Beethoven

Choral music by Ludwig van Beethoven

In 2020 the music world will celebrate the anniversary of one of the most influential composers in the history of music: Ludwig van Beethoven. Many of his compositions are seminal works which have had a lasting influence on subsequent generations of artists. With the inclusion of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony as the very first composition in its "Memory of the World" World Heritage List, UNESCO has paid homage to this outstanding artistic personality at the beginning of the 21st century. The instrumental version of the last movement was officially adopted as the anthem of the European Union in the 1980s.

Beethoven himself regarded his Missa solemnis as his most important work. And he held his earlier setting of the mass, the Mass in C major, in high regard throughout his career. The work reveals a wealth of expression in the liturgical text which looked far beyond Beethoven’s time.


Beethoven vocal

With the Beethoven vocal project, Carus is making accessible Beethoven’s choral music. The two masses are available in modern Urtext editions, and for the final movement of the 9th Symphony a practical performing vocal score has been newly arranged. Many other choral works, including a Beethoven choral collection and his only oratorio "Christus am Ölberge", complete our vocal program. We offer practical support for rehearsing these major works with carus music, the choir app, or our practice CDs in the Carus Choir Coach series.


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Ludwig van Beethoven: Choral Collection Beethoven

With their extensive forces and complex parts, the performance of Beethoven's choral-symphonic works is hugely demanding for many choirs. For the major Beethoven anniversary in 2020 Carus has  therefore expanded the repertoire of works...

choral collection, conductor's score, with CD

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

Beethoven’s Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage) op. 112 for four-part mixed chorus and symphony orchestra – his setting of a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe – defies...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Elegiac Song

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Elegiac Song in memory of Eleonore Pasqualati, the wife of his long-standing friend and patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati zu Osterberg, who died young. The short choral piece, alternating between...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis

Beethoven repeatedly described the Missa solemnis as his greatest work, intended to affect and move people. His labor on the composition was long and intense; the work is not regarded as the most important mass setting of the 19th century in...

Compact Disc

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Mass in C major

With its tonal language of subjective avowal, the first of Beethoven’s two masses opens up new worlds of expression for the liturgical texts of the Mass which point towards the future. Not to be considered a preliminary work to the Missa...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: Missa solemnis

Beethoven described his Missa solemnis as his greatest work several times, a work which, coming "from the heart," was to touch and move audiences. The surviving sources enable us to recognize how intensively and how long he worked on the...

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Ludwig van Beethoven: The Mount of Olives

With its magnificent, almost operatic music, Christus am Ölberge ( The Mount of Olives ) is a different ­Passion oratorio which is definitely worth hearing and ­experiencing – and in this form it is without doubt unique in...

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  • Frieder Bernius about Beethovens Missa solemnis op. 123

    This film shows the making-of the CD-recording of the Missa solemnis by Ludwig van Beethoven with Frieder Bernius. Have a look!

  • And there are marvellous things to discover!

    A film with editor Jan Schumacher about the Choral Collection Beethoven.

  • A sacrilege or a stroke of genius? - Kyrie based on the Kyrie of the so-called "Moonlight Sonata"

    Gain an impression of this arrangement by Gottlob Benedict Bierey, who orchestrated the first movement of the famous "Moonlight Sonata" and added a four-part choral movement to it.

    What would Beethoven have said about that?

  • Beethoven vocal - Choral Music from Carus

    Take a look inside our Beethoven catalog!