“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: Accordion orchestra
Accordion 1A (orchestral part)
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für 9 Flöten (Schlagwerk ad lib)
for: 9 flutes; percussion ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 140115
for: 5 saxophones
Item no.: 158748
for: FL KLAR TRP POS
Item no.: 158053
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
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for: Salon orchestra
Item no.: 183915
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 239494
for: Piano
Piano score
Item no.: 291252
for: Accordion orchestra
Score
Item no.: 292729
Klassik
for: Saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 269785
for: Tenor saxophone [soprano saxophone], piano [organ]
Item no.: 299086
for: Piano 3 hands
Item no.: 129079
for: Classical
Buch
Item no.: 249573
(Urtext)
for: Piano
Item no.: 365253
Single part
Item no.: 335541
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428938
Item no.: 620882
Schirmer Performance Editions
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 563594
for: 4 tubas
Score, part
Item no.: 456637
for: Klavier / LEICHT
Item no.: 205377
for: Piano
Item no.: 278436
The great violin solos from the orchestral repertoire with piano accomp.
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 655569
String Attack
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 479179
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 560388
Stylish Arrangements from the Holiday Classic
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 473749
for violin and piano (with analytical studies and exercises by Sevcik)
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 611993
for: Piano 4 hands
Item no.: 244837
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 160807
Lyric Scenes in Three Acts
from The Poem by Pushkin
English Version by Henry Reese
Opera Score Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Transcriptions by Zoltán Kocsis
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197635
66 Songs in Original Keys
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Blasorchester
for: Xylophone & Concert Band
Sheet music
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Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
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Trombone & Piano
for: Trombone, piano
Sheet music
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Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
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Tenorsaxophon und Klavier
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Sheet music
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Bass Posaune & Klavier
for: Bass trombone, piano
Sheet music
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Dover Full Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 348547
Highland / Etling Concert Orchestra Series
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 371598
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 139913
Kalmus Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 179167
für Viola und Harfe (Klavier)
for: KAMMERMUSIK SONSTIGEBESETZUNGEN GEMISCHTE DUOS
Item no.: 301769
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Klassik
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 648443
for violin and piano
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
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Music lesson book
Item no.: 249850
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