“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
Overture from the incidental music
small orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 358996
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 358989
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391909
Tableaux d'une Exposition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 659188
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 284747
Music Minus One
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 1541582
for: 2 flutes (duet)
Ensemble score
Item no.: 817339
from the Opera Tsar Saltan
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 492919
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163207
Festouvertüre
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391837
Pathétique
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 185787
Autorisierte Erstausgabe
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 228994
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 172809
from Fifth Symphony
for: Horn, piano
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 897226
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 170310
Transcription
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 750203
from "The Nutcracker"
for: Piano 4 hands
Music score
Item no.: 725002
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 159913
Reduction for 2 pianos
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 197741
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 549336
op. 3, 23, 32
G. Schirmer’s Library of Musical Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 208880
for: 2 Violas and Piano
Book
Item no.: 163206
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 156032
for: 2 violins, piano
Item no.: 299118
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 457008
Edition Peters Green Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 378364
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1552161
Piano Solo
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316968
for: Melody instrument (C), guitar
Score, part
Item no.: 662611
Vonósszerenád op. 48
EMB Study Scores
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 256668
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 731829
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 443931
aus dem Klavierzyklus "Bilder einer Ausstellung"
bearbeitet für Orgel
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2293
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Item no.: 363009
Yamashita Edition 1
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 327702
for: Voice (low), piano
Piano/Vocal
Item no.: 1025395
Op. 33 (1876)
for: Trumpet [cornet], piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1282182
10 Auszüge aus der Ballettmusik
aus der Reihe "Klassische Arrangements für Melodieinstrumente"
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 817882
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 582822
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 215227
pour harpe
for: Harp
Music score
Item no.: 669460
Suite für Sprecher und Schulorchester
Partitur mit Text, Klavierauszug und Stimmen
for: Symphonic school orchestra
Score, Piano reduction, Solo parts
Item no.: 343176
für Gesang und Klavier
Ausgabe für Mittlere Stimme
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 136915
LKM Music
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 692531
zen-on piano library
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 166874
für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 287885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 169959
from String Quartet op. 11
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 187413
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