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: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670456
from "The Gipsy Baron"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670450
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score (C), Parts
Item no.: 137745
Clarinet attack
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 778774
for: Small wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 133554
for: Bassoon, piano
Book
Item no.: 166496
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198257
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 1203067
aus „Carmina Sacra“
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1115028
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1203463
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203374
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203324
for: Frauenchor, Orgel
Music score
Item no.: 1202471
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963662
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963449
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1058320
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 192816
Two Times For Two
for: 2 SAX (SA/AA/AT/TT)
Item no.: 580685
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1062572
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1068617
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 761961
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1200832
for: TRP (KLAR/T-SAX) KLAV
Item no.: 290312
for: 2 cellos
Item no.: 224249
Hinshaw Secular
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1057402
Hinshaw Concert
for: SATB - Double, a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1056951
für Gesang [c’ - f’’ (a’’)] und Klavier
auf Texte von Heine, Sturm u.a.
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 672239
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 831918
Klassik
for: Clarinet Quintet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530683
Klassik
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1530744
Klassik
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1530743
Klassik
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1530742
Klassik
for: Tiefes Blechbläserquartett
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530722
Klassik
for: 4 brass instruments
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1530716
Duet from the operetta "The Bat"
for: 2 voices (ST), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1666537
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665578
Polka schnell op. 324
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665558
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665194
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665192
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1660330
2 Vibraphones, 2 Marimbas, Marimba Basse, Glock
for: 5 Percussionists
Score, Parts
Item no.: 616838
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323968
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323967
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323930
Collection Anacrouse
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1323923
for: Horn, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 797692
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1584993