“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.
Dover Full Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 214908
with marked and unmarked string parts
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 141769
2-CD Piano Play-Along Pack
for: Piano
Music score, online audio
Item no.: 413423
Boosey Masterworks
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 373489
Versions 1913 and 1931
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 679499
Second Edition
Band 3
for: Piano, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 772270
for: 9 Klarinetten oder Klarinetten Chor
Score
Item no.: 638245
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1202665
Originalfassung
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Cello, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 488676
The great violin solos from the orchestral repertoire with piano accomp.
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 655569
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 636617
Transcriptions by Zoltán Kocsis
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197635
Dover Miniature Scores
Study score
Item no.: 184038
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 470230
op. 3, no. 2
for: Piano
Item no.: 617084
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 972356
for: Percussion Sextet
Score, Parts
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A.A.A.T.
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 971726
"How fair this spot!"
for: Voice (soprano), piano
Music score
Item no.: 462507
from 'Pictures at an Exhibition'
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 871841
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 675374
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
Item no.: 318132
'Procession of the Princes' [from Mlada]
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1208825
Easier Piano Pieces 02
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 223468
66 Songs in Original Keys
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 149614
MusicWorks Grade 3
for: Concert band
Score, set of parts, online audio
Item no.: 811865
Brass Ensemble
for: Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 812437
MusicWorks Grade 3
for: Concert band
Score
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Rubank Solo-Ensemble Sheet
for: Klarinettenensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1107030
Curnow Music Concert Band
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 957191
Tschaikowsky's berühmte Ballettmusik als swingendes Jazzarrangement
für Klarinettenquartett oder variables Bläserquartett mit optionaler Rhythmusgruppe
for: Flexible wind ensemble (4 voices); rhythm group ad lib.
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1657468
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 45
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1550313
28 Selected Piano Pieces
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Music score
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1655620
für Orchester (Chor ad lib)
Studienpartitur (kyr)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
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Walzer
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
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for: Choir
Score
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bass / piano
for: Double bass, piano
Book
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Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 912223
Klassik
for: 3 Bb Clarinets and Bass Clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1531027
S.A.T.B. Chorus With Optional Keyboard
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1626075
Blasorchester
Partitur und Stimmen
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 899445
Sound Spectacular
70 Repertoire Favorities for Young Players
for: Trumpet; piano ad lib.
Music score
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Blasorchester
Partitur
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 903025
Walzer
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1643161
for: 3 trumpets
Buch
Item no.: 935549
Suite in 6 Sätzen
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1682104
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