“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.
für 4 Trompeten, Horn, 4 Posaunen und Tuba
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 638143
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1202292
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1383231
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1383185
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1382816
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381994
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381930
Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Orchestra
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 1356632
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 849201
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696809
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 630856
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1382159
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242600
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 579456
Klassik
for: Clarinet [saxophone], piano
Buch
Item no.: 303196
for: 2 Clarinets and Piano
Book
Item no.: 166403
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 1664573
for: 2 pianos
Buch + CD
Item no.: 162056
Book (Hardcover)
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for: 2 Tenor Trombones
Buch
Item no.: 565918
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1105136
Ouverture Fantasie
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 735694
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 697679
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 695683
bearbeitet für drei Klarinetten
aus der Bärenreiter-Serie 'a tre'
for: 3 clarinets (trio)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 191974
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 422847
for: Piano
Music score, CD
Item no.: 1541508
for: Oboe, piano
Book
Item no.: 1106909
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 900453
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 947781
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 947242
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 945684
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943522
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 939901
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices); rhythm group ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246694
Collection Nobuya Sugawa "Saxy Ever"
for: Saxophone (SATBar) und Klavier
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1356581
for: Piano
Music score, Playback-CD
Item no.: 432103
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 156702
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 995523
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 129050
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 479681
Hal Leonard Flex-Band Series
for brass, woodwind or strings / includes percussion
for: Flexible ensemble (5 voices); drums ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609753
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 860953
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 808355
for: Orchestra and Piano
Piano reduction
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