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: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 132473
for: 2 voices (ST), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1662
for: Flute, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 327791
40 Arrangements of Famous Classical Masterpieces
Best of Classics
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 676401
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 401457
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 360594
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 104965
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 343567
50 Daily Exercises
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 359333
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 353795
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391875
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1479650
for: Flute, piano [organ]
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
Item no.: 602462
for: Piano, harmonium
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 565428
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 462351
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 360111
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 488786
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138538
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 635574
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395209
Transcription from the Opera Lakmé
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1701116
Sonatas, Individual Piano Pieces, Variations
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1340554
for: 2 woodwinds (treble clef)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 420516
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 972371
Potpourri
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1689525
Auszüge aus den Enigma-Variationen
for: 8 trombones
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677889
for: Horn (F), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1677564
aus der Oper "La Traviata"
Edition Maulwurf
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, cello, double bass (nonet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677565
Antiphon
Edition Maulwurf
for: 3 trumpets, horn, 2 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677725
for: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1682111
German Hornsound
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677755
Urtextausgabe
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1687890
Band 2
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1676768
for: Harp
Item no.: 1677703
Instruktive Pegasus-Ausgabe nach dem Urtext herausgegeben von Andreas Wörth
for: Piano
Item no.: 1678360
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/C low), orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1669533
WAB 30
MCM - Masterworks of Choral Music
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1670378
EMB Moments Musicaux for Violoncello 6
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678202
Dresdner und Pariser Fassung in Szenenfolge
Oper in 3 Akten WWV 20
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1689896
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1677932
Mit 2. Stimme
Walzer
for: 1–2 accordions
Music score
Item no.: 1687886
(originally Concerto for Oboe)
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1681313
I.-V./VI. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1673777
from "Carmen"
for: Voice (mezzo-soprano), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668398
to "Carmen"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668392
aus der gleichnamigen Choralkantate "Christe, du Lamm Gottes"
MWV A 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1697109
für Flöte und Blasorchester
for: Flute, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 644278
Klassik
for: Klarinettenensemble
Book
Item no.: 993713