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.
Progessive studies for the first years
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Music lesson book
Item no.: 120602
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 143577
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 722243
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 657037
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 560519
Edition for Violin and Piano
Standard Violin Student Repertoire – Masterfully taught by Zakhar Bron
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, DVD
Item no.: 464740
for: Treble recorder
Book
Item no.: 490228
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 277144
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 385237
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 388445
in form of Etudes (in all 24 Keys)
for: Viola
Music score
Item no.: 352632
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256718
Unpublished Works II
Volume 2
Guitar Works (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Classical guitar
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 119060
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 357084
for: Piano, orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 641673
Presented by Daniel Grimwood
more than the score...
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 674924
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 190753
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 274955
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256854
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 655558
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 460652
Chorale cantata MWV A 7
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), strings
Score
Item no.: 235596
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1636216
for: Classical guitar
Music score (reprint)
Item no.: 119065
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 316318
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 321277
for: Voice (high), piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 359822
Altdeutscher Liederreim
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 681341
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1202798
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 475543
Herausgegeben für die Internationale Johann Wilhelm Wilms Gesellschaft
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 606277
for: Organ
Item no.: 458961
for: Flute, harp
Buch
Item no.: 292792
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 154368
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 200486
for: Harmonium / Orgel, Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 342059
Organ Repertoire Series 26
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 336903
Repertoire der Blasinstrumente 14
for: Clarinet [violin], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 242861
for: Piano 6 hands
Item no.: 135374
für Violoncello und Streicher
für Violoncello und Klavier
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE VIOLONCELLO VIOLONCELLO UND KLAVIER
Item no.: 446563
Harmoniumwerke 7
for: Harmonium [organ manuals]
Music score
Item no.: 490496
aus der gleichnamigen Operette
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 167812
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 492158
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 1139552
for: Guitar
Item no.: 299498
Introduction & Choral / Menuett gothique
Prière à Notre Dame / Toccata
for: Trumpet, organ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 781239
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 817117
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 941402