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: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 484907
Transcriptions for piano four hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 563496
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491890
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 494782
for: Alto saxophone, organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2810
for: Organ
Item no.: 582204
for: Violin [oboe], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1836
Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - 6th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285540
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 137061
for: Clarinet
Music score, CD
Item no.: 370845
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 423067
Eine Kantate für: Tenor-Solo, gemischten Chor, KInderchor, Klavier, Streicher, Schlagzeug und Orgel
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242954
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 464812
Kantate zum 26. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Umarbeitung einer Adventskantate aus dem Jahr 1716 BWV 70a; heute verschollen
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 233172
Distinguished Choral Music
for: gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 759329
Stuttgarter Capricornus Ausgabe 38
for: GES-T (B) VL FAG BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 490220
op. 55
Choralfantasien für Gottesdienst und Konzert
Leicht spielbar – pfiffig – eng am Text
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1479681
Organ Chorales from Miscellaneous Sources
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 482113
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1412
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 582464
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SINGSTIMME MIT TASTENINSTRUMENT
Item no.: 143121
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 295460
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4766
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3554
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 659209
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 116764
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 233049
for: Mixed choir (SATB); organ ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 422069
Neue Orgelpräludien und Begleitsätze zu ausgewählten Kirchenliedern
ortus organum 21
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1023699
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1835
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 344536
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 2385
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1106
Organ Works, Volume 1
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 115980
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction, choir score (pdf download)
Item no.: 3027
for: Horn (F), organ
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2974
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 113524
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 566164
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat), organ [piano]
Sheet music, audio file
Item no.: 1411
9 Variationen und Finale
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 736455
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2800
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3518
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 648907
Nur zusammen mit den Chorstimmen lieferbar!
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ score
Item no.: 603645
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 679950
über "Maria durch ein Dornwald ging" op. 45
for: Piano [harpsichord/organ]
Music score
Item no.: 485145
for: Organ
Item no.: 310848
Twelve Variations in C major
with fingerings
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 192266