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: Mixed choir a cappella
Vocal score
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for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
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for: 2–8 Percussionists
Score, Set of parts
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for: Accordion orchestra
Score
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Item no.: 614427
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Viola (orchestral part)
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
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Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
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for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 618663
Ensemble Ad Libitum 32
Item no.: 618538
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 627378
für Flöte
for: Flute; piano ad lib.
Item no.: 626429
Overture to Goethe's “Hermann und Dorothea”
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623486
for: 2 flutes, guitar
Music score
Item no.: 623314
Motetten 8
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 632190
for: Blechbläser
Partitur, Stimmen
Item no.: 621875
(complete)
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 326186
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 324175
Hymnen und Choräle
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 325056
Klassik
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 325023
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 312853
for: Flute, Violin and 2 Guitars
Score
Item no.: 300852
for: Flute, Violin and 2 Guitars
Score
Item no.: 300849
for: Piano 6 hands
Item no.: 302593
for: Symphonic orchestra
Buch
Item no.: 302318
Erstdruck
Erstdruck
for: KB 2 VL VA VC (KB)
Score
Item no.: 304836
zusammen mit Lang, H.: Der alte Sünder
for: Concert band
Item no.: 304458
for: GES-M STR
Score
Item no.: 311642
Kammermusik Vol 3b~Kritische Ausgabe Bd 2/3b
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Partitur, Leineneinband, Stimmen-Set
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for: Accordion orchestra
Single part Accordion 1, 2
Item no.: 126475
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 289800
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
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Frühmorgens, wenn die Hähne krähn
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 272076
Sopran/Alt
ChorSolo part(s)
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Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 262016
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 265498
for: Piano, orchestra
5 Study scores
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Choir score
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Berliner musikwissenschaftliche Arbeiten 9
for: Piano
Book (Hardcover)
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for: Violin
Item no.: 247191
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