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, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391912
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 391495
for: Horn, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 245512
for: Piano
Item no.: 174779
für Klavier (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 464982
for: Piano 4 hands
Spielpartitur, Urtextausgabe, Sammelband
Item no.: 614777
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 612745
for: Violin, orchestra
Klavierauszug, Stimme
Item no.: 612198
Illustrated book, CD
Item no.: 676055
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 817339
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617098
Thi edition replaces the previous volume HN 118
Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609242
with marked and unmarked string parts
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609180
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 557993
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684878
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 682816
from Partita no. 2 d minor
Arrangement for Piano, left Hand by Johannes Brahms
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679821
Famous Pieces for Piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1557136
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685086
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 683770
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 665412
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 302533
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489915
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 584015
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 555127
for: Organ [piano]
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 672290
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 276605
with marked and unmarked string parts
revised edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486507
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218197
6 Volumes in a Slipcase
for: Piano
6 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561232
"Spring Symphony"
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217694
Edited from the autographs and the first edition
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 214569
Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 560101
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 116963
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 382396
zu Kreutzer- und Rode-Etüden
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 361093
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 114068
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 123011
for: Flute, orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 200544
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 198152
for: Alt und Kammerorchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 287454
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286079
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 286073
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 285282
Lyric book
Item no.: 111603
for: 2 clarinets (B-flat), piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 109072
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