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: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 294041
for: 2 violins, viola (trio)
Study score
Item no.: 164875
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Book
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for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Set of parts
Item no.: 164814
for: Violin and Various Instruments
Book
Item no.: 164565
for: 2 Violoncelli and Piano
Book
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Book (softcover)
Item no.: 552760
for: Piano
Item no.: 490916
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 486538
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 602826
for: Saxophon (in Es) und Klavier
Item no.: 566013
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 555229
for: Flute
Item no.: 491980
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 471142
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 1545811
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 613378
for: Piano
Item no.: 610157
for: Cello, strings
Study score
Item no.: 554673
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 487872
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 478849
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 138538
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462751
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 462750
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 462424
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 157273
Complemented by the String Quartet in C major D 46D 72
for: 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons (winds octet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 151297
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 357019
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 314785
for: Sopran, Bass, gemischter Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 1538913
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357609
for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 357587
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 357510
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 357509
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Lyric book
Item no.: 357094
for: Piano
Item no.: 357090
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 356914
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357342
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357339
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 357331
for: Piano
Item no.: 357323
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 357282
Fantasia for 4 Horns (D)
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 357277
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 299060
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Item no.: 193392
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 159529
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 140111
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 357248
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 357231
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