“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: 2 pianos
Music score
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Music score
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Book
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Book
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for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
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Promenade, Il Vecchio Castello, Promenade, Ballet Des Poussins Dans Leur Coque
for: Wind Ensemble and Piano
Score, Parts
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4. Finale
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Klassik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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March
Vzyatiye Karsa
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 862
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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From Sadko
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Score, Set of parts
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für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: BLECH ENSEMBLE SCHLAGZ
Score, Parts
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aus dem Streichquartett Nr. 1
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
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Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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From Orchestral Suite No. 1 In D Major, Op. 43
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
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A musical fairy tale
for: Narrator, concert band
Score, Parts
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aus Bilder einer Ausstellung
for: Cello, harp [piano]
Score, Parts
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(The Snow Maiden)
Incidental music for the play by Alexander Ostrovsky
Repertoire Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Electric organ
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reduzierte Besetzung
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Set of parts
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for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
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über russische Themen
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
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for: Clarinet
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Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
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Goodmusic Concert Classics
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Score, Parts
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Goodmusic Concert Classics
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Score, Parts
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In 5 Minutes
for: Flute, piano
Book
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The 5 Minute Tour
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
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Am Felsenufer toben ungestüm die Wellen
aus "Sadko" (1896) in d-Moll
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
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Lyrische Oper in einem Aufzugop. 69
Piano reduction
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op. 26
for: Violin, piano
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Book
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Book
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op. 37a
for: Piano
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for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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