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: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 302881
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Item no.: 294888
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294111
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294082
Miniature Score Series
Study score
Item no.: 296011
for: VL STR QUINTETT
Score, Parts
Item no.: 293847
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 296580
"The" piano concerto in Urtext – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Piano, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 561465
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 562252
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 292174
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 292172
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 292160
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 291745
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 289797
for: Cello
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 191666
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 191665
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 191530
nach Robert Schumann. Neue Ausgabe sämtlicher Werke, Band I/2,1op. 54
for: Piano, orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 560112
VorspielWWV 96
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 192081
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 191866
for: Choir
Piano reduction
Item no.: 192809
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 225695
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 225281
A text-critical edition “based on the sources” of this work which was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223573
Walzer nach den Motiven der Operette "Das Spitzentuch der Königin"op. 388
for: Salon orchestra
Single part Viola
Item no.: 223430
for: Violin, viola, cello, piano
Item no.: 216541
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Flexible Windensemble and Piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 490413
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 209933
for: Salon orchestra
Additional parts
Item no.: 209576
for: 2 violins, viola, 2 cellos (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 489329
for: Accordion
Item no.: 213374
Introduktion (Andante con espressione) und Thema (als Swing)
for: Accordion solo, accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 4
Item no.: 212860
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 211013
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 210772
for: AKK ORCH / STIMMEN / ST
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 210326
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 213612
for: Cello
Item no.: 189096
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 188953
Wiener Melange
for: 2 VL VA KB (VC)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 188846
for: STR QUARTETT / 2 VL VA VC
Score, Parts
Item no.: 189726
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189523
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 427932
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 227111
for: BFL QUARTETT (ATTB) 2 GES KLAV
Item no.: 225095
Urtext-Edition
for: Clarinet, bassethorn [2 clarinets], orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229324
Urtext-Edition
for: Clarinet, bassethorn [2 clarinets], orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229321
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 228936
for: Accordion
Single edition
Item no.: 221511
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