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: Choir
Score
Item no.: 876086
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 872898
for: Choir a Cappella
Score
Item no.: 870907
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 865857
for: Male choir
Score
Item no.: 864198
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 428308
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 913035
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 912188
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 903805
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924109
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 913232
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 911571
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 912840
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 932110
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 931853
for: Guitar ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 362059
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Book
Item no.: 1204697
for: Voice (medium)
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1153271
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 382860
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 467947
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 386471
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 358642
for: Piano
Item no.: 1618368
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 935642
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647272
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1648335
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647814
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647702
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647629
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647586
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647314
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647218
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647939
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 169963
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 161303
for: Brass ensemble (13 parts), glockenspiel
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1716245
Overture to the Opera
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 659069
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 184455
for: Women's choir; piano ad lib.
Choir part Soprano 1
Item no.: 668845
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 295132
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672628
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 578419
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion
Item no.: 340912
Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 672629
for: Guitar, strings
Single part Guitar (solo)
Item no.: 368922
Overture
for: Salon orchestra
Single part Violin obligato
Item no.: 757175
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