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: String orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1646570
Lyric book
Item no.: 1714122
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1714115
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1650751
for: Violin, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 1650745
for: 2 voices (Alt [Bariton], Tenor), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552076
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 745492
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647234
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1647959
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1647743
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 770609
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1646993
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1647409
for: Bariton Solo, Chor und Orchester
Partitur und Kritischer Bericht
Item no.: 1012809
The Carnival of the Animals
for: Chamber ensemble
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 773497
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 768392
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 780528
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Keyboard
Item no.: 1621315
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1621241
for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Keyboard
Item no.: 1621218
for: Chor dreistimmig
Item no.: 861561
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009128
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1621088
for: Chor (SA) und Keyboard
Item no.: 1621009
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428077
Tone Poem No. 3
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341087
"The" piano concerto in Urtext – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 561468
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1544859
Traditionelle Bearbeitung für gemischten Chor und Orgel (Streicher und Hörner ad lib.)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; 2 horns, strings ad lib.
Single part Organ
Item no.: 330774
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1019243
for: Clarinet, bassoon, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675218
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 371398
Study score
Item no.: 1345114
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 564341
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 658004
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 635473
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 634514
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 634513
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 666813
for: Cello, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 628956
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 188666
for: Piano 4 hands
Score
Item no.: 854219
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 634559
Overture to the Opera – Dresden Version
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 477010
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 634343
for: Double bass
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 631617
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 631555
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 630079
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