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: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 668869
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 360777
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 199425
Trout Quintet
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401446
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 186331
Edition for Bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 113750
Trois Esquisses Symphoniques (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 432596
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1532
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 148932
mit hinzugefügter Klavierbegleitung (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 383717
for: Flute, violin, viola, cello (flute quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 325987
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 300105
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 141411
for: Flute, cello, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 310656
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268853
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 585503
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 342369
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), harmonium, piano
Score
Item no.: 155585
for: Piano
Item no.: 610523
for: 1–2 cellos
Music score
Item no.: 566148
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680213
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 630330
Two Pianos, Four Hands
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 316174
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 299986
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 287563
No. 35–62
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 380373
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401505
for: Bassoon, violin, viola, cello
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 565004
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 900142
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 394933
for: 2 oboes, bassoon
Score, Parts
Item no.: 113573
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 344806
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391917
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391910
Early Sacred Choral Romanticism from France
If this score is delivered individually - and not in connection with the choir scores - some passages will be stamped illegible by the publisher.
for: Mixed choir (SABar), organ
Score
Item no.: 585563
for: 2 voices, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 360087
for: Violin, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 898933
Melodramma in un atto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 128194
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 193076
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 431795
für Trompete und Orchester
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 273250
for: Organ
Item no.: 184013
for: 2 cellos, piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1621
Tanzzyklen, die zu Schuberts Lebzeiten oder bald nachher erschienen sind.
Band 1 (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125017
Version for Viola
with marked and unmarked string parts
Free Download of Arpeggione part
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 174171
The first definitive author's version – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 577769
National Edition
for: Orchestra and Piano
Study score
Item no.: 1539225
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Denmark
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
![C. Schumann: Sonate op. 123 [a], FlKlav](https://www.stretta-music.com/media/images2/05/01/300105.jpg)
