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: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163190
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378814
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 103711
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 201333
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 364090
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229011
Urtext Edition, clothbound
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1640747
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4496
for: Cello
Item no.: 287480
for: 2 cellos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 605955
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687596
High Voice
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 494589
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 1552157
for: Trombone, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 129690
for: Piano
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 128745
Fingering: Hans-Martin Theopold
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401096
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 488273
for: 5 strings
Study score
Item no.: 391493
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 212402
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 379175
Soprano
for: Voice (soprano)
Music score
Item no.: 796116
for: Flute, violin, guitar
Item no.: 130102
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 433112
Revised version (1903-1904, rev. 1905)
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 732549
for: Clarinet (B-flat), horn (F) [cello], piano
Piano score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3694
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393457
for: Violin, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 367387
9 Volumes in a Slipcase
for: Symphonic orchestra
9 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695842
for: 2 classical guitars
Set of parts
Item no.: 694886
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 180175
for: Harp, piano
Item no.: 558443
with Urtext and Bärmann parts
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 333670
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 348387
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367054
für Flöte (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Flute
Item no.: 359797
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 129591
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 129058
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661684
with marked and unmarked string parts
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401516
Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 374447
Original version
for: Clarinet (B-flat), violin, viola, cello, piano left hand
Score, Single parts
Item no.: 562762
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 659386
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 6455
Liszt Society Publications 11
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 461937
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 278160
for: Oboe [flute/clarinet (B-flat)/violin], cello [viola/bassoon/clarinet (B-flat)], piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5249
for: Cello, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 260874
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582644