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.
Motette über den Choral zum Totensonntag, Nr. 6 aus Geistliche Chormusik op. 12/6
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 114790
Chorfantasie für 12-stimmigen gemischten Chor
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 117576
Kantate zum ersten Advent
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Cello, Kontrabass
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 171624
Variationen (nach der Erstausgabe von 1884)op. 161
for: 4 violins
Set of parts
Item no.: 127589
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285526
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Cembalo, Orgel
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 646348
Liedmotette
for: Mixed choir (SATBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 745495
"Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
Musik des Barock und Rokoko Nr. 6
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 200115
Choral aus der Kantate Nr. 147 "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben"BWV 147
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 584803
Ein Chorbuch für den Musikunterricht an Gymnasien
Chor aktuell
for: Mixed youth choir a cappella
Choir book (anthology)
Item no.: 118226
Cantata for the Second Advent TVWV 1:301
Bäreneiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 426104
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 488595
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung (Leipziger Fassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 497394
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565127
Motette zum 2. Advent
aus: Liber primus cantionem sacrarum, Löwen 1609
for: Mixed choir (ATTB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 6340
Choralbearbeitung, BWV 645
for: Clarinet (B-flat), alto saxophone, bassoon
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1105
Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724487
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 731610
Responsorium zur Vesper am 1. Advent (Sacharja 14,5-6; Judas 14)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 734125
Item no.: 1654073
16 bekende Sinterklaasliedjes voor twee violen
for: 2 violins
Ensemble score
Item no.: 499158
Eight pieces for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1669230
"Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern"
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 724662
für gem Chor, Querflöte und Klavier
for: Mixed choir (SATB), flute, piano
Score
Item no.: 1656995
für Frauenchor, Querflöte und Klavier
Score
Item no.: 1656998
für Frauenchor, Querflöte und Klavier
Choir score
Item no.: 1657000
Gemeindelied im Chor
Gotteslob Nr. 731
Evangelisches Gesangbuch Nr. 10
for: Mixed choir (SATB), the parish, organ
Choir score (for the parish)
Item no.: 649755
für vier Violoncelli
nach zwei Sätzen aus der Kantate BWV 140
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 682175
Come Thou of man the Saviour (1st version)
for: 3 Solostimmen, Chor und Orchester
Study score
Item no.: 735792
für Gesang, Melodieinstrument und Begleitinstrument
Score, Parts
Item no.: 627495
Edition Schott
for: Soli (SAT), gemischter Chor (SATB), Klavier (Orgel), Melodieinstrument und Gemeinde
Choir score
Item no.: 726152
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 724667
für Violine, Viola und Violoncello Partitur und Stimmen
for: Violin, viola, cello (string trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 638039
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1043357
Kantate Nr. 2 zum dritten Sonntag im Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 660108
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 626279
for: 5 brass winds
Item no.: 579325
Die kleine Kantate zur Adventszeit
for: Narrator, 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra; children's choir ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 244844
Adventskantate
for: Soloist, mixed choir, orchestra
Choir score
Item no.: 243538
for: Gemischter Chor, Streicher, (Orgel)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 433600
for: Viola da gamba
Item no.: 443258
Adventskantate
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: Voice (high), treble recorder, basso continuo
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 125283
Geistliche Gesangsmusik 13
Organum 1
for: Voice (soprano), string orchestra, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 408251
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 602131
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 348669
Rorate coeli desuper
Missa Nr. 3 in G
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 236553
for: Organ
Item no.: 147434
freie Bearbeitung nach dem Kantatensatz BWV 140 No. 4 und dem Orgelchoral BWV 645
for: Horn / Oboe / Trompete, Violine, Viola, Basso continuo
Score, Parts
Item no.: 279172
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