Free Nicolai sheet music
1 Nicolai score on Artform's shelf, ordered easiest to read first. Every score here is public domain, free to read, print and keep.
Open the sheet music libraryPhilipp Nicolai (1556-1608)
German Lutheran pastor and poet who wrote two of the greatest chorales, Wachet auf and Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern. He wrote them during a plague. Bach used them in his cantatas.
Start with these
The easiest Nicolai on the shelf, in order. Nothing here is graded and nobody is ranked: the shelf simply puts the pieces that ask less of your hands before the ones that ask more.
How the reader works
Each score opens as engraved notation you can read from the stand, and it plays: hear the piece first, then slow it down and loop the bar that is not working. There is nothing to install and no account to make. When you want paper, print it.
Every file is MusicXML, so MuseScore, Sibelius, Finale and Dorico open them too.
Where to go next
If you are learning Nicolai rather than only reading, the scale pages cover fingering in every key, the chord pages spell out every chord, and the symbol dictionary explains any mark on the page you do not recognise.