“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 Oboe and Military Band
for: Oboe and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198244
for Soprano Saxophone and Military Band
for: Soprano Saxophone and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198570
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198219
4. Finale. Adagio lamentoso
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198451
for Trombone and Military Band
for: Tombone and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198466
for Clarinet and Military Band
for: Clarinet and Symphonic Band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198679
Overture
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198646
New Sounds for Concert Band 138
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 689242
Sinfonia Series
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 957497
opus 65
Amstel Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208938
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1262141
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1262064
for: Xylophone & Concert Band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1261942
Sinfonisches Melodram
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 206630
Night On The Bare Mountain
Cine Magic
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 592330
Casse-Noisette / Der Nussknacker
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315408
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590735
Brass Band
for: Trombone, brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 590811
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 592715
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 667591
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 588748
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587689
With Organ Solo
for: Organ, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1315143
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595516
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587678
score and parts
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592728
Trumpet Solo & Concert Band
for: Trumpet, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314504
BOVACO Classic CB
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1012939
(complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 374998
from Swan Lake
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 900997
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 670477
Second edition
Band 4
for: Piano, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 772275
Erste Fassungop. 23?W 53
for: Piano, orchestra
Klavierauszug
Item no.: 1544433
for: Symphonic orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 949452
(complete)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 428942
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587528
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 596864
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 592710
Blasorchester
for: Clarinet, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589373
Clarinet & String Orchestra
for: Clarinet, string orchestra
Sheet music
Item no.: 1313041
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 1314711
Blasorchester
for: Concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587610
Blasorchester
for: Xylophone & Concert Band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587743
from Symphony no.1
MusicWorks Grade 5
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 683293
for: Concert band
Conductors part, set of parts
Item no.: 890432
Cortège from the Opera "Mlada"
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 311690
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1198672
from "The Snow Maiden"
Symphonic Band
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 955995
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