“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: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607279
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score
Item no.: 379208
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 379211
Méditation, Scherzo & Mélodie
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 404512
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 673306
for: Piano
Item no.: 462738
In Commemoration of Viktor Hartmann. Edited from the autograph
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 125067
Easiest Piano Pieces by P. I. Tchaikovsky
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 691731
for: Cello, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 488672
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197681
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197675
for: Electric organ
Single edition
Item no.: 108560
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 366574
from "Swan Lake"
The Brass Press
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 462208
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 197740
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1208762
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668749
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1669835
Extrait De Casse-Noisette
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1071817
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 670213
Gm
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1543815
F
for: Piano
Piano Duet (1 Piano, 4 Hands)
Item no.: 1479222
Russische Klaviermusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 635565
Russische Klaviermusik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 635509
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 621072
für Klavier und Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344033
Russian Dance from the Ballet "The Nutcracker"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 680285
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198380
Klavierauszug (kyr/frz/dt)
for: BUEHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE OPER
Item no.: 1343884
for: Flute ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1329615
First mouvement only
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 490015
G
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1048531
Gyoergy Geiger~Erlebnis Trompete 16
for: Trumpet, harp [piano]
Item no.: 158537
(in three volumes with English / Russian libretto)
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581100
from the Nutcracker Ballet
The Recorder Orchestra
for: Recorder ensemble
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 585874
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 207367
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 131860
complete ballet (in three volumes)
for: Symphonic orchestra
3 Study scores
Item no.: 559698
für Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 563886
for: Viola, piano
Buch
Item no.: 492864
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 347117
for: Organ
Item no.: 333077
Bm
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589252
Gm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1047865
FUER BLASORCHESTER
GLENESK MORTIMER, JOHN, ARR.
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588087
CD
Item no.: 161405
Brass Band
for: Trombone, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590811
Op. 33 (1876)
for: Horn (F), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282181
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