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: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: String Ensemble and Piano
Score, Parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Set of parts
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Flute [violin], guitar
Score, Parts
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for: Mixed choir, strings
Set of parts
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for: Saxophonquartett [AATB]
Buch
Item no.: 913099
From ‘Il barbiere di Siviglia’
for: Voice (tenor), piano
Music score
Item no.: 752365
Quartet for 4 male voices
for: TTBB (Solo oder Chor) a cappella
Partitur mit Klavierbegleitung (zu Probenzwecken)
Item no.: 736693
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet); double bass ad lib.
Music score
Item no.: 730677
Uelzener Kuhlau Edition Bd 3
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Item no.: 208565
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 471121
Volume 3
Studien-Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 291612
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392167
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 658468
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 483411
selected from Op. 168
for: 3 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 727593
"Von dem Dome, schwer und bang"
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 782474
from: Album for the Young
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 751067
from: Peer-Gynt-Suite No. 2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 751008
from: Album for the Young
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 738998
Belle Epoque Russe
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738942
(Oberbayern und Tirol)
for: Frauen- oder Kinderchor (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 733332
Sérénade
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 747181
from "Roses from the South"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 746719
for: Clarinet
Score
Item no.: 238863
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108694
for: Guitar
Item no.: 393644
for: Guitar
Item no.: 393596
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 1013708
for: gemischter Chor (SAB) und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 761423
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 758419
(The Little Shepherd)
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743159
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741364
op. 20/8
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 738146
from: España op. 165
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 726909
op. 7
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 724885
op. 31/2
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 724883
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 724882
from the Cello Concerto
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 744737
from "Carmen"
for: Flute, piano
Music score
Item no.: 730664
for: 2 trumpets, horn, trombone, tuba (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 362446
for: höhere und tiefere Singstimme mit Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 658623
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 604878
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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