“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: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214559
In Full Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
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aus der Ballettmusik „Der Nussknacker“, op. 71
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1689
for: Bassoon, piano
Item no.: 205842
Ouvertüre
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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The Masters Collection
Music lesson book
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Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 369296
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
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Score
Item no.: 430029
Dover Full Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214908
with marked and unmarked string parts
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 141769
Russian Dance
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 724088
Hans von Bülow gewidmet, Ausgabe für 2 Klaviere
for: 2 pianos
Piano score
Item no.: 378356
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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Urtext Edition, clothbound
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Music score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
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EMB Moments Musicaux for Violoncello 6
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198033
In Full Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244779
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367054
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 164474
"Pathétique"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 432906
The Masterworks Library
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 401578
in Full Score
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 243709
Variation Nr. 18
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 349923
Winterträume
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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Prüfungsliteratur
for: Piano
Music score
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(Urtext)
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Edition Schott Einzelausgabe
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Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Breitkopf Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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op. 33 1st and 2nd Versions, op. 39 (SR 64)
Rachmaninoff Practical Urtext Editions 4
for: Piano
Music score
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Boosey Masterworks
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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2-CD Piano Play-Along Pack
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Music score, online audio
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Versions 1913 and 1931
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689794
from The Nutcracker
for: Piano
Music score
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Klassik
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Ballett
for: Piano 4 hands
Book
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Symphonic-Concert Band Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Hands-on Activities for exploring Tschaikowsky's Ballet
Active Listening Lessons
for: Voices (body percussion), drums
Music score, CD
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Easy arrangement for Piano
for: Piano
Music score
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from Swan Lake
for: Cello, piano
Music score
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Second Edition
Band 3
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Score (with critical report)
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Bb
for: Piano
Piano Solo
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Pathétique
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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from the Opera Tsar Saltan
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 492919
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