“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: Organ
Score
Item no.: 179548
Denkmaeler Der Musik In Salzburg Bd 14
for: Violin, basso continuo
Item no.: 561971
Hymnus in adventu domini
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2800
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356951
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 285251
Motette eingerichtet für Blockflöten-Orchester
The Recorder Orchestra
for: Recorder orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 649702
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
Rarita Musicali
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169805
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 240020
Ascension - four symphonic meditations for organ
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 100817
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 100920
for: Trumpet
Score
Item no.: 240539
for: Organ
Item no.: 283707
Score
Item no.: 388611
a cappella
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616653
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 429527
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 367283
Choralvorspiel, BWV 645
Klaviertranskription von Feruccio Busoni
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3518
Suite d'Orchestre
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 648907
for: Organ
Item no.: 429213
9 Variationen und Finale
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 736455
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 286087
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383038
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422831
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235424
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765579
eingerichtet für Blockflötenquartett
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1813
aus: Geistlicher Harmonien Erster Theil, Dresden 1665
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 660051
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560280
Praeludium
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6500
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 670697
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 280492
Offertorium de Beata Maria Virgine
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463633
for: GES-H KLAV,GES-M KLAV
Item no.: 657491
Chants for Saint Ursula and 11,000 Virgins
for: Voice
Music score
Item no.: 296241
L'Organiste Liturgique 14
for: Organ manuals [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 638398
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 616841
for: SOLI GCH ORG (KLAV)
Score
Item no.: 223702
16-part Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 380350
Passion, Easter
Original works and arrangements for church service and concert
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), organ
Organ score, 4 solo parts (C/B-flat/E-flat/F) (anthology)
Item no.: 579912
Passionsmusik in sieben Teilen
Erstdruck
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 247606
for: Voice (bass), violin, basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 224800
Bicinium für zwei gleiche Stimmen
aus "Musae Sioniae", 9. Teil (Wolfenbüttel 1610)
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
for: 6 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 394591
ten-movement version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 151752
Twelve Variations in C major
with fingerings
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 192266
for: Voice [choir (one voice)], piano
Piano score
Item no.: 149704