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.
Kantate zum ersten Advent
BÄRENREITER URTEXT
for: Viola
Stimme, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 171621
Cantata for the First Sunday of Advent
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 280823
Chamaeleon - Musik Fuer Kinder
for: Children's choir, piano
Item no.: 372949
Drei Notenbücher
for: Piano, brass ensemble, latin percussion
Music score
Item no.: 660340
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 495259
Kantate zum 4. Advent HoWV II.7
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 580414
Collection of First Editions
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Organ manuals [harpsichord/piano]
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 475503
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 1652403
Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"
for: Horn (F), piano
Music score
Item no.: 740193
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 215278
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 660740
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 327909
for: CHORMUSIK GEMISCHTER CHOR MIT BEGLEITUNG GEISTLICH EINZELN
Score
Item no.: 364258
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 366290
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 565124
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 215944
for: Singstimmen (SSB), Orchester (3 Pommern TTB (3 Fagotte / 2 Violen, Violoncello), Basso continuo, [Instr. colla parte SSTTB])
Score
Item no.: 229812
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Score
Item no.: 187295
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 631779
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 314159
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 614090
for: 3-5-stimmiger gemischter Chor
Score
Item no.: 497343
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 476358
Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 750649
for: Children's choir, flute, organ
Score
Item no.: 119977
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 689307
for: Symphonic orchestra
25 Study scores, 25 CDs
Item no.: 684047
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1543638
Advent bis Pfingsten
Das neue Kompendium für haupt- und nebenberufliche Kirchenmusiker*innen
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 694159
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 5400
for: Organ
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 286058
Chorale from the Cantata No. 147 "Heart and Mouth and Deed and Life"
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 580036
for: 5 recorders (SAATB)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5694
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 244577
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 498606
for: Saxophone [clarinet], organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 1703650
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 577810
for: 3 voices (SST), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 397394
Partita für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 679583
for: Gemischter Chor 2 Trompeten, 2 POS
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246649
Phantasie im romantischen Stil
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1161897
for: MCH ORCH (ORG/KLAV)
Item no.: 368181
Choralfantasie für Streichsextett
for: String orchestra
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 661567
for: 5 Posaune, (FAG/VC)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 433711
Adventskantate
Edition Vieweg (Musikschätze vergangener Zeiten)
for: GES-M FL BC
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 1668441
Kantate zum 4. Advent (Rekonstruktion: Uwe Wolf)
Urform der späteren Fassung BWV 147, entstanden in Weimar
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 213791
Magdeburger Telemann Edition
for: Singstimme (S), 2 Violinen, Orgel, [gemischter Chor]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 456535
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