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.
Archivio Bossi
for: GES-H (S) VC ORG
Item no.: 339174
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 181460
Heft 1: Advent – Weihnachten
for: Organ (manuals)
Item no.: 496509
for: Mixed choir (SAM) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 672424
Advent and Christmas Cantatas
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), melody instrument, basso continuo
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 444379
12 Lieder für Advent, Weihnachten und Neujahr in leichten Sätzen
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 725997
for: SSA and Organ
Buch
Item no.: 259675
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733252
for: 5 soloists (SATBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 673455
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1845
100 well-known Christmas Songs to Sing and Play for Piano and two Melody parts ad libitum.
A Violoncello part is enclosed.
for: Piano; 2 voices [melodic instruments in C], cello ad lib.
Score, part
Item no.: 284819
for: 1–2 descant recorders; guitar/keyboard, voice ad lib.
Ensemble score
Item no.: 473699
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1479680
for: 3 saxophones (AAT)
Score
Item no.: 488218
G major
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 723608
Audio-CD
Item no.: 674679
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751303
for Saxophone Quartet
for: 4 saxophones (AATT/AATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 183970
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 488276
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 151630
for: Organ
Item no.: 287777
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 115956
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 279231
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 686554
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1819
Seasonal Music for Trumpet and Organ
for: Trumpet (C/B-flat), organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 920620
Fünf Choralsonaten, die sich jeweils mit einem großen Hauptthema befassen:
Advent, Weihnachten, Passion, Ostern und eine "sorbische Orgelsonate"
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 660468
op. 52/6
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750543
for: 3 Klarinetten (B/Es)
Music score
Item no.: 758675
for: GES-H (S) (1-2) ORG
Item no.: 362280
for: Vocal Score SATB
Piano reduction
Item no.: 317730
for: 2 cellos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 662682
for: Trumpet, piano
Item no.: 283195
for: Soloist (bass), vocal ensemble, 2 mixed choirs, boys’ choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 352739
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 370920
for: Mixed choir (6 voices), orchestra, basso continuo; soloists ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 634495
for: Voice (medium/low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1846
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 168830
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Sheet music
Item no.: 1163
15 famous Christmas Songs
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 737005
Choral from Cantata No. 147 BWV 147
arranged for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 123679
Feast of the Annunciation
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232692
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 336168
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 740049
for: Treble recorder, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733282
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 733265
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751347
for: Trumpet (B-flat), piano
Music score
Item no.: 751321