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: Male choir
Item no.: 582006
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1005496
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion solo
Item no.: 222996
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 958875
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1006012
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1005692
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1109401
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 968913
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 381266
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 864416
Symphonic poem
after a poem by Henri Cazalis
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 692992
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 262622
op. 20/3
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1650956
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 561523
Operette in 3 Akten | Reprintausgabe
Lyric book
Item no.: 1641947
for: 2 pianos
Single edition
Item no.: 1096186
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 1096170
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1096139
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 993065
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1646239
for: Viola, piano
Score
Item no.: 879198
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1096571
for: Diatonic accordion
Item no.: 125732
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1005953
Trois Esquisses Symphoniques (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432625
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 185794
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 156039
for: Fanfare and Saxophone[s]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 882786
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635476
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 630128
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 583547
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 561021
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 457126
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 376338
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 375527
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 373526
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 303586
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340852
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition by Henle Verlag
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 579035
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition by Henle Verlag
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 579031
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 377739
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 668158
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 666810
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 664629
for: Cello, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 628958
for: Choral
Item no.: 1542985
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