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: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
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for: Voice, guitar
Score, part
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 967774
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music lesson book
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 311703
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 317691
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317494
for: SAATBB a Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 317492
Lyric book
Item no.: 318336
Lyric book
Item no.: 318305
Lyric book
Item no.: 318287
Lyric book
Item no.: 318285
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318179
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318164
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 190793
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 745196
Reprint Edition
for: Violin, guitar
Set of parts
Item no.: 1552352
from Messiah
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732057
for: Organ
Music lesson book
Item no.: 174141
for: Organ
Music lesson book
Item no.: 365052
for: 2 flutes, piano
Buch + Einzelstimme(n)
Item no.: 1593408
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 982909
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732059
for high voice and piano
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 632858
for young male chorus (with cambiata voices) and piano (simplified)
Emerging Voices
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 682683
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition, anthology)
Item no.: 875409
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 342509
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 335916
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
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for: Voice (high/medium/low), piano
Music score
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Documents Sectiom 1–9
Book
Item no.: 767843
Correspondence recieved 1896-1904
Book
Item no.: 767839
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 1026592
for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
Item no.: 1197132
from Symphony No. 9
for: Cello, piano
Music score
Item no.: 732069
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772273
Presented by Daniel Grimwood
more than the score...
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 675015
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 658259
for: Voice (high), piano
Item no.: 347997
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