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.
Op. 14
for: Piano
Sheet music
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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op. 447
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Piano score, Solo part (pdf download)
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plus Liedtexte
for: Viola, piano
2 Performance scores
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für Steichquartett
Thema und 14 Variationen über die Melodie von Mildred J. Hill
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108677
Exercises 1–20
Schirmer Library of Musical Classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 274489
with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401407
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401362
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 565554
for: Piano
Music score
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Critical Edition of the Orchestral Music, Volume 1
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
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Chor & Orgel
for: Soli, Gemischter Chor, Orgel
Organ reduction
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Chopin National Edition
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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Revised edition by Michael Pilkington
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for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Organ reduction
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Bärenreiter Urtext
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
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Musica Mundi 14
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, piano (piano quintet)
Score, Parts
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for: Organ
Music score
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op. 38
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 630406
Forty Etudes
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for: Cello
Music score
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Piano reduction, solo parts
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Score
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Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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Urtext
for: Piano
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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Edition from the first edition.
Provided with notes on the practical use
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 125096
for: 2 pianos
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
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bearbeitet
for: Voice (medium), 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
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Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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CHORBUCH
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Piano score, solo part
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Music score
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National Edition
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Study score (Urtext edition)
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Critical Edition of the Orchestral Music, Volume 3
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
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National Edition Series A Volume 7
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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Study edition commented by Alfred Cortot
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Music score
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Critical report on all versions by Paul Hawkshaw
in English, includes detailed introduction in German
2 Books
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Hugo Wolf Gesamtausgabe (Complete edition)
for: Voice, piano
Music score
Item no.: 417819
Urtext Primo – A new concept for the beginner
Edition with German and English Commentary
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Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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with marked and unmarked string parts
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 344072
(Urtext)
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Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617082
for Piano and Clarinet
Version for Violoncello
Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401401
"When at night I go to sleep" from "Hansel and Gretel"
for: Sopran, Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier
Music score
Item no.: 738103
for: Organ
Sheet music
Item no.: 2086
für Klavier
for: Piano
Item no.: 285717
aus der Ballettmusik „Der Nussknacker“, op. 71
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1689
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