“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
for: Euphonium, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244668
for: Euphonium, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244667
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244093
from "Album für die Jugend"
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1631908
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 594815
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590735
La Dame de Pique / Pique Dame
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 671968
from "Pictures at an exhibition"
for: Brass ensemble (8 parts), organ, timpani
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023500
Walzer
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963726
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988456
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988085
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1385418
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382270
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382771
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1380330
F
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049335
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384081
Ein Miesterwerk im Spiegel seiner Zeit
Heft + Medienpaket
Im Fokus (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
Item no.: 614384
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1379643
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1386136
op.37b
for: Clarinet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204054
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1384397
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1386495
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1386486
for: 4 Bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1345620
Oper in 3 Akten
Libretto auf Deutsch
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 357094
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 563849
for: Piano
Item no.: 189220
for: Piano
Item no.: 468760
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 403763
"Procession of the Princes" [from Mlada]
Amstel Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208830
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 493654
Nr. 8 Romanze Paulinens und russisches Liedop. 68
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 299060
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287089
op. 42/2
for: für Violine und Klavier
Item no.: 140849
from "The Nutcracker"
Correlates with Band Expressions 2
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 744995
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 909304
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 939223
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 888676
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 850186
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 943504
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 943926
for: Choral
Item no.: 1378038
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1383184
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1383173
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383172
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 129202
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 164804
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