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: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 956793
for: Piano
Music score
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Zarzuela forever
With piano accompaniment
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 611468
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 491811
for: 2 voices (SS) [women's choir], piano
Score
Item no.: 321637
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316345
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318174
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 185854
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 581331
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 558660
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 369775
for: Voice
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318144
for: Choir, piano
Choir score
Item no.: 982625
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318188
for: 3 soloists (SST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 158681
on texts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 685374
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 256266
Masters of the Romanticism
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 184742
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197564
Easy and moderately difficult pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 550074
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 550072
for: Piano
Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 193898
Aria from the opera “Rusalka” op. 114
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1672694
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 796980
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 863097
for All Saxophones
for: Saxophone
Music lesson book
Item no.: 101315
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 958489
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256727
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 665682
including first edition of the first version
Urtext
for: Piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401448
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1215443
Robert Schumann – New Edition of Complete Works 5
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 187408
for: Trumpet
Music lesson book (spiral binding), online audio
Item no.: 862332
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 385238
for: Piano
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 1682259
60 Exercises
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 407964
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1713768
Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Cello, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106996
No. 55
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1590814
from 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211259
Shawnee Sacred
for: SATB
Choir score
Item no.: 1643036
Klassik
for: Mixed Choir [STBar], Mixed Choir [SATB], Unison Voices and Orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1176041
Lehrhilfsmittel
for: Klarinettentrio
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1107322
Klassik
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1103466
National Edition
for: Piano
Study score
Item no.: 1539223
Woodwind Version
for: Flexible Woodwind Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 991614
The Great Classics
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1211255
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