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.
aus: Volkslieder, gesammelt und für vier Männerstimmen gesetzt, Heft VIII, op. 50, Tübingen 1846
bearbeitet für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6366
WAB 17 (1848)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4183
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2291
Mein eigen soll sie sein
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4883
Kanon zu 3 Stimmen
for: Choir (3 voices)
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Item no.: 4072
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4491
aus: 6 Canzoni per 4 voci alla Capella, 1808
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6710
Kanon zu drei Stimmen
for: Choir (3 voices)
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Item no.: 4470
aus: Volkslieder, gesammelt und für vier Männerstimmen gesetzt, Heft VIII, op. 50, Tübingen 1846
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6365
op. 67, Nr. 3
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4352
Frühlingslied, D. 243
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4869
Ich hatte eine Nachtigall
aus: "Am Walchensee", op. 63 (Nr. 6)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4696
nach "Dormi, fili, dormi"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4120
Kanon zu zwei Stimmen
aus: Canons. Zum Schulgebrauche und als Anhang zu jeder Chorgesangschule
Nördlingen, 1866
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
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Item no.: 5858
(Lochamer Liederbuch, um 1450)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4432
Das Fischergewerbe gibt rüstigen Mut!
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4801
Wohin mit der Freud
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4328
Lore-Ley
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3499
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4022
Kanon zu zwei Stimmen aus: Canons. Zum Schulgebrauche und als Anhang zu jeder Chorgesangschule
Nördlingen, 1866
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
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Item no.: 5633
("Heilig ist der Herr Sabaoth")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3446
(Text aus "Winnetou III")
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3050
aus: "Drei Geistliche Chöre für Frauenstimmen" op. 37 (Nr. 1)
for: Women's choir (SSAA) a cappella
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Item no.: 4716
Nr. 4, aus "Sechs Lieder" op. 25
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3696
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SAATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3936
aus "Deutsche Volkslieder"
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1303
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 3)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1981
„Ach, wie soll ich das gestehen“
aus: Sechs Canons zu Drey und Vier Stimmen, Leipzig 1807
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
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Item no.: 6314
Christ ist erstanden!
D. 440
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3854
aus: Vier Tantum ergo für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
Gmunden, 1868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 5762
für gemischten Chor
for: Mixed choir (SATTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 2181
Carol for mixed voices
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3239
op. 41, Nr. 4
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3433
aus "Sechs Lieder im Freien zu singen", op. 59 (1843)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4567
aus: "Les Sept paroles du Christ"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
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Item no.: 5298
Volkslied, WoO 33, Nr. 49
for: Mixed choir (SATB), precentor (medium), piano
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Item no.: 1343
aus: Vier Tantum ergo für Sopran, Alt, Tenor und Bass
Gmunden, 1868
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6181
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 1)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1972
for: Male choir (TTB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4085
D. 386
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1882
Christmas Carol
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
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Item no.: 2292
op. 176, Nr. 9
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1372
aus "Deutsche Volkslieder", WoO 35
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 3482
aus: "Der erste Frühlingstag", op. 48 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 1980
O wundersames tiefes Schweigen
aus "In Feld und Wald" op. 46 (Nr. 2)
for: Mixed choir a cappella
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Item no.: 4681
Zierlich ist des Vogels Tritt im Schnee
op. 59, Nr. 3
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
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Item no.: 4791
Trinkspruch für Männerchor
for: Male choir (TTBB) a cappella
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Item no.: 6011