“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.
BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023400
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1063572
for: 4 trumpets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1068833
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1012323
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1011108
for: Clarinet Octet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1091093
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 829169
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296939
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949542
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1017903
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1013289
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 1105626
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1138528
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 843074
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 957175
Overture
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749226
op. 77
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 780299
Waltz of the flowers
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 792237
for: Gitarrenduo
Score
Item no.: 412928
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Item no.: 130893
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 126131
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204737
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 1007066
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1032093
for: Voice (low)
Book
Item no.: 457139
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428937
for: Mixed Choir [SATB] A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 471556
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 358902
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 358818
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 914739
for: String Orchestra and opt.Violin or Viola and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 914381
for: Piano
Item no.: 305419
for: String orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1689230
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 1620625
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 287967
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1539922
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 357313
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 863734
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647233
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 191867
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1211703
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1105748
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1672773
24 Pieces Faciles A La Schumann Op39
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1137441
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1142922
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1138835
Kendor Archive Editions
for: Jazz ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1162161
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1105191