“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.
Variation Nr. 18
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Book
Item no.: 193039
Ouvertüre e-Moll
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano
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for: Organ 4 hands
Ensemble score
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Library Of The Piano Works 5
for: Piano
Item no.: 176986
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 161830
Urtextausgabe mit bezeichneter und unbezeichneter Streicherstimme
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 663038
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 244998
Ausgabe für Violine und Klavier vom Komponisten
for: Violin, piano
Piano reduction, Solo part(s)
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for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Set of parts
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 432905
Full Score
Reprinted from an authoritative early edition
Dover Music Scores
for: Piano, orchestra
Score
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for: Piano 6 hands
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Arrangement
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for Piano
Schott Piano Classics
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Music score
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from "Scheherazade"
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Music score
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Fantaisie Orientale
for: Piano
Solostimme
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aus "Der Nussknacker"
Der Musikalische Salon Vol. 78
for: Streichquartett, Kontrabass (ad libitum)
Score, part
Item no.: 611886
16 great Classics
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, piano
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for: Violin, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1242765
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Sheet music
Item no.: 1242599
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 197743
orchestriert von Maurice Ravel
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 623224
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 472105
Suite Symphonique op. 35
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 605127
10 Auszüge aus der Ballettmusik
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
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Stringsets
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 188746
Selected Highlights from the Solo Piano Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 619758
revidiert vom Komponistenop. 50
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Set of parts
Item no.: 363812
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 339380
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391997
op. 5
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 749000
Mephistos Lied in Auerbachs Keller
for: Voice (low), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1649
aus "Die Jahreszeiten"
für Klarinette und Klavier
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 673371
für Kontrabass und Klavier (Klavierbegleitung in Solo- und Orchesterstimmung)
nach dem 2. Satz aus dem Streichquartett op. 11
for: Double bass, piano
Score, solo part
Item no.: 675519
Two Pianos, Four Hands
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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from Sorochinsky Fair
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Orchestersuite
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Score
Item no.: 432910
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 147956
From the opera 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan'
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 209012
EMB Album Series
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 256564
op. 62
for: Cello, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 356990
aus dem Klavierzyklus "Bilder einer Ausstellung"
for: Piano
Sheet music
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aus dem Streichquartett Nr. 2 D-Dur - Bearbeitung für Violoncello und Klavier
for: Cello, piano
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for: Piano
Music score
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Dover Piano And Keyboard Editions
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Music score
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