675385
Letztfassung des Werkes
nach Worten der Bibel und des Gesangbuchs
for: Three mixed choirs (SATB, SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 229918
for: Organ
Item no.: 279190
38 Sätze zum Kirchenjahr und für die Trauerfeier
for: 2–4 melodic instruments
Item no.: 279167
Musik Aus Ostbayern 65
for: SOLI (SATB) 2 VL BC
Score
Item no.: 272081
Pflichtstück des Internationalen KammerchorWettbewerbs Marktoberdorf, Pfingsten 2003
for: Mixed choir (SAATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 271724
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 135232
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 226191
Kantate zum 4. Advent (Rekonstruktion: Uwe Wolf)
Urform der späteren Fassung BWV 147, entstanden in Weimar
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 213791
HWV 76
Partitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 209455
for: GCH (SATB/SSAATTBB) ORG
Score
Item no.: 145386
aus: Symphoniae Sacrae I
mit singbarem deutschem Text
for: Voice (bass), 2 violins, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 424645
aus: Responsoria in Coena Domini
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 423043
S 44
Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422876
Marianische Antiphon
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 366040
Sequenza
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 347313
aus: Kleine geistliche Konzerte II
mit singbarer englischer Übersetzung
for: Soli / Chor SSB, Orgel
Score
Item no.: 344539
aus: Drei lateinische Hymnen
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Score
Item no.: 342869
De profundis
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423701
for: Male choir (TTB), piano
Score
Item no.: 423610
Johann Sebastian Bachs 'h-Moll-Messe' und 'Johannes-Passion'
Folkwang Studien 20
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 772648
from the Requiem
for: Alto trombone, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 596504
"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
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1659347
"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
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1658687
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1655593
op. posth.
Bearbeitung für Soli, Chor und Orgel
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 605254
for: 2 GES-H (SS) ORCH
Score
Item no.: 582196