“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204816
Klassik
for: Voice (low)
Book
Item no.: 1204660
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204517
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1144418
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1141583
From Prince Igor
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1143260
The Great Classics
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1210935
for Czar Alexander III
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198315
aus 'Der Nussknacker'
for: 3 flutes, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 778837
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1092982
for: Violin, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1646241
for: Violin, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 1646243
Klassik
for: Voice (high)
Book
Item no.: 1204752
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1195111
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 1138211
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204519
Nutcracker
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1144066
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132711
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204504
Frauenstimmen
for: Mixed choir, piano
Vocal score
Item no.: 1105628
Klassik
for: 10 Wind Instruments [Brass Ensemble]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1591033
for: Cello,Vocal and Piano
Book
Item no.: 1204696
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1539939
for Clarinet Choir
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1584533
Book
Item no.: 1204617
From 'Sleeping Beauty'
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Book
Item no.: 1142935
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1657166
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1658785
for: 2 Git Vc
Item no.: 636454
for: 4 mandolins
Music score
Item no.: 658230
for: Opera
Buch
Item no.: 249362
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1132289
Piano reduction
Item no.: 296255
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 362650
for: 2 horns
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1138802
Piano Quintet in C minor (string parts)
Chamber Music
Item no.: 1344414
for: Pauke
Item no.: 183816
aus dem Ballett "Der Nussknacker"
Compact Winds
for: Flexible woodwind ensemble (4 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 364006
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170050
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 170046
op. 37a
for: Piano
Item no.: 1356809
from the Ballet The Nutcracker op. 71
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 888789
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1659113
for: Woodwind Octet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1090838
William Allen Music – Competition Series
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1019194
op. 23
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1650808
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1650806
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1065003
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