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.
für Violoncello und Orgel
for: Cello, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 556132
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet), harmonium, piano
Score
Item no.: 155585
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 163555
op. 462, Nr. 2
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
Item no.: 1532
Erstausgabe
for: Flute, violin, viola, cello (flute quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 325987
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 361083
1835-1892
Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Study score
Item no.: 190138
Arie (Engel) aus dem Oratorium "Elias", op. 70
bearbeitet für Alt-Solo und Orgel (dt./en.)
for: Voice (alto), organ
Sheet music, audio files
Item no.: 2077
Die weiße Taube
Unterlegblatt für 6-Akkordzither
for: Zither (6 chords)
Backing sheet
Item no.: 146773
Edition for Bassoon and piano
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 113750
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE VIOLA VIOLA UND KLAVIER
Item no.: 472037
bearbeitet für Singstimme und Streichquartett
FWV 61
for: Voice (medium), string quartet [string orchestra]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 4876
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 586174
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 674549
Mattinata
for: Voice (high), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 3245
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 495707
Ausgabe für Flöte und Klavier
for: Flute, piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 418092
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 143072
für Gesang und Klavier
Original-Ausgabe für Hohe Stimme
Lieder in 3 Bänden, Urtext, Band 2 (Sammelband, Urtextausgabe) (Collection, Urtext)
for: Voice (high), piano
Music score
Item no.: 360078
Vorbereitung zu den melodischen Übungsstücken op. 45
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 124368
aus der Operette "Orphée aux enfers"
for: 2 violins [flute, clarinet (B-flat)], cello [bassoon], harpsichord [piano]
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1526
for: Flute, clarinet, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 302771
Légende dramatique in four parts
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, choir, children's choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 205556
Fantasie und Fuge über den Choral Ad nos ad salutarem undam
Universal Orgel Edition
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 172743
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 612149
for: Clarinet, 2 violins, viola, cello
Score, Parts
Item no.: 268853
Heft 2: Sechs Sonaten op. 5, sechs Sonaten op. 6
for: Violin, guitar
Item no.: 186350
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 165298
op. 46/3, 6, 8
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 182946
für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 660065
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 781455
Based on the Critical Complete Edition of the Complete Works, published by International Gustav Mahler Society, Vienna
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 113102
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391917
Sinfonik des 19. Jahrhunderts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 796085
für Singstimmen (S/A) mit Klavierbegleitung
Text: J. W. von Goethe
for: 2 voices (SA), piano
Score
Item no.: 191634
Melodramma in un atto
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction (Hardcover)
Item no.: 128194
for: 2 violins, 2 violas, cello
Study score
Item no.: 391552
Solo Music For Recorder
for: Treble recorder
Music score
Item no.: 176109
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 170351
for: Double bass, piano
Score
Item no.: 265333
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 894875
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 689794
(Urtext)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 184253
Band 2: Transkriptionen von William Thomas Best
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 168080
for: Organ [piano]
Music score
Item no.: 101322
for: STREICH- UND ZUPFINSTRUMENTE KONTRABASS KONTRABASS SOLO
Item no.: 138118
für Violine und Orchester
Partitur zu beiden Fassungen (1844/1845)
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 676385
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