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: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 286847
for: 2 flutes, orchestra
Piano reduction, 2 Parts
Item no.: 168597
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 285727
With supplementary violoncello part marked by Maria Kliegel
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, 2 solo parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665543
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 229312
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 669571
for: 4 flutes (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 214487
for: 4 POS KLAV
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 181986
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 130495
für Klavier
Fräulein Annette Preußer gewidmet (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Piano score
Item no.: 383553
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 359586
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 616953
for: Flute, violin, viola
Set of parts
Item no.: 286859
for: Cello [violin], organ [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 563979
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 1611159
for: Flexible ensemble
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 155513
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 104027
for: Flute [violin], guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559100
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 684557
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 680981
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 769548
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 745864
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 100113
Master Pieces
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 598247
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 677546
for: Flexible ensemble (2 melodic instruments (C/B-flat), cello [double bass/bassoon], piano; percussion ad lib.)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 182168
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 132247
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348549
for: Flexible wind band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 341953
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 565544
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 272557
from Pictures of an Exhibition
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Flexible ensemble (5 parts), piano (school orchestra)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 224205
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 223404
for: SATB Saxophones
Buch
Item no.: 487605
"Resurrection"
Based on the New Critical Complete Edition, published by International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 693133
Based on the Critical Complete Edition, published by International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 577585
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 555132
for: 2 cellos
Music score, CD
Item no.: 462542
for: Piano
Solostimme
Item no.: 877417
for: Violin, viola, piano
Book
Item no.: 404150
for: für Flöte und Klavier
Item no.: 177021
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 388535
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489916
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 612852
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 105775
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 671635
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 610849
for: Narrator, 2 flutes, 2 harps, celesta
Score, Parts
Item no.: 301371
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