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.
2. Fassung 1877
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 409798
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486509
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 647748
Soprano
for: Voice (soprano)
Music score
Item no.: 796115
for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3406
for: Voice [melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat)], piano [keyboard/guitar]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1414
by G. Paisiello (from 'L'amor contrastato, ossia La molinara')
for: Clarinet, guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 656702
for: Violin (solo), viola (solo), string orchestra
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 290017
Transcription
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750203
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 229011
for: Piano
Item no.: 609735
for: Flute, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 216438
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 613114
for: Piano
Item no.: 285717
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 627127
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1552161
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 208880
for: Trombone
Music score, online mp3/pdf with piano accompaniment
Item no.: 587065
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 164106
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 378814
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 241358
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 464269
for: Bassoon
Score
Item no.: 257310
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 364090
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 201333
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 404436
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163190
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 4496
for: Piano
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 128745
Romantische Oper in drei Aufzügen
Klavierauszug nach der Gesamtausgabe
Item no.: 757847
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1022691
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 379175
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 162246
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487064
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 212402
for: Trombone, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 129690
High Voice
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 494589
Urtext Edition, clothbound
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1640747
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796413
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 1552157
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 113673
for: Cello
Item no.: 287480
for: 5 strings
Study score
Item no.: 391493
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 283778
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687596
Soprano
for: Voice (soprano)
Music score
Item no.: 796116
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