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: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, 2 solo parts
Item no.: 601946
Acht religiöse Stimmungsbilder
for: Harmonium
Music score
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for: Piano
Item no.: 333640
for: Organ
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Reprint
Repertoire Explorer 114
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 365988
Ausgabe für tiefere Stimme in 4 Bänden
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 565588
for: Organ
Item no.: 201968
for: Treble recorder
Ensemble score
Item no.: 418481
für Gesang und Klavier
Original-Ausgabe für Hohe Stimme
Lieder in 3 Bänden, Urtext, Band 3 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 360080
for: 2 flutes (duet)
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for: Flute [violin], guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 418162
for: Cello, piano
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Flute, cello, piano
Piano score, parts
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for: Piano
Item no.: 187386
for: Piano
Music score
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Second Version (1890)
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: Symphonic orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 613448
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 631337
bearbeitet für Föte und Klavier
The Flute Collection
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 683770
for: Double bass, piano
Item no.: 243971
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 769567
Mittelschwere Stücke
Klavierstücke von Fanny Hensel 7
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 275744
Like as the hart longs / Wie der Hirsch schreit
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: 5 soloists (STTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235287
für Gitarre
Band 2
for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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Hugo Wolf Kritische Gesamtausgabe
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Music score
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for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Cello (solo), 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass
Score, Set of parts
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für Flöte und Orchester
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano score, solo part
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pour 2 flutes piccolos et piano
Collection Jean-Louis Beaumadier
for: 2 piccolos, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
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Volume 2, No. 8-24
Eliot Fisk Master Series
for: Classical guitar
Music score
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for: 8 horns
Score, Parts
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Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
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Swing Song
for: Cello, piano
Music score
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Schott Archive
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Score, part
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Double bass, piano
Book
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for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Score
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for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Organ
Score
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for: Guitar, string orchestra
Score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Special edition in association with Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
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