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: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 178117
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 630406
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617092
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 296594
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 160619
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 688644
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 401578
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614900
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 273247
for: Mezzo-Soprano or Baritone and Piano
Book
Item no.: 169729
pour contrebasse et piano (original pour arpeggione et piano)
Collection Richard Dubugnon
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 664026
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 215480
Volume I
Studien-Edition
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 211388
for: Cello, guitar
Item no.: 393951
for: Voice (high/medium), guitar
Score
Item no.: 148535
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1541437
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 624261
for: Clarinet, cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 224599
for: Viola, cello
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1191
"Triple Concerto"
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, cello, piano, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 603977
for: 2 clarinets
Parts (2)
Item no.: 349088
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205426
for: Clarinet, piano
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 655463
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 390209
for: Symphonic orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 487840
for: 4 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 190253
with marked and unmarked string part
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561236
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401304
for Double Bass Solo
for: Double bass
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 464268
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395484
for: Piano
Item no.: 360703
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 300314
Based on the Sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 635023
for: Sopran, Tenor, gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Choir score
Item no.: 134080
on a Mozart theme (“Ah! vous dirai-je, maman”)
for: Sopran, Flöte und Klavier
Partitur und Stimme Flöte
Item no.: 1209538
for: Guitar, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 163951
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684796
Maders kleine Musikbibliothek
for: Flute, viola, guitar
Score, Parts
Item no.: 551037
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 817246
Op. 14
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1563133
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 138598
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 382592
for: Voice, guitar
Item no.: 408805
for: Piano
Item no.: 393469
contains the unsigned solo part as well as the solo part arranged and annotated by Heinrich Schiff
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 180584
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391771
for: Guitar
Study score
Item no.: 1618814
for two violins, 2 violas and cello
Urtext
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 577002
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