“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: Concert band
Score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
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for: Accordion orchestra
Score
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
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for: Trombone, piano
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Sound Spectacular
70 Repertoire Favorities for Young Players
for: Melody instrument, piano
Piano accompaniment (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691213
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1539782
for: Flute, string orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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Single part (Cello solo)
Item no.: 138507
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Lyric book
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: String orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 683420
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
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for: 2 cellos
2 Performance scores
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 851632
for: Mixed Choir [SAB] and Piano 4 Hands
Choir score
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(aus Nussknacker Suite)
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
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Book
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for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Brass band
Score, Parts
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for: 2 Git Vc
Item no.: 636345
Buch
Item no.: 249851
for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1
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for: Oboe, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Handbells [2-3]
Single edition
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Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
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Klassik
for: Soprano,Clarinet and Violoncello
Book
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
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Klassik
for: Voice (low)
Book
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Lyric book
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Klassik
for: Accordion Ensemble and Bass
Score, Parts
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for: Solo and SA
Buch
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