“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.
(complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 428942
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428941
für Violoncello und Streicher
Erstdruck
for: Cello, strings
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 339747
for: 4 guitars (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1071512
for: Classical
Buch
Item no.: 249443
for: Violin, piano
Book
Item no.: 367091
Hymnus
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1105752
for: Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella
Item no.: 312600
Klassik
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1183166
TV, Film, Musical und Show
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 946146
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 842973
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163743
Th. 83
for: 4 Bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 830253
from "Boris Godunov"
Faber Brass Band Series
for: Brass band
Score
Item no.: 1651333
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023659
Chanson Triste
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1009869
for: Marching band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1023418
Sinfonia Series
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 956159
Eingangspsalm Preise meine Seele
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1105784
Klassik
for: Clarinet or Trumpet and Piano
Book
Item no.: 971884
for: Harmonium
Music score
Item no.: 1201846
Symphony No. 2 in B minor
Orchestra
for: Symphonic orchestra
Item no.: 1344228
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 258128
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 949494
set of string parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1211921
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 1648799
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1648654
for Clarinet & Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 893797
from the Classical Symphony op. 25
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 634957
for: Double bass, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 581334
from the Serenade for Strings, op. 48
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 901411
for: Cello, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 473895
Blasorchester
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 290881
über ein Thema von Michail Glinka
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 358647
from Snow Maiden
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 132874
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340536
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432654
Geistliche Musik
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1092422
Opus 39, N°21
for: Cello, guitar
Buch
Item no.: 1070607
for: Descant recorder, flute
Ensemble score, solo part
Item no.: 797206
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204741
Book
Item no.: 1204762
for: Brass band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204792
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
Item no.: 1204684
Klassik
for: Voice (low)
Book
Item no.: 1204759
Book
Item no.: 1204705
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