The turn of the 19th century saw the dawn of Romanticism. This artistic and cultural movement was constantly striving for new ideas and new beginnings, during a particularly turbulent time in social, political and natural history. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the romantic masters and their works today.
The reason and order of the classical period were balanced out in the romantic period by emotion and imagination. The word romanticism is derived from the French literary terms roman and romantique. Programme music uses melodies and instrumental colours to tell a story, to take the listener on a musical journey. The most prominent of all program music is undoubtedly the symphonic poem, created, explored and developed by composers such as Franz Liszt and Bedřich Smetana.
Compared to the Classical Period, the melodies of the romantic period became less and less regular and symmetrical, and the harmony more and more chromatic and dissonant. As the romantic period progressed, the possibilities of traditional tonality became more and more exhausted, and the beginning of the 20th century saw the departure from classical structure and form, and the movement towards modern and contemporary classical music.
In order to broaden the sound palate which set the mood and atmosphere for the romantic period, new instruments began to appear in the orchestra, and voices began to be deployed, choirs and soloists began to be introduced into traditional instrumental works. Throughout the 19th century, the fashion was expansion, both in music for Symphony Orchestra and in Choral Music, the forces grew and grew, far beyond the imagination of any of the classical composers of the previous century.
In the 19th century, Opera flourished, be it Italian verismo, French "Grand Opera", or Wagner’s new world of music theatre. The most important opera composers of the 19th century were Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jacques Offenbach, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 817117
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 941402
for: Piano
Item no.: 333640
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer 114
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 365988
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 631337
Mittelschwere Stücke
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 7
for: Piano
Music score
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für Gitarre
Band 2
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: 8 horns
Score, Parts
Item no.: 778583
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 775426
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Guitar, string orchestra
Score
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Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Organ
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for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: Flute
Music score
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Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Organ
Music score
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Sämtliche Lieder 2
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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Oper in drei Akten
Kritische Neuausgabe nach den Quellen mit den nachkomponierten Rezitativen von Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 271296
for: Piano
Music score
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(mittel) und Gitarre, Spielpartitur
for: SOLOGESANG (INCL. MEHRERE SOLOSTIMMEN) EINE SINGSTIMME SONSTIGE
Item no.: 428479
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 665480
for: 3 recorders (SAT)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 192264
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 622793
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 694876
for: TASTEN- UND BALGINSTRUMENTE ORGEL ORGEL ZWEIHÄNDIG
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for: Piano
Item no.: 187386
for: Piano
Item no.: 174779
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
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for tenor voice and guitar
Transcription and fingerings by Tilman Hoppstock
for: Voice (tenor), guitar
Music score
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Oratorio
for: Soli BarBMSMezATTB, Chor SSTB, 2 Flöten, 2 Oboen, 4 Klarinetten, 2 Fagotte, 4 Hörner, 2 Trompeten, 3 Posaunen, Pauken, 2 Violinen, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass
Piano reduction
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Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 754190
op. 89
for: Organ
Music score
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Edition Schott
for: Bläsersextett
Score, Parts
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Schott Student Edition - Repertoire
for: Violin, piano
Music score
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op. 110
for: Clarinet
Music score
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Preludes to Acts 1 and 3
for: Orchestra
Study score
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The Swan from: Le Carnaval des animaux, No. 13
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 746411
A systematically graded and progressively arranged collection of Carl Czerny's Studies selected from his entire works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741027
Russian Dance
for: Piano
Music score
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Schott Archive
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
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Vorspiel
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Edition Schott
for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 voices (SS), piano
Sheet music
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for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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