Haydn composed his Missa in B-flat major, also known as the “Harmony Mass” in 1802. It is the last of the six great mass settings, which forms the crowning glory of Haydn’s vocal music alongside “The Creation” and “The Seasons”.

Continuing ...

Saint-Saëns was a great admirer of the symphonic poems by Franz Liszt. His own symphonic poem “Danse macabre” reflects not only his affinity to medieval superstitions but also constitutes a tribute to Liszt’s “Totentanz”.

“Danse ...

Although Beethoven did not live to see the publication of his String Quartets op. 130 and op. 133, he oversaw the production process, making corrections and putting the works into their final form. The String Quartet op. 130 is the longest ...

Even by today’s standards, the Große Fuge is a complicated work and poses a challenge to performers. However it was the first work in music history to include a helpful addition: rehearsal numbers. These were included in the first edition ...

Although Beethoven did not live to see the publication of his String Quartets op. 130 and op. 133, he oversaw the production process, making corrections and putting the works into their final form. The String Quartet op. 130 is the longest ...

Even by today’s standards, the Große Fuge is a complicated work and poses a challenge to performers. However it was the first work in music history to include a helpful addition: rehearsal numbers. These were included in the first edition ...

– BA 5037-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged

– The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font

– The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition. ...

How practical: This choral masterpiece is now appearing in a handy and affordable soft-cover score to complement the substantial linen-bound complete edition volume.

The tried-and-tested musical text remains unchanged, whilst ...

With the premiere of Gluck’s “Alceste”, the “Burgtheater” Vienna reopened its doors, concluding a period of mourning that had been decreed following the death of Archduchess Maria Josepha.

Calzabigi’s inspiration for the libretto, ...

In late September 1874, shortly after losing his hearing, Smetana started work on “Vyšehrad”, the first symphonic poem in what would become a six-part cycle with the title “Má vlast” (My Country). It tells the eventful history of this ...

Nicklausse’s famous violin aria from the third act of “Les Contes d’Hoffmann” (“The Tales of Hoffmann”) by Jacques Offenbach is now available in a separate edition. It includes a vocal score as well as a chamber music arrangement with solo ...

This album for children (and teenagers) is intended for beginners on the snare drum. The short compositions with piano accompaniment have descriptive titles such as “The Caterpillar” or “The Grasshopper” in order to motivate the young musicians. ...

This album for children (and teenagers) is intended for beginners on the timpani. The short compositions with piano accompaniment have descriptive titles such as “Swings” or “The Climbing Frame” in order to motivate the young musicians. The ...

– BA 5037-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged

– The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font

– The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition. ...

“Stillae” was composed for the “Jugendkonzertchor der Chorakademie Dortmund” who won first prize in the “Mårten Jansson Choral Competition” in 2018. The American poet Charles Anthony Silvestri wrote the lyrics.

The poem is ...

Alongside the Urtext edition of Beethoven’s 35 piano sonatas which sets new standards for the 21st century, world-renowned Beethoven expert Jonathan Del Mar presents a Critical Commentary to this body of works.

With diligence and ...

Der von Aretha Franklin zusammen mit Ted White geschriebene Song erschien schon 1968, wurde aber erst richtig bekannt durch den Film Blues Brothers, in dem eine ganze Reihe von Rock-, Blues- und Soul-Legenden gefeiert wurden.

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„Männer sind untreu, Frauen falsche Schlangen,
Autos sind immer schon kaputt gegangen,
Kinder sind undankbar, Hunde korrupt,
Oft haben sich Freunde als Feinde entpuppt,
Aktien gehen oft in die Knie,
Nur Schuhe ...

Das italienische Lied „Bella Ciao” ist äußert populär und hat eine hundert Jahre alte Tradition. Leider sind die Urheber unbekannt. Der Text über Reispflückerinnen, zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts entstanden, erhielt ...

Vor nun schon über 50 Jahren erzählte David Bowie diese kleine Kuriosität im Weltraum: Ein Astronaut schwebt im All – er hat die Verbindung zur Erde verloren.

Als der Song 1969 kurz nach der ersten Mondladung veröffentlicht ...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unparalleled in terms of its philological ...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unparalleled in terms of its philological ...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unparalleled in terms of its philological ...

Following the critically acclaimed publication of the 35 Piano Sonatas in separate editions, Bärenreiter now presents Beethoven’s Complete Piano Sonatas in three volumes. This edition, which is unparalleled in terms of its philological ...

The edition contains French arias for soprano or mezzo-soprano from operas composed by opera reformer Christoph Willibald Gluck for the Paris Opera.

Each edition includes an informative text section containing a Foreword (Fr/Eng), ...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 76 and 77 Haydn composed Symphony No. 78 for a journey to England that never took place. Nonetheless, H. C. Robbins Landon referred to these works as the “English Symphonies” as they are stylistically closely linked ...

It was unmistakably Liszt’s piano piece “Les jeux d’eau à la Villa d’Este” that inspired Ravel to compose one of his most famous works in 1901: “Jeux d’eau”. Laid out in sonata form, its sound is governed by myriad motions of water and ...

„What's my name? Tell me, baby, what's my name…?“

„Sympathy for the Devil“ gilt als eines der bedeutendsten Stücke der Rolling Stones. Zuerst 1968 auf der LP „Beggars Banquet“ und dann 1974 als Single erschienen, schrieb es ...

„Ebony and Ivory live together in perfect harmony…“

Ebony and Ivory – Ebenholz und Elfenbein – sind Synonyme für Schwarz und Weiß. Als Klaviatur harmonieren sie perfekt miteinander, warum gelingt dies den Menschen nicht? ...

„Kleiner grauer Falter, du meidest den Tag, scheinbar magst du das Sonnenlicht nicht, kleiner grauer Falter, und trotzdem fliegst du, wenn es dunkel wird immer zum Licht…“

Komponiert hat das Stück Oliver Gies, den Text hat ...

„Das große Ziel war viel zu weit, für uns're Träume zu wenig Zeit, versuchen wir es wieder, solang' man Träume noch leben kann“

Die Band „Münchner Freiheit“ gilt als Wegbereiter der deutschsprachigen Popmusik. ...

Die Chorsängerinnen und -sänger werden das Stück lieben, gleichgültig ob sie selbst vor den großen Ferien stehen oder sich erinnern, wie es war, als 1972 der Song von Alice Cooper ein Hit war. „School’s out“ weckt ...

„I want to ride my bicycle
I want to ride it where I like“

Die Gruppe Queen mit ihrem charismatischen Frontmann Freddie Mercury und ihre Songs sind aktueller denn je. Nach wie vor werden die Stücke oft und gerne gespielt ...

In the space of a few months, in the autumn and winter of 1789, Mozart filled more than 650 pages of a score that shows practically no signs of mental or physical exertion. The result was one of his most profound operas, Così fan tutte ...

Mårten Jansson is internationally known, particularly for his masses; the Missa brevis in E-flat minor and the Missa Popularis are regularly performed in concert programmes.

The new Missa Brevis Arosiensis is stylistically ...

This Pronunciation Guide helps Japanese singers with the pronunciation of the German text in the “Finale” of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9. It includes the singing text in German, the international phonetic transcription, Japanese Katakana as ...

Special set price
(Set of BA 9009-90 (Beethoven Symphony No. 9 in D minor op. 125 – Vocal score) + BA 9009-14 (A Pronunciation Guide for Japanese Singers – Text booklet in Japanese)

The choral score of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s oratorio “Elijah” is based on the scholarly-critical edition edited by Mendelssohn specialist Douglass Seaton. In its 1847 version, this musical setting of the story of the Biblical prophet ...

The doomsday visions of Albrecht Dürer’s woodcut series “Apocalypse with Pictures” have inspired many composers to create musical representations of the pictured events. With “septimus angelus“, Philipp Maintz follows in this tradition. ...

In late 1821 Beethoven began work on his final piano sonata op. 111 which has been considered a towering masterwork ever since its publication. Thomas Mann gave it a literary monument in his novel “Doctor Faustus” in whose musical-theoretical ...

Our original edition of the Piano Sonatas op. 27 which includes the famous “Moonlight Sonata” (BA 10853, € 11.95) has now been made available for the Beethoven Anniversary Year 2020 in a limited print run with a special price of only € 3.00. ...

The main body of the new edition of Les Indes galantes, published in Opera Omnia Rameau (OOR IV.2, 7), restores the version authorised by Rameau in 1736. This basic editorial decision has made it possible to present a fully coherent and authenticated ...

The present volume of the Bohuslav Martinu Complete Edition (BMCE) contains two vocal-instrumental works. The “Field Mass” (1939) with a text by Jirí Mucha incorporating bible and liturgy quotes was created in reaction to the outbreak ...

Adam Michna z Otradovic (approx. 1600–1676) composed his song collection „The Czech Lute“ in 1653. It includes 13 strophic songs, each introduced by an instrumental ritornello. This cycle marks the first instance of the ritornello song in the ...

William Byrd is one of the great English composers of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Today this creative Catholic at the Anglican court of Elisabeth I is known primarily for his masses, motets and madrigals. However, in addition to ...

Beethoven often incorporated musical influences from other countries in his works. Jean Kleeb has picked up on this idea and developed it further in these arrangements for piano solo. In his tributes to Beethoven he emphasizes ethnic attributes ...

Owing to severe illness, Beethoven had to wait for over a year after completing op. 109 before beginning work on the second piece in his triptych of late sonatas: the Piano Sonata in A-flat major op. 110. The initial sketches date from summer ...

Frescobaldi's music had a formative impact on composers such as Froberger, Buxtehude, Couperin and Bach. He stands alongside Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck as the leading keyboard composer of the early 17th century. Bärenreiter’s Urtext edition ...

This children’s album by renowned Czech composer-guitarist Lukáš Sommer reflects the latest trends in playing and teaching the guitar. It is suitable for the first three years of lessons. Some of the pieces have even been performed by ...

Billie Holiday hat eine große Zahl bekannter und sehr bekannter Jazzstandards eingesungen. Das besondere an diesem Song ist, dass sie ihn zwar selbst geschrieben, aber nie auf Platte gebracht hat. Auch von anderen Interpreten ist kaum ...

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did not leave us a definitive version either ...

This edition contains three cello compositions by Luboš Fišer: Sonata for Violoncello and Piano (1975), Sonata for two Violoncellos and Piano (1980), and Sonata for Violoncello solo (1985-1986).

Luboš Fišer was a remarkable personality ...

In ancient times, language and music were already regarded as an inseparable unit. Homer’s epic poems, for example, were sung, and in the highly developed art of rhetoric, words were used to communicate reason, while music spoke to the soul. ...

The publication of the fourth volume concludes the New Edition of the Complete Organ Works by Hugo Distler. The organ partita “Jesus Christus, unser Heiland“ is already available in a shorter version (Choral – Bicinium – Ricercare und Satz, ...

Christmas is a joyful time: presents under the tree, seeing friends and relatives, the wonderful smell of cookies and much more. Christmas is also a time for making music. Song and sound play an important role in creating a Christmas atmosphere. ...

Along with Symphonies Nos. 80 and 81, Haydn’s Symphony in F major Hob. I:79 belongs to a group of works that he composed in late 1784. He wrote them for his employer Prince Nikolaus Esterházy who wished to be entertained with new music. ...

This pioneering edition of Jean Barraqué’s “Sonate pour piano” (1950–52) is the first to present this masterpiece from the heyday of serialism in a scholarly-critical Urtext edition.

The new edition offers a consistent musical ...

The Czech composer Zdenek Fibich (1850–1900) had a keen interest in classical German literature. It therefore comes as no surprise that he had already set songs to texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe while still a student at the Leipzig Conservatory. ...

Mozart’s Serenade No. 13 in G major for Strings K. 525 has become world-famous under the entry he made in his personal catalogue of works: “Eine kleine Nachtmusik”. Though normally performed by a string ensemble, Roman Kim plays its first movement ...

Dvorák composed the “Slavonic Rhapsodies” op. 45 in 1878, launching his so-called “Slavonic period”. When they were issued by the publisher Simrock the following year, these three self-contained orchestral pieces in D major, G minor ...

Dvorák composed the “Slavonic Rhapsodies” op. 45 in 1878, launching his so-called “Slavonic period”. When they were issued by the publisher Simrock the following year, these three self-contained orchestral pieces in D major, G minor ...

Dvorák composed the “Slavonic Rhapsodies” op. 45 in 1878, launching his so-called “Slavonic period”. When they were issued by the publisher Simrock the following year, these three self-contained orchestral pieces in D major, G minor ...

This little notebook is handsome as well as practical. The cover is in Bärenreiter‘s attractive Beethoven-aubergine. The notebook has the same layout as our Urtext editions. The pages alternate with musical staves on the left and writing ...

Beethoven and Bärenreiter – a marriage made in heaven! It all started in 1996 with Symphony No. 9: Jonathan Del Mar’s groundbreaking edition of this masterpiece marked the beginning of his new edition of the complete nine symphonies. They ...

Due to numerous customer requests, Bärenreiter will be successively offering vocal scores to major Mozart operas in hardback editions again. This means you now have the choice: perhaps you prefer a lower-priced and slightly lighter soft-cover ...

Haydn’s Mass in B-flat major, also known as the “Creation Mass” was composed in 1801. It is one of the six great Mass settings that forms the crowning glory of his vocal music along with “The Creation” and “The Seasons”.

Continuing ...

Franz Schubert's “Stabat Mater” D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental.

This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer’s autograph full score. Unlike its ...

Franz Schubert's “Stabat Mater” D 175 is one of a number of church works that he wrote for his local congregation in Lichtental.

This edition is based on the sole surviving source, the composer’s autograph full score. Unlike its ...

This edition of Franz Schubert’s “Magnificat” D 486 is based on the composer’s autograph score and is the first to make use of his authorised performance material. It offers alternative readings that make the performance practice of Schubert’s ...

This edition of Franz Schubert’s “Magnificat” D 486 is based on the composer’s autograph score and is the first to make use of his authorised performance material. It offers alternative readings that make the performance practice of Schubert’s ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of “La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of “Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of “L’Estro Armonico” op. 3. Their publication had to wait until 1716, when Estienne ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of “La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of “Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of “L’Estro Armonico” op. 3. Their publication had to wait until 1716, when Estienne ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of “La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of “Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of “L’Estro Armonico” op. 3. Their publication had to wait until 1716, when Estienne ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s twelve concertos op. 4 known by the name of “La Stravaganza” were first mentioned as a collection of “Concerti a 4” in the 1711 Foreword of “L’Estro Armonico” op. 3. Their publication had to wait until 1716, when Estienne ...

Diese Sammlung steht unter dem Motto des Paderborner Chorfestivals „Unsere Quelle bist Du“. Sie enthält Motetten, geistliche Lieder, Wechselgesänge sowie Kanons in verschiedenen Sprachen und Besetzungen. Stücke für die Messfeier ...

Beethoven described his grandly conceived “Missa solemnis” as “my greatest work” and sold manuscript copies to some of the subscribers even before it had appeared in print.

This Urtext edition takes into account all the sources ...

Beethoven described his grandly conceived “Missa solemnis” as “my greatest work” and sold manuscript copies to some of the subscribers even before it had appeared in print.

This Urtext edition takes into account all the sources ...

The “New World” Symphony, a jewel of the symphonic repertoire, is finally available in a dependable scholarly-critical edition.

Yet again Jonathan Del Mar has managed to untangle a complex network of surviving sources, some of ...

Henry Eccles left behind a number of smaller works most of which were written for violins or flutes. However, the most famous is this Sonata in G minor. Though often played in transcription by violinists and especially by double bass players, ...

Edmund Severn (1862–1942) was an American composer and violinist. Born in England, he studied in various cities including Berlin and composed works for unaccompanied violin, orchestra and string quartet.

“Polish Dance” is his ...

Beethoven’s final three piano sonatas have always been a source of great fascination. Composed in 1820, the Sonata op. 109 opened the door to the future with its extreme expressivity, its abandonment of traditional techniques and its radical ...

With a clever play on the words “Ancient Modes”, Graham Buckland presents eight character pieces for piano duet which effectively portray various mythical modes of transport and at the same time are based on church modes.

The transport ...

When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the “Slavonic” style, quickly achieved international renown ...

Are studies meant only for practicing? This album of 30 short pieces with original names and amusing illustrations by Andrea Tachezy proves that studies are in no way boring. The edition covers all the keys, with each study solving a specific ...

The “Twelve Duets for two Violoncellos” by renowned Czech composer Jirí Pauer (1919–2007) captivate with their harmonic and timbral combinations and their dramatic expression.

These moderately difficult pieces are ideal ...

When Antonín Dvorák started composing his String Quartet No. 10 in late 1878, none of his quartets had yet been performed. However this new work, deliberately cast in the “Slavonic” style, quickly achieved international renown ...

“In this work I gave everything I had to give. […] What I did here I will never do again”. (Camille Saint-Saëns)

Camille Saint-Saëns was justifiably proud of his Symphony No. 3 dedicated to the memory of Franz Liszt. ...