Along with the many festive and sweet Advent customs, there are also joyous musical Advent traditions, such as coming together to sing The Great Advent Antiphons, and the highly popular combination of chocolate, cinnamon, and music known as the feast of Saint Nicholas. Browse our sheet music and scores, and find all the right music for Advent today!
Originally, Advent was significantly longer than today, it lasted from Saint Martin to the feast of the Epiphany. The current order, with four Sundays, was established in the 6th century by Pope Gregory the Great, after whom Gregorian chant is named. Each Advent Sunday has its own character, which differs a little in the Catholic and Protestant churches.
Advent music is strongly influenced by the fact that Advent was considered a “tempus clausum”, a “closed time”, in which lavish celebrations were forbidden, and it was for this reason that Johann Sebastian Bach was not allowed to perform all of his Advent Cantatas in Leipzig.
for: Soli SA, gemischter Chor (SATB), Orgel
Score
Item no.: 1671124
for: Soloist (bass), trumpet, 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 1012593
for: Trumpet, organ
Buch
Item no.: 147116
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 681130
for: Brass ensemble
Item no.: 1703946
for: Small wind band
Piano score (conductor)
Item no.: 178079
Sleepers, wake
for: 3 Soli, Chor und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 755953
Variations (from the first edition 1884)
for: 4 violins
Set of parts
Item no.: 749986
aus den Kryptogrammen Gesualdo und Jürg Baur
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 738091
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano [organ]
Score
Item no.: 477471
for: 3 Singstimmen, Klavier, Instrument ad libitum
Score
Item no.: 1337102
mit leichten Originalstücken und Bearbeitungen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 761065
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 245066
for: BL (ORG)
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 262027
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 297691
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 633928
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 112128
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 482171
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 297694
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565127
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 315070
for: Organ
Organ score
Item no.: 473187
Hugo Distler. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Orgelwerke 1 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 384958
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316692
Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750787
for: 2 trumpets (B-flat), horn (F), trombone, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 813529
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 484991
for: Gemischter Chor (ATB), Violinen (2), Basso continuo (Cello, Kontrabass, Fagott)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 115109
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 114932
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285526
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 584803
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204835
for: Cello, Kontrabass
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 171624
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117576
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 601875
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745495
Cantata for the Second Advent TVWV 1:301
Bäreneiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 426104
for: Cembalo, Orgel
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 646348
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 909123
for: 2 Singstimmen (S/A) oder Kinderchor (Frauenchor) und Orgel
Item no.: 564265
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 630956
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 392577
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114790
for: 4 violins
Set of parts
Item no.: 127589
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 200115
Adventskantate
for: Soloist, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 1660662
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 752151
for: Trombone, organ
Item no.: 595471