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: Violin
Buch + CD
Item no.: 477338
from Holberg Suite
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 759070
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 388444
Edition for Violin and Piano
Standard Violin Student Repertoire – Masterfully taught by Zakhar Bron
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, DVD
Item no.: 562315
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 318161
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1345292
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 697259
for: Voice (low), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 260960
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674555
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 285354
for: Flute Trio and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 186780
op. 89
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1557187
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 245931
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 781480
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 649886
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 117787
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 444129
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256606
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 443587
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 360112
for piano solo
Separate Edition from the New Liszt Complete Critical Edition
for: Piano
Item no.: 184916
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 395134
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 316200
New edition with supplementary exercises
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Piano
Music lesson book
Item no.: 382325
for: Voice, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1018364
European choral music of the 19th century
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 669171
Urtext Primo – A new concept for the beginner
Edition with German and English Commentary
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition, anthology)
Item no.: 629867
for: 1–3 cellos
2 Scores for playing, Playback-CD
Item no.: 664668
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 235861
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 235743
English version by P. Catty
Book (reprint)
Item no.: 140556
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 617050
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 962108
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 395519
for: Violin
Music score, CD
Item no.: 471124
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 697175
for: Voice, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1615843
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 324223
Selection of original pieces and transcriptions
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 499283
from the opera "Der Freischütz"
for: Male choir (TTBB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 317528
Lyric book
Item no.: 318295
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316362
Edition for Violin and Piano
Standard Violin Student Repertoire – Masterfully taught by Zakhar Bron
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, DVD
Item no.: 609918
Edition for Violin and Piano
Standard Violin Student Repertoire – Masterfully taught by Zakhar Bron
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part, DVD
Item no.: 562316
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 376854
for: Trombone in C [euphonium]
Music lesson book
Item no.: 433805
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score
Item no.: 195080
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 316240
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