“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.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 169805
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 365498
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3518
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2800
for violoncello and organ
for: Cello, organ
Music score
Item no.: 755243
Mitten wir im Leben sind
Totentanz für Orgel und Percussion
for: Organ, percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 654884
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235424
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 367283
Original Works and Arrangements for Church Service and Concert
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), organ
Organ score, 4 solo parts (C/B-flat/E-flat/F) (anthology)
Item no.: 663354
for: Organ
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 648907
Motet
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 286087
for: 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 304944
Three songs from passion liturgy: Elegies/Lamentationes of Jeremiah
for: Voice (soprano), basso continuo
Score, part
Item no.: 206520
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 616653
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 383038
for: Organ
Score
Item no.: 179548
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score
Item no.: 329663
for: Organ
Item no.: 283707
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695811
Psalm 111
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 oboes, 2 string orchestras, 2 organs
Piano reduction
Item no.: 362011
for: Violin, basso continuo
Item no.: 561971
Mozarts Fragment mit den Ergänzungen von Joseph Eybler und Franz Xaver Süßmayr (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 196720
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 285251
Score
Item no.: 388611
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356951
for: Organ
Item no.: 429213
for: gemischten Chor (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 138887
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 429527
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 560280
for: GES-H KLAV,GES-M KLAV
Item no.: 657491
L'Organiste Liturgique 14
for: Organ manuals [harmonium]
Music score
Item no.: 638398
Heft 3: Pfingsten – Ende des Kirchenjahres
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 496508
Funeral motet
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 280492
for: Voice (soprano), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 660051
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 463633
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 728088
for: Sopran und Klavier (Orgel)
Music score
Item no.: 750565
for: Trumpet (B-flat), organ [piano]
Score, part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1841
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1813
for: 2 voices (medium) [choir (2 parts)]
Score
Item no.: 1725
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 558380
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Book
Item no.: 366334
for: Soprano and Strings
Set of parts
Item no.: 129267
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 247606
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 607119
for: 6 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 394591
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 6500
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 633348