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: Flute, clarinet (B-flat), piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2267
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287077
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 604926
for: Flute, cello, piano [organ]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 2567
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 133579
The definitive version of Sibelius' Third
JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 4
edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561474
for: Horn, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 334088
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1673812
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817250
for: Organ [piano]
Music score (spiral binding)
Item no.: 672290
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score (with piano part)
Item no.: 378506
Famous Pieces for Piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1557136
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 285282
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 284747
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284549
Overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collin's Tragedy – Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 336228
"Spring Symphony"
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217694
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218197
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 287013
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 612745
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
für Klavier (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 464982
for: Organ
Item no.: 168652
for: Piano
Item no.: 184998
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 286073
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 549451
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163207
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 105778
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 286079
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695812
Urtext from the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696027
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662163
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 401256
for: Piano
Item no.: 419883
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 669064
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 432762
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489915
with marked and unmarked string parts
revised edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486507
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401343
with marked and unmarked string part
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796412
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 197987
Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 560101
Edition Schott
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 748849
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401215
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 105777
for: Viola, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 272293
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 378336
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