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: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 404152
for: Soprano or Tenor Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 169247
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 162239
for piano
Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401353
for: für Flöte und Klavier
Item no.: 143113
for: für Violine und Klavier
Item no.: 268541
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1712006
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 1711997
for: Piano
Item no.: 401253
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 3854
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3214
(Notturno Nr.3)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 419637
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score, CD
Item no.: 605889
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 478992
Transcription from the Opera Lakmé
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1701116
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 108694
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 1544493
for: Voice (low), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 106533
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 657860
for: Piano
Item no.: 356245
40 Arrangements of Famous Classical Masterpieces
Best of Classics
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 676401
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 357094
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 241306
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 643587
for: 4 violas
Score, Parts
Item no.: 768067
for: 2 organs (4 hands)
Item no.: 282739
for: Voice (medium/high), piano
Item no.: 360640
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 492693
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 182063
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 360492
for: Flute, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 563136
for: Guitar
Item no.: 393629
for: Flute, piano
Item no.: 337562
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 124316
for: für Klavier
Item no.: 124287
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 492279
Walzer für Klavier zu vier Händen (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 284885
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 170012
for: Clarinet, violin, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1652546
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 104965
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1713906
Easiest Piano Pieces by P. I. Tchaikovsky
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1713623
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 633495
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
Item no.: 362390
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1619946
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 670065
for: 2 voices [women's choir](smez), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 204123
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287090
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