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: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1068562
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1066434
BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1010580
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1060752
for: Euphonium and Tuba Quartet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1090871
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1091115
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1091114
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1016801
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016718
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1015249
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1066725
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1069228
Overture
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1064150
Mazurka
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018646
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018387
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1017692
Excerpted from: Tannhäuser
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Conductors part
Item no.: 1018815
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1010743
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016345
Overture
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1069672
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1067518
for: 6 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016307
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023659
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 947023
Gitarre-Soli 37
for: Guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1535040
Gitarre-Soli 47
for: Guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1535015
aus der Oper "Hoffmanns Erzählungen"
for: Piano
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1535089
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1215459
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 101785
for: Piano, brass ensemble, latin percussion
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1025137
for: Eb Horn and piano
Book
Item no.: 966287
Nr. 3 c-Moll
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 419808
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 843834
pour choeur à 2-3 voix égales et cordes
for: Women's choir (3 parts), string orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 621294
from "Variations on an Original Theme" ("Enigma Variations") op.36
Variation IX
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 682828
for: Organ
Item no.: 201978
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 554396
from "Variations on an Original Theme" ("Enigma Variations") op.36
Variation IX
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 682840
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 936884
for: Opera
Piano reduction
Item no.: 940326
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 930578
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935442
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 843190
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 177740
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 142332
for: Voice, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1202084
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1202065