The turn of the 19th century saw the dawn of Romanticism. This artistic and cultural movement was constantly striving for new ideas and new beginnings, during a particularly turbulent time in social, political and natural history. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore all the romantic masters and their works today.
The reason and order of the classical period were balanced out in the romantic period by emotion and imagination. The word romanticism is derived from the French literary terms roman and romantique. Programme music uses melodies and instrumental colours to tell a story, to take the listener on a musical journey. The most prominent of all program music is undoubtedly the symphonic poem, created, explored and developed by composers such as Franz Liszt and Bedřich Smetana.
Compared to the Classical Period, the melodies of the romantic period became less and less regular and symmetrical, and the harmony more and more chromatic and dissonant. As the romantic period progressed, the possibilities of traditional tonality became more and more exhausted, and the beginning of the 20th century saw the departure from classical structure and form, and the movement towards modern and contemporary classical music.
In order to broaden the sound palate which set the mood and atmosphere for the romantic period, new instruments began to appear in the orchestra, and voices began to be deployed, choirs and soloists began to be introduced into traditional instrumental works. Throughout the 19th century, the fashion was expansion, both in music for Symphony Orchestra and in Choral Music, the forces grew and grew, far beyond the imagination of any of the classical composers of the previous century.
In the 19th century, Opera flourished, be it Italian verismo, French "Grand Opera", or Wagner’s new world of music theatre. The most important opera composers of the 19th century were Giacomo Meyerbeer, Gioacchino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, Vincenzo Bellini, Jacques Offenbach, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi.
for: Cello
Book
Item no.: 941541
for: Opera
Piano reduction
Item no.: 941496
for: Voice
Book
Item no.: 942194
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 942054
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943304
Marsch
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943078
Konzertwerk
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943003
Jazz
for: Jazz ensemble
Score
Item no.: 944321
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 944182
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 944092
for: Saxophone
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 943964
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 943963
Sudien und Übungen
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 941347
for: Chamber Trio
Book
Item no.: 941135
Organ
for: SATTB
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 924259
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 924091
from The Nutcracker Suite
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 912126
for: Trombone
Music score
Item no.: 910283
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 908795
for: Clarinet
Music score
Item no.: 927955
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 895193
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 894432
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 893363
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 893167
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 892703
Sonata quasi una fantasia Moonlight
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 891798
Konzertwerk
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 890540
A Ballet in a Prologue and Three Acts
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 886532
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 898385
for: Piano
[deutsch, englisch, französisch, italienisch, spanisch]
Item no.: 468920
Konzertwerk
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 948481
Konzertwerk
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 948458
Konzertwerk
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 948199
Konzertwerk
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 948141
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 948022
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 947635
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 947622
Klassik
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 967090
from The Nutcracker Ballet
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 948954
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 948753
Konzertwerk
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 948719
2 Polkas
for: Concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 1566929
Highland Etling
Item no.: 612470
Simply Classics
Item no.: 611860
25 Progressive Etüden Op. 100
for: Piano
Music score (anthology)
Item no.: 608070
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