“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.
for Piano
Schott Piano Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1690868
Item no.: 1653481
Tschaikowsky's berühmte Ballettmusik als swingendes Jazzarrangement
für Klarinettenquartett oder variables Bläserquartett mit optionaler Rhythmusgruppe
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices); rhythm group ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 246694
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 358747
for: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667301
für 2 Hackbrettspieler
for: Dulcimer
Music score
Item no.: 1653545
LKM Music
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 877202
The Orchestra Musician's CD-ROM Library - Cello
for: Cello
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1204384
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678030
Piano Large Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 316419
for: 2 violins, piano
Item no.: 343787
From Nutcracker
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1299150
Musica Rara (Breitkopf)
for: 2–4 horns
Score, Parts
Item no.: 350516
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 403763
Konzertwerk
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 129202
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 360544
for: Clarinet, piano
Item no.: 1020831
Zehn Stücke
for: Piano
Item no.: 287398
Tschaikowsky's berühmte Ballettmusik als swingendes Jazzarrangement
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices); rhythm group ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1653719
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668030
Sinfonisches Melodram für Streichorchester
Partitur, Text und Stimmen
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1671134
In Full Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1678600
Flight of the Bumble Bees
for: 4 clarinets
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1664511
for: Voice (medium), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 358824
for mixed chorus a cappella
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 148321
Fingersatz und spielpraktische Einrichtung von Lev Vinocourop. 40
for: Piano
Item no.: 462738
EMB Album Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197681
for: Flute, violin, viola, cello (flute quartet)
Item no.: 1682090
EMB Moments Musicaux for Violoncello 6
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678202
for: Violin, piano; violin, cello, double bass ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 488660
Kalmus Edition
for: Trombone, concert band
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 899949
for: 4 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 607279
for: 2 pianos
2 Performance scores
Item no.: 161410
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 197740
aus "Die Legende der unsichtbaren Stadt Kitesch und der Jungfrau Fewronia"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 359012
In Commemoration of Viktor Hartmann. Edited from the autograph
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 125067
For (High) Voice and Piano
for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 1652243
Nr. 7 The Six Psalms
The Monuments of Russian Sacred Music
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 640828
Nach dem Erstdruck herausgegeben
for: 2 violins, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 498938
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 358930
for: Oboe [flute], violin, cello, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 343786
for: Cello, guitar
Sheet music
Item no.: 1301332
Thema aus dem 3. Satz
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 168567
Orientalische Fantasie
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1671145
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 176534
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 358746
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 217475
aus Streichquartett 1 – für Violoncello und Streichquintett (1888)
Unbekannte Werke der Klassik und Romantik 910
for: Cello solo, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Score
Item no.: 1670469
© 2004–2024 by Stretta Music. Order and buy sheet music online.
Your specialist for all kinds of sheet music. Online shop, sheet music, music scores and play along for download, books, music stands, music stand lights, accessories.
There is a separate Stretta website for the country Worldwide. If your order is to be delivered to this country, you can switch, so that delivery times and shipping conditions are displayed correctly. Your shopping cart and your customer account will remain the same.
switch to Stretta Music Worldwide
stay on Stretta Music Denmark
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Netherlands
Belgium
France
Luxembourg
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Finland
Sweden
Poland
Czech Republic
United Kingdom
