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, piano
Score, Parts
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for: 4 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (double quartet)
Study score (Urtext edition)
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Leichte bis mittelschwere Transkriptionen des Budapester Domorganisten
for: Organ
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 778194
No. 63–85
for: Cello
Music score
Item no.: 380374
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 409804
for: Cello, piano
Score, part
Item no.: 158174
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 148688
for: Organ
Single edition
Item no.: 395235
for flute and piano
Great Performer's Edition
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Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 244652
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin
Music score
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for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 388498
for Piano
Level 2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 111085
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401215
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 401238
Mit Kritischem Bericht (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401234
Thi edition replaces the previous volume HN 118
Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 609242
for: Piano, Violin and Cello
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 277801
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 432504
Two copies needed for performance
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401413
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197642
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 144346
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 606057
Separate editions from the New Liszt Complete Critical Edition
Két legenda
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 256112
for: Horn, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 179801
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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with marked and unmarked string parts
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Chorpartitur, Sammelband
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(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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Tableaux d'une Exposition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (anthology)
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Edition Schott
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Set of parts
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for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Set of parts
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1861/62
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Complete edition)
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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6 Volumes in a Slipcase
for: Piano
6 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 561232
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score (Urtext edition)
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for: Bass clarinet, piano
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for: Organ
Item no.: 148785
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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