Choir Library

For its 300th anniversary, Breitkopf & Härtel is publishing ten volumes of choral music for all occasions and scorings. The individual works are sorted by genres and themes to facilitate the program selection for choral conductors and enable the usage of the collection as a basic repertoire for choral singers. The original notational image was preserved to allow the parallel use of the single editions that are still available separately.

The second volume in Breitkopf & Härtel's choral library shows a cross section of the men's choral repertoire in our publishing-house program. This genre, just beginning to be established around 1800, had already reached its great heyday by the middle of the 19th century. The founding of numerous new men's choruses inspired, for example, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and his sister Fanny Hensel to compose works in the secular and sacred sphere for this setting. The choral pieces by Jean Sibelius, Johann Nepomuk David, and Siegfried Thiele also included here show that men's choral singing also lived on beyond the Romantic era.