“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949451
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 962619
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1000095
for: Fanfare
Score
Item no.: 1000041
for: Orchesterwerke Sinfonien
Book
Item no.: 1204659
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367089
Lyric book
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for: Streichorchester, Violoncello
Book
Item no.: 1204478
for: Bühnenwerke Ballette
Book
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 283718
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Eb Saxophone
Buch
Item no.: 912572
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 358777
for: 2 violins, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 780525
bearbeitet für Violine Solo, alternativ Viola Solo, Klarinette in B, Marimba und Orchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817758
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430015
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430674
for stringed instrument and piano viola part
for: Solo Streicher und Klavier
Single part Viola
Item no.: 656657
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 126334
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430669
bearbeitet für Violine Solo, alternativ Viola Solo, Klarinette in B, Marimba und Orchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Single part marimba
Item no.: 817755
Single part
Item no.: 126337
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 126137
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430095
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 561614
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430705
bearbeitet für Violine Solo, alternativ Viola Solo, Klarinette in B, Marimba und Orchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Single part (Viola solo)
Item no.: 817753
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430040
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Bass instrument
Item no.: 561608
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
Item no.: 561604
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430676
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 561611
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 2
Item no.: 561605
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3, 4
Item no.: 126335
für Streichorchester
op. 48
for: String orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1646565
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430680
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430688
Single part
Item no.: 126136
for: Orchester (2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 2 Hörner, 2 Trompeten, Posaune, Pauken, Piatti, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, [Kontrabass]
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 424814
for: Orchester (2 Oboen, 2 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 2 Hörner, 2 Trompeten, Posaune, Pauken, Piatti, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, [Kontrabass]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424811
für Streichorchester
op. 48
for: String orchestra
Single part Cello
Item no.: 1646562
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1664472
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1664470
bearbeitet für Violine Solo, alternativ Viola Solo, Klarinette in B, Marimba und Orchester
for: Chamber orchestra
Flute 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817757
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 3
Item no.: 126134