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.
Masterpiece Edition
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 972541
Prefazione e revisione di Luca Battioni
Traduzione inglese di Simon Horn
for: Classical guitar
Music lesson book
Item no.: 1672513
für gemischten Chor a cappella
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1689985
Vereinfachte Klavierbegleitung von Philip Lehmann
dumb it down
for: Viola, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1672554
D 950
Arrangement for chamber orchestra
for: 5 soloists (SATTB), mixed choir (SSATTBB), orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1659430
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 1672750
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1667599
Vereinfachte Klavierbegleitung von Philip Lehmann
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1681203
Arrangement for soli, choir and 2 pianos and timpani ad lib
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), 2 pianos; timpani ad lib.
Score
Item no.: 1682061
Edition for Medium Voice
for: Voice (medium), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690713
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Chamber ensemble
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1689631
for: Bassoon, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678030
Urtextausgabe
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1687890
for: Violin, orchestra
Piano reduction, solo part
Item no.: 1660327
Bearbeitung für zwei Organisten
von Alexander Därr
for: Organ 4 hands
2 music scores
Item no.: 1689887
I.-V./VI. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1673777
Offertorium aus der Missa sacra op. 147
for: Voice (soprano), cello, organ
Score, Parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1682208
Vereinfachte Klavierbegleitung von Philip Lehmann
dumb it down
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1672553
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Clarinet, horn, bassoon, violin, viola, cello, double bass (septet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 1666896
über ein Thema von Franz Schubert
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1671670
op. 20
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1646574
Vol. 26: Letters of 1874
Complete Letters in 35 Volumes and Supplements
Book (Hardcover)
Item no.: 1665541
nach Georges Bizet
édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 53
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1690145
Ouvertüre
für Akkordeon (MII)
for: Accordion
Music score
Item no.: 1684497
Vereinfachte Klavierbegleitung von Philip Lehmann
dumb it down
for: Saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1681199
aus „Albumblätter“
I. – VII. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1697141
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1684583
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1646566
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1678211
op. 60
ein unterhaltsames Gesprächskonzert für Kinder (und Erwachsene) in einer vereinfachten, leicht(er) spielbaren Fassung
for: Narrator, organ
Score
Item no.: 1697031
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690684
Nr. WWV 64 und 95
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 1667601
Brahms – Mozart – Cherubini
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
3 CDs
Item no.: 1681518
I.-IV./V. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1673778
op. 20
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1646575
Bearbeitung für zwei Organisten
Notenheft Vol. 1 im Set zu zwei Heften
for: Organ 4 hands
2 music scores
Item no.: 1689959
"Dich preist, Allmächtiger"
LoWV 5
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1689440
Edition for Low Voice
for: Voice (low), piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690714
for: String orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1646582
op. 20
for: String orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1646568
Op. 147
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score
Item no.: 1670853
Overture – First printing posthumously 1851 (Rietz)
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1665556
revidierte Ausgabe
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1690691
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1689572
aus „Bagatellen“
I. – IV. Lage
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1697142
from “Schwanengesang” D 957
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1646586