“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: Harp, Keyboard and Others
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204337
Book
Item no.: 972217
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1019831
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1026963
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609252
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts), percussion
Score, Parts
Item no.: 345538
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
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from the opera "Prince Igor"
for: Concert band; chorus ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1679250
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 820513
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 162936
for: 2 violins, cello
Set of parts
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for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348546
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
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Carpe Diem Wood Wind Series
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 771025
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 347264
No. 4 for piano in Tchaikovsky's own arrangement for cello and string orchestra
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 750589
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 750373
(op. posth. 70/18)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741391
op. 3/3
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741235
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 749260
"Die Stadt ruht im Dunkel"
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 742931
Symphonic Fantasy after W. Shakespeare
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 732147
from the Opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 731590
In a simple arrangement for piano
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1340997
Allegro giusto
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 756226
Original Version
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 756024
op. 48
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 722550
op. 3/2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 723700
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1554213
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553873
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1553783
for: Piano, French Horn
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
Item no.: 1589445
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1478842
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1044307
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049584
for: Voice, piano [guitar]
Piano/Voice/Guitar
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045277
for: Piano
Easy Piano
Item no.: 1044264
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1049378
for: Flexible string ensemble
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210575
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1483
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045770
for: Brass ensemble (10 parts), timpani, latin percussion
Score, Parts
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for: Piano
Item no.: 577175
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 780520
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