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.
National Edition - Miniature Edition
for: Piano
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684120
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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(complete)
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Harmony parts (complete winds)
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 359774
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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Score, Parts
Item no.: 359549
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score, online playback
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 243500
for: 2 VL VC KLAV ORG
Score, Parts
Item no.: 182380
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 343320
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 170310
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 464272
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 477547
Overture from the incidental music
small orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 358996
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 358989
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1540794
for: 2 violins, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 193585
for: Guitar
Item no.: 355194
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Horn, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Organ
Single edition
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391646
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 391401
for: Flute
Item no.: 393411
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
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for: 2 cellos
Item no.: 352394
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 287077
for: Piano
Item no.: 166583
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: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 218197
(Urtext)
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Score
Item no.: 133579
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Score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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for: Voice (low), piano
Item no.: 565588
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 408589
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 460644
for: Alt und Kammerorchester oder Klavier
Piano reduction
Item no.: 287454
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 432664
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