“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.
Band 1, Briefe 1876-1878
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 745061
Musikalisches Volksdrama in 5 Aufzügen
Russische Musik der Moderne
Piano reduction
Item no.: 180269
Konzertwerk
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 947114
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 340534
from 'Mlada'
for: Concert Band/Harmonie and Mixed Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1183314
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665192
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy and Waltz of the Flowers
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 946654
Studienpartitur (2 Bände)
for: BUEHNENWERKE + SZENISCHE WERKE OPER
Item no.: 478756
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472105
form "Pictures at an Exhibition"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1665587
Op. 49
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 762065
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016282
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1016024
Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1018859
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 865672
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1104962
Finale aus "Bilder einer Ausstellung"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1593349
Sinfonia Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 956396
op.91
Festive Music
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 676451
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1259996
for: Trombone, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1559919
From Sadko
for: Fanfare
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1583310
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1319383
Alfred Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1641844
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 942437
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951568
Highland / Etling Concert Orchestra Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 371598
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 973205
Oper in vier Aufzügen mit einem Prolog
Originalfassung
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 286077
for: Concert Band/Harmonie/Fanfare/Brass Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1145542
from Swan Lake
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487302
from Swan Lake
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1668321
aus der Suite "Der Nussknacker"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1560660
from the Opera "The Tale of Tsar Saltan"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198686
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 996197
Original Version
for: Cello, orchestra
Streicherstimmensatz 6 Violine 1, 6 Violine 2, 5 Viola, 4 Violoncello, 3 Kontrabass
Item no.: 782440
Fassung Petipa
for: Piano Reduction
Piano reduction
Item no.: 562818
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1017882
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1562748
Andante Cantabile & Allegro Moderato
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1062703
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1065003
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670456
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670918
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1560849
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1648654
Third Movement Finale
Daehn Publications
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1060718
Solo for Oboe and Band
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1186733
for: Concert Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1189335
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