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 lesson book
Item no.: 316273
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318126
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 673060
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 486799
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1198802
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256740
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256729
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1590823
for: Piano, orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
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for: Ukulele
Music score
Item no.: 1008011
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 193909
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1198886
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 118935
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 268828
for: Clarinet
Music lesson book
Item no.: 577085
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256731
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256728
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 366274
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 186571
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 177288
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 244371
for: 2 violins, viola, cello [3 violins, cello]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 193935
First versions
EMB New Liszt Edition Supplement 'A'
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 851049
for: Piano
Music score (hardcover)
Item no.: 640833
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ [piano]
Organ reduction
Item no.: 433772
for: Clarinet (B-flat)
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 638953
second to fifth position
for: Cello
Music lesson book
Item no.: 380379
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score, Playback-CD
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for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, solo parts
Item no.: 676425
Gegenwartsmusik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1163676
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103307
Klassik
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1105442
Klassik
for: Unison Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103265
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Marimba
Book
Item no.: 1106877
Hallelujah unto God's Almighty Son!
for: SATB, Piano or Full Orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1038838
Harmonia-Mixed Choir
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 915659
Hinshaw Music
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1634864
D
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1030562
Dm
for: Piano, Voice, Medium Voice
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1612559
divided into fifteen Lessons with an Appendix
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 775458
National Edition
for: Piano
Study score
Item no.: 1637386
including Fifty Advanced Studies
for: Bassoon
Music lesson book
Item no.: 745564
Gesamtausgabe
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 677327
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