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.
Item no.: 614427
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 331937
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 465196
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Score
Item no.: 613239
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 612986
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 611230
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332523
Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332509
o sia Il consiglio dei tre
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 612623
for: Clarinet, chamber orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 611554
Bärenreiter Urtext
Instrumentation 1. Flute, 2. Flute (Piccolo flute), Oboe (2), 1. Clarinet (in B), 2. Clarinet (in A), Bassoon (2), Horn (3), Trumpet (2), Trombone (3), Tuba, Triangle, Timpani
for: Cello, orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 616011
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 618663
Ensemble Ad Libitum 32
Item no.: 618538
for: Flute
Single part Flute
Item no.: 622791
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 627378
für Flöte
for: Flute; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 626429
Overture to Goethe's “Hermann und Dorothea”
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623486
for: 2 flutes, guitar
Music score
Item no.: 623314
Motetten 8
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632190
for: Blechbläser
Partitur, Stimmen
Item no.: 621875
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 327663
(complete)
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 326186
Sechs Sonaten
for: 2 violins [violin, viola], cello, double bass
Single part Cello
Item no.: 326135
Sechs Sonaten
for: 2 violins [violin, viola], cello, double bass
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 326133
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 324175
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325056
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 325023
String Symphony MWV N 11
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 300093
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 312853
Walzerop. 161
for: Salon orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 300442
Walzerop. 83
for: Salon orchestra
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 297811
for: Flute, Violin and 2 Guitars
Score
Item no.: 300852
for: Flute, Violin and 2 Guitars
Score
Item no.: 300849
Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
Item no.: 298349
Liedsätze für gleiche Stimmen
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 312698
for: Piano 6 hands
Item no.: 302593
Ouvertüre
for: Salon orchestra
Salonorchester-Ergänzung (Zusatzstimmen für großes Orchester)
Item no.: 304255
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 302318
Erstdruck
Erstdruck
for: KB 2 VL VA VC (KB)
Score
Item no.: 304836
Erstdruck
Erstdruck
for: Horn, piano
Item no.: 304617
zusammen mit Lang, H.: Der alte Sünder
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304458
Walzer aus Die Landstreicher
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304439
Ouverture
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304435
f. Hr., Vl., 2 Vla. u. Vc. Erstdruck
Erstdruck
for: HRN VL 2 VA VC
Score
Item no.: 304975
for: GES-M STR
Score
Item no.: 311642
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