“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.
Score
Item no.: 390264
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565543
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 330887
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 582505
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560282
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), 1-2 Trompeten, 3-2 Posaunen, Orgel, [Pauken]
Score
Item no.: 235638
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667562
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 750381
Edition Schott
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orgel
Choir score
Item no.: 741497
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 2978
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 5298
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4576
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo; 3 trombones, strings ad lib.
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1716
Vier Kontrabässe
for: 4 double basses (double bass quartet)
Item no.: 188444
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 328216
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658385
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 142054
Walton Choral
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 493521
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 556472
G major
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 724660
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4532
Neue Orgelpräludien und Begleitsätze zu ausgewählten Kirchenliedern
ortus organum 21
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1023699
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 300342
for: Voice, piano [guitar/keyboard]
Music score, CD
Item no.: 442547
for: Gesang, Gemischter Chor, Orchester
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116591
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 285159
New Bach Edition (NBA). II/4
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139655
for: 2 Singstimmen (SMEZZ) gemischter Chor ORCH
Score
Item no.: 379395
for: Piano 4 hands
Spielpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117713
for: 3 Cellos and Piano
Book
Item no.: 629097
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 214092
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285500
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 696367
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3368
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 631323
for: Voice (medium/low), organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 1546
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 497419
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ [piano]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 210097
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 1160542
for: Piano, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 145643
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 428835
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1565195
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192705
for: Trumpet (B-flat) [clarinet], piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1835
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 356319
for Solo Voices, Choir and Orchestra
Mozarts Fragment completed by Franz Xaver Süßmayr
New edition based on original sources
KV 626 / SmWV 105
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432925
Volume 6: Chorale Fantasias
Breitkopf Urtext on the basis of the Reger Complete Edition
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286016
für (Mezzo-)Sopran und B.c. (komplett) (complete)
for: GES-M BC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 278583