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: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 161314
Klassik
for: 12 Cellos
Book
Item no.: 984449
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695380
Romantische Oper in drei Akten
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 188350
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 271197
Altenglisches Lied
for: Orchestra
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 1545325
for Violoncello and Orchestra
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, orchestra
Book (critical commentary)
Item no.: 421857
Walzer
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 283596
12 pièces op.18 pour orgue avec pédale obligée ou piano a clavier de pedales
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 674646
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 237312
Op. 46, No. 1
Very Beginning String Orchestra
for: Youth string orchestra; piano, percussion ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 761922
for high voice and piano
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 680161
(Auswahl)op. 103
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1546246
aus "Aida"
for: Salon orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 283607
Beginning String Orchestra
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 609082
for: Piano
[deutsch, englisch, französisch, italienisch, spanisch]
Item no.: 468919
Serenade "Trommler, lass dein Kalbfell klingen"op. 102
for: Männerchor (TTBB) mit Solo (T) und kleines Orchester
Set of parts
Item no.: 1545055
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 271266
Die Zyklen op. 10 und op. 12 (Ped.)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 487968
Complete Works 15
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 261606
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 843852
Alte Musik (Leuckartiana)
for: Oboe, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 314766
Fantasia quasi Sinfonia für Orchester
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1017412
Sinfonia (Ouverture)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 489925
Die Offertorien (Ped.)
for: Organ
Item no.: 136649
Concert Overture
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 170159
op. 139
Stimmensatz
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 138476
Les auto-transcriptions, La Toccata op.43/13
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 656021
Ausgewählte Orgelwerke
(Urtext)
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 658386
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 984249
from "A Midsummer night's dream"
Hawkes School Series HSS 102
for: school orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 645743
Potpourri
for: Orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 276313
Lied der alten Mutter, op. 101/7(1895) und 55/4(1880)
for: Salon orchestra
Piano conductor, orchestral parts
Item no.: 283630
Stücke für Orgel oder Harmonium op. 14 und 57 (Man. und Ped.)
for: Organ
Item no.: 348612
for: Opera
Piano reduction
Item no.: 939292
FJH String Orchestra
for: String instrument
Score, Parts
Item no.: 967579
Urtextausgabe
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 683712
Klassik
for: Soloists, Choir and Piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 921030
WoO 14
for: Orchestra
Stimmensatz
Item no.: 210889
wie es (vielleicht) Ludwig van Beethoven vertont hätte
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet) [string orchestra]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 495301
for: Classical guitar
Item no.: 269847
Chorale cantata
Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
Urtext
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 687839
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1381232
op. 51; Da Israel aus Ägypten zog
Stimmensatz
for: Women's choir (SSAA) [male choir (ttbb)], orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 235339
from Requiem in D Minor
for: String orchestra; harp ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559655
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 844040
Orchestra Expressions' Series
for: Youth string orchestra, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 761977
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 763415
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