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: Flute
Score
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for: Voice, piano
OTHER
Item no.: 922836
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 1096170
Shawnee Press
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 825178
für Brass Quintet
Edition Maulwurf
for: 5 brass winds
Item no.: 1672425
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1141642
for: Trumpet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1140324
dramma lirico in four acts
Reprint
Opera Explorer
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Oboe and Wind Orchestra
Piano reduction
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Book
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 878502
Chant et piano
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 878014
Volume 5
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Item no.: 1565737
Klassik
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1194725
National-Emerson Fred Bock
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002665
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1141328
BOVACO Vocal Solo
for: Voice, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1020906
for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1066700
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1140582
From
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 956972
Comic Opera in 3 Acts
Lyric book
Item no.: 755876
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 1164075
(Ave Verum): S.A.T.B., A Cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1625837
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1140756
Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 881847
Streichorchester
Partitur
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 892536
for: Flute
Score
Item no.: 852639
for: Tenor saxophone (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part, playback-CD
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Klassik
for: Voice, piano
Music score
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N. 11: Ombre Legere
for: Voice, piano
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1096571
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Book
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Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Voice, piano
Music score
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Gegenwartsmusik
for: Small Wind Ensemble
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1163746
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
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for: Marching band
Score, Parts
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for: Concert Band and Vocal Soloist
Score
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From Il Travatore
for: Concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1143107
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Book
Item no.: 1212135
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
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for: gemischter Chor (SATB) und Keyboard
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Klassik
for: Classical guitar
Music score
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for: Alto saxophone (E-flat)
Music score
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for: Organ
Music score
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for: Concert band
Score
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