“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.
Buch
Item no.: 252166
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963501
Trascrizione per organo di Angelo Maria Trovato
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 641557
Original Version
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 608499
Suite
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 578027
Hawkes Pocket Scores
for: Chamber orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 624526
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963730
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963728
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 477360
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1063709
Musica Rara
for: 2 clarinets
Item no.: 244158
Oper in 4 Akten
Piano reduction
Item no.: 156834
for: Piano
Item no.: 164126
Thema aus dem 3. Satz
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 168567
Classics
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1020251
New Sounds for Concert Band 167
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 688838
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 969397
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 786
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 559827
from Swan Lake
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 904015
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
Item no.: 1035500
for: Oboe [flute], violin, cello, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 343786
for: KLAR (TRP) KLAV
Item no.: 269226
for: Piano
Item no.: 471729
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 848620
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 887314
for: Choir
Book
Item no.: 946443
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 662825
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 170816
Ein Märchenbild
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392044
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 560580
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Book
Item no.: 939618
Russische Klaviermusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 635558
mit einer Moderation für Schülerkonzerte
String attack
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 765066
for: 4 Flöten
Buch
Item no.: 915505
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 972307
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 604578
for: Piano
Item no.: 137025
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 361884
Nr. 7 The Six Psalms
The Monuments of Russian Sacred Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 640828
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices); rhythm group ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246700
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1684119
for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 1652243
Schott Archive
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 761275
Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 755996
from the opera "The Golden Cockerel"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 731233
op. 37
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1548700
from: Children's Album
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 751077
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