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 (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 161179
Studien-Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 155693
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 136002
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 417828
'Vienna Version' 1890/91
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 409794
1861/62
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 156351
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163207
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 161373
for: Soprano or Tenor Voice and Piano
Book
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for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 404359
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 165573
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 467611
Volume 2, No. 8-24
Eliot Fisk Master Series
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 340270
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 481777
2Second Version (1878) with the 1880 Finale
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 337522
with marked and unmarked string parts
revised edition
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 486507
6 Volumes in a Slipcase
for: Piano
6 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561232
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 489915
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 460644
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 549451
for: Piano
Music score, online playback
Item no.: 413420
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Music score, online audio
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Edited from the sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
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Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 560101
for: 2 violins, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 193585
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1540794
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 112820
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 112854
Flute Miniatures 2
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 329559
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 395235
Edited from the autographs and the first edition
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 214569
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 392403
for: Guitar
Item no.: 355194
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 287013
Complete Works for organ 3
Edited from the autographs and First Editions
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Organ
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 125101
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 185840
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 105778
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Music score
Item no.: 105777
for: Piano
Item no.: 356464
for: Piano
Item no.: 152479
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 391495
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 391401
for: Flute
Item no.: 393411
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 409804
Two copies needed for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401413
Song Cycle on Poems by Heine
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 796431
Lyric book
Item no.: 111603
for: Alt und Kammerorchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 287454
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Set of parts
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