The turn of the 19th century saw the dawn of Romanticism. This artistic and cultural movement was constantly striving for new ideas and new beginnings, during a particularly turbulent time in social, political and natural history. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the romantic masters and their works today.
The reason and order of the classical period were balanced out in the romantic period by emotion and imagination. The word romanticism is derived from the French literary terms roman and romantique. Programme music uses melodies and instrumental colours to tell a story, to take the listener on a musical journey. The most prominent of all program music is undoubtedly the symphonic poem, created, explored and developed by composers such as Franz Liszt and Bedřich Smetana.
Compared to the Classical Period, the melodies of the romantic period became less and less regular and symmetrical, and the harmony more and more chromatic and dissonant. As the romantic period progressed, the possibilities of traditional tonality became more and more exhausted, and the beginning of the 20th century saw the departure from classical structure and form, and the movement towards modern and contemporary classical music.
In order to broaden the sound palate which set the mood and atmosphere for the romantic period, new instruments began to appear in the orchestra, and voices began to be deployed, choirs and soloists began to be introduced into traditional instrumental works. Throughout the 19th century, the fashion was expansion, both in music for Symphony Orchestra and in Choral Music, the forces grew and grew, far beyond the imagination of any of the classical composers of the previous century.
In the 19th century, Opera flourished, be it Italian verismo, French "Grand Opera", or Wagner’s new world of music theatre. The most important opera composers of the 19th century were Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jacques Offenbach, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3815
for: Orchestra and Mixed Voices
Score
Item no.: 190889
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 3685
Lobgesang des Jean Racine Des-Dur op. 11
Stimmensatz (Org-6-5-4-3-3)
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 649570
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 669064
Separate editions from the New Liszt Complete Critical Edition
Két legenda
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256112
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 557993
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Music score
Item no.: 276605
for Clarinet and Orchestra
Arrangement for Clarinet and Piano
for: Clarinet (a), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 433880
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 302533
for flute and piano
Great Performer's Edition
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 244652
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 180027
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316679
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 495399
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 182650
for: Piano, Violin and Cello
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 277801
for: Opera
Book
Item no.: 416709
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 902213
for: Horn, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 245512
for: Trumpet, trombone, organ
Item no.: 184281
for: Oboe
Music score
Item no.: 388934
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 179801
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
Item no.: 117241
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617098
for: Violin, orchestra
Klavierauszug, Stimme
Item no.: 612198
for: 2 guitars
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 617954
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Study score
Item no.: 114068
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 360402
for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 359774
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 359499
The definitive version of Sibelius' Third
JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 4
edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561474
for: Cello, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 158174
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218197
"Spring Symphony"
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217694
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 133579
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 662163
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 350903
Overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collin's Tragedy – Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 336228
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287077
Thi edition replaces the previous volume HN 118
Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609242
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 607377
for: Oboe, piano
Item no.: 268814
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 285282
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 123011
for: Guitar
Score
Item no.: 481777
for: Piano
Item no.: 184998
for: Organ
Item no.: 168652
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 284549
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