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, piano
Music score
Item no.: 774869
for: Violin
Music score
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for: Mallets
Music lesson book, playback-CD
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for: Classical guitar
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 766323
24 große Studien, Band 2: B-Tonarten (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Flute
Music lesson book
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for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
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for: Voice (melody instrument]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 256946
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 388845
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Soprano
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Playback-CD (Choir part Soprano)
Item no.: 482859
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part alto)
Item no.: 684901
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part bass)
Item no.: 680093
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 677696
for: Flute
Music lesson book
Item no.: 177827
Music lesson book
Item no.: 257085
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Playback-CD (mp3) (choir part soprano)
Item no.: 658341
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 121548
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Playback-CD (Chorstimme Bass)
Item no.: 341531
for: Trumpet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 283188
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Alto
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part alto)
Item no.: 174865
for: Trombone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 266499
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 383108
Choral Singing – The Easy Way to Learn. Progress through Private Practice
Choral Part Bass
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
2 Playback-CDs (choir part bass)
Item no.: 302692
Low Voice
for: Voice (low), piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 359824
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 101528
for: Trombone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 648027
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
2 Playback-CDs (choir part tenor)
Item no.: 313890
for: Männerchor (TT(B)B)
Music score
Item no.: 731021
op. 59/3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Music score
Item no.: 730984
op. 79/4
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 730982
for: Tuba (bass)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 606505
Schule
for: Violin
Music lesson book
Item no.: 988222
29 febbraio 1792 – 17 marzo 1822
Fondazione Rossini Pesaro
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 780804
la composizione e la vita musicale nell'Europa dell'Ottocento
Book
Item no.: 777213
Book, CD
Item no.: 777202
Les Romantiques et l'Opéra / I Romantici e l'Opera
Sediziose voci. Studi sul melodramma 7
Book
Item no.: 773851
for: Double bass
Music score
Item no.: 393036
Schule
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 971936
Book
Item no.: 1209853
Book
Item no.: 776148
for: Guitar
Lesson book (with standard notation and tabs), DVD
Item no.: 630848
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 772432
for: Tuba
Music lesson book
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