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 (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1349755
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 283745
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765579
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 113695
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 164474
for: Guitar
Item no.: 113177
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374531
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475489
(from Préludes, Op. 28, No. 15)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741369
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309033
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108677
for: Organ
Item no.: 314361
Critical Edition of the Orchestral Music, Volume 2
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 176575
for: Organ
Item no.: 201969
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675197
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1676675
Edition for Violoncello and Piano
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 331283
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460666
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614900
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 630406
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 688644
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123406
Piano reduction
Item no.: 128169
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 178117
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 576999
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 160619
for: Voice (bass), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4027
authentic alternative flute part (instead of violin) available separately as HN 1297
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 776879
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617092
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 273247
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 390209
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743254
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 624261
for: Viola, cello
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1191
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395484
for: Clarinet, piano
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 655463
for: Piano
Item no.: 360703
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 300314
with marked and unmarked string part
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561236
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 781354
Complete Organ Works 1
Edited from the autographs and first editions
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 125099
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541437
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 603656
for Double Bass Solo
for: Double bass
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 464268
for: Symphonic orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 487840
for: 4 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 190253
for: Mezzo-Soprano or Baritone and Piano
Book
Item no.: 169729
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401304
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