“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: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Choral
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for: Flötenquartett
Book
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
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Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951601
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951694
Oper in einem Akt nach dem Poem Die Zigeuner von Alexander Puschkin
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 277886
Legend for Orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
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Piano Picture Book
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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Klassik
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Music score
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for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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solo, Violine, Viola und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICHINSTRUMENTE QUARTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614730
Score, Set of parts
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
Sheet music
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
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for: String orchestra
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for: Double bass
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op. 54
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for: Symphonic orchestra
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Klassik
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Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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from "Prince Igor"
Belwin Young Band Series
for: Youth concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
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Music score
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for: String orchestra
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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1st Movement from Serenade in C Major for String Orchestra, Op. 48
Belwin Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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for: 2 pianos
2 Performance scores
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
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für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, piano
Sheet music
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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Gesang und Klavier
for: Voice, piano
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: Piano
Single edition
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mallets
Book
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for: Choir
Einzelstimme
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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