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: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 243006
for: Organ
Item no.: 202010
Violinkonzert (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 473645
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Solo part(s)
Item no.: 208443
First edition based on the copy of the score revised by Mahler Hamburg 1893
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 685903
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 768519
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 287089
(Urtext)
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 132803
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 287088
Appendix: Initial Ending of the Ballade No. 2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 285629
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1478382
Score
Item no.: 641524
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 478992
for: 2 clarinets, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 299851
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 266279
for: Flöte / Oboe, Klarinette, Fagott
Score, Parts
Item no.: 293518
for: Flute, oboe, orchestra
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 414281
for: Clarinet, bassoon, piano
Item no.: 183199
(Urtext)
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 285335
for: Viola, cello
Ensemble score
Item no.: 285200
for: Voice (soprano), clarinet, piano
Item no.: 285019
(Urtext)
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 284900
(Urtext)
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 284888
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
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 284879
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 284871
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 1161809
(complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 377879
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 632468
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 157856
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2097
for: Guitar
Item no.: 355216
Opera in three acts
Critical new edition with the recitatives later composed by Ernest Guiraud
Volume including text and an appendix with early versions and variants complementing the full score
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 370922
for flute and orchestra
for: Flute, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 683045
for: 2 voices [women's choir](smez), piano
Single edition
Item no.: 204123
for: Flute, cello, piano
Item no.: 312759
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1308777
for: Piano
Item no.: 356512
for: Piano
Item no.: 356435
for: Piano
Item no.: 356417
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 356388
for: Piano
Item no.: 356357
for: Violin [flute], piano
Item no.: 356264
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 356260
for: Piano
Item no.: 356245
for: Piano
Item no.: 356239
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356230
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