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.
sur des thèmes grégoriens
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 484907
Transcriptions for piano four hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 563496
aus "The Strathclyde Motets"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 491890
für gem Chor a cappella Singpartitur
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
Choral Nr. 6 und Nr. 10 der Kantate BWV 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 464812
op. 55
Choralfantasien für Gottesdienst und Konzert
Leicht spielbar – pfiffig – eng am Text
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1479681
Manuals Only
for: Organ (manuals)
Music score
Item no.: 582464
Ausgabe für den Stammteil
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 659209
Choral aus der Kantate Nr. 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 566164
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
Lied der Region
Songbook
Item no.: 246173
for piano four hands
from the Cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 612090
für Soloinstrument in C (B) und Orgel
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat), organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 662126
for: Organ
Organ score
Item no.: 1023879
for: Piano
Item no.: 420049
Advent
Vorspiele, Präludien, Meditationen, Concerti
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 772531
Complete Organ Works (Urtext Edition)
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487140
Cantata for the 1st Sunday in Advent
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
– Graduated price on request –
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1670429
Cantata for the 10th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 232964
Cantata for the first Advent
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285455
Eine Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 616315
for mixed choir (SABar) and Organ
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 617354
in G-Dur
TVWV 9:18
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 671647
Choral Nr. 6 und Nr. 10 der Kantate BWV 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"
Orgelpartitur für eine Aufführung ohne Orchester
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo; oboe ad lib.
Organ score
Item no.: 279254
Cantata for the Feast of Visitation B. V. M.
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 137089
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1549591
for: Violin
Music score, CD
Item no.: 425902
Cantata for the 1st Sunday in Advent
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 663105
Come Thou the world's Redeemer
Kantate (1. Advent)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285456
TVWV 1:1178; Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 422180
Die schönsten klassischen Meisterwerke
Das Promenadenkonzert
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1677033
Choralvorspiel für Orgel
Schübler-Choral Nr. 1
Hochzeitsmusik für Orgel 11
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 298470
for: 4 clarinets
Item no.: 579326
Geistliche Chorsätze
früher Chorbuch 1985
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [organ]
Choir score
Item no.: 154272
Phantasie über den Choral
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 661344
140. kantáta "Wachet auf"
EMB Study Scores
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Study score
Item no.: 256679
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 233046
Aus der Reihe "New Horizons"
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670900
Ruf vor dem Evangelium
for: Voice, organ
Choir book
Item no.: 663833
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401131
für Sopransaxophon (Klarinette) und Orgel
for: Saxophone [clarinet], organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 662152
Nr 1 aus: Vier Adventsmotetten nach Gregorianischen Motiven
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1654034
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 413562
Rorate coeli desuper
Missa Nr. 3 in G
for: Gemischter Chor (SATB), Orchester (2 Violinen, Violoncello / Kontrabass, Orgel)
Score
Item no.: 236551
für flexibles Ensemble
(Stimmen als PDF zum Ausdrucken auf DVD)
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Solo part(s), DVD
Item no.: 1664195
Weihnachtsheft für 4-6 stimmigen
Belchbläserchor
for: KAMMERMUSIK BLECHBLASINSTRUMENTE SEXTETTE
Item no.: 1658635