“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.
op. 9/3
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 761561
for: Tuba (E-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1290553
op. 71a
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756872
Edition Schott
for: Orgel (2 Spieler)
Music score
Item no.: 758136
from "Sleeping Beauty"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 749036
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 594230
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 592437
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 593413
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595357
Nine pieces for string quartet, volume I
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 750377
No. 4 for piano in Tchaikovsky's own arrangement for cello and string orchestra
for: Cello, orchestra
Stimmensatz 2 Flöten 1/2, 2 Oboe 1/2, Klarinette 1, Klarinette 2, Fagott 1, Fagott 2, Horn 1, Horn 2, Violoncello solo, 6 Violine 1, 6 Violine 2, 5 Viola, 4 Violoncello, 3 Kontrabass
Item no.: 758651
(from Pictures at an Exhibition)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741374
from "Souvenir d' un lieu cher"
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 740878
for: Piano
Easy Piano
Item no.: 1044253
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1048046
for: Violin
Instrumental Solo
Item no.: 1050565
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210278
for: Flexible ensemble (4 voices)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210277
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1050072
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233831
for: Bass clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 376421
for: Violin, orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251419
for: Piano, orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1251375
for: Violin & String Quintet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242764
for: Tuba, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242655
for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242650
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242616
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
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for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242605
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
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for: Piccolo, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244718
for: Bassoon, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244707
for: Tenor recorder, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244701
for: Trombone, piano [organ]
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244682
for: Baritone saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1244091
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242425
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381939
for: 2 pianos
Sheet music
Item no.: 1383187
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1382982
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1379974
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1379943
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1271716
for: F or Eb Horn & Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1272488
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589165
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553680
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553475
for: Soprano saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299330
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