“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.
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344740
March
Vzyatiye Karsa
Reprint
Repertoire Explorer
Study Score 862
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344867
From Sadko
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1583310
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 998779
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198302
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 621073
für Klavier
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 637237
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 631609
for: BLECH ENSEMBLE SCHLAGZ
Score, Parts
Item no.: 551251
Symphonic fantasia after Dante
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 737145
aus dem Streichquartett Nr. 1
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 372389
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 491699
From Orchestral Suite No. 1 In D Major, Op. 43
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 994637
Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044309
Gm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1665830
for: Solo for Flute, Bassoon, Alto Saxophone, Trumpet or Cornet, Alto Trombone, Bass Trombone or Tuba & String Orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1607670
Gb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1048113
A
for: Piano
Easy Piano
Item no.: 1046031
A
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045798
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1047271
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045280
D
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589310
Belle Epoque Russe
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197588
from the Opera Mlada
for: 4 trombones (quartet)
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285340
from Swan Lake Op. 20
for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285181
from Swan Lake Op. 20
for: Tuba, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285168
from Swan Lake Op. 20
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1285165
for: Brass quintet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1265623
Op. 33 (1876)
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282185
Op. 33 (1876)
for: Tuba, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282177
for: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1233829
for: Violin & String Quartet
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242763
for: Viola, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242651
for: Soprano saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242612
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242475
for: Tuba (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242470
Brass Band
for: Solo for Eb Horn, Trombone or Euphonium & Brass Band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589627
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1025405
Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554729
Am
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554457
A musical fairy tale
for: Narrator, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668014
aus Bilder einer Ausstellung
for: Cello, harp [piano]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 331414
From Pictures At An Exhibition
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299333
From Pictures At An Exhibition
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299329
From Pictures At An Exhibition
for: Viola, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299317
From Nutcracker
for: Flute, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299282
From Nutcracker
for: Bassoon, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299149
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