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
Item no.: 865154
Simply Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 311509
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 401457
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE GITARRE GITARRE SOLO
Item no.: 392885
for: SATB + Orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244235
JSW - Jean Sibelius Sämtliche Werke (Hg.: Finnische Nationalbibliothek und Sibelius-Gesellschaft Finnland
JSW V/2 (Gesamtausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: Piano
Item no.: 479012
JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 10
edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 264389
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 212429
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 367359
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287171
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287090
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 268678
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 243006
for: Piano
Item no.: 285627
for: Piano
Item no.: 285201
15 Waltzes
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284886
Walzer für Klavier zu vier Händen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 284885
Volume 1: Intructive Edition
No. 1-15
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 284531
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 274799
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 216539
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043295
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 285978
for: Voice (high), violin, organ
Music score
Item no.: 285826
(Urtext)
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction
Item no.: 242716
for: Organ
Item no.: 227856
with Scherzo from the Octet MWV R 20
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Piano (four hands); violin, cello ad lib.
Piano score
Item no.: 141374
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1161809
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 660547
for: Orchestra
Salonorchester-Ergänzung (Zusatzstimmen für großes Orchester)
Item no.: 312398
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 283569
for: Orchestra
Salonorchester-Ergänzung (Zusatzstimmen für großes Orchester)
Item no.: 207572
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 283840
Item no.: 621599
(Complete edition)
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 479014
for: MCH (TTBBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 366748
Reprint of the Edition Leipzig 1795-1798 (3 Volumes in Slipcase)
for: Organ
3 Music lesson books
Item no.: 286690
(Complete edition)
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 284029
(Complete edition)
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 274838
String Symphony MWV N 3
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 171418
for: Flute [violin], guitar
Music score
Item no.: 314196
for: Flute ensemble
4 Performance scores
Item no.: 212023
for: Voice, piano
Single edition
Item no.: 376180
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285982
for: Voice (soprano), clarinet, piano
Item no.: 285019
(Urtext)
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 284900
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 284879
for: Piano
Item no.: 284491
for: Piano
Item no.: 284487
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