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 score
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Electric guitar
DVD (learning video)
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Bassoon
Music score
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for: Trombone
Music score
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for: String orchestra
Score
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for: Baritone horn
Buch
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for: Voice, piano
Piano score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Opera with a Prologue and four Acts (First version) / Opera in five Acts (Second version)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 scores (hardcover, Urtext editions)
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for: Männerchor (T(B)B) und Klavier
Choir score
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for: Voice (high), piano
Piano score
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for: Concert band
Score
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on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Robert Schumann – New Edition of Complete Works 5
Book (Hardcover)
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A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scriptures
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score (Urtext edition)
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for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 488836
for: Violin
Music score, CD
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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for: Guitar
Music score
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for: Clarinet
Music score
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for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Book (Hardcover)
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Organ
Music score
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Piano reduction
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Masters of the Romanticism
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Music score
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Correspondence dispatched 1896-1904
Book
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Book (softcover)
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for: Horn
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (4 voices) a cappella
Score (with critical report)
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Flute
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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More than the Score
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 674926
with notes on interpretation by Artur Schnabel
Volume 2 (sonatas 13-23)
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Music score
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for horn with piano accompaniment
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Oratorio "Christus am Ölberge"
Beethoven vocal Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
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for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
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Piano/Vocal
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Piano/Voice/Guitar
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