“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 776225
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICHINSTRUMENTE QUARTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614729
Easiest Piano Pieces by P. I. Tchaikovsky
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 759440
for: 4 clarinets (B-flat), bass clarinet (B-flat)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1486
from "Nutcracker"
for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
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for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 198033
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 623099
for: Cello [viola], piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197555
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
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for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
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Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326421
for: 3 clarinets, bass clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 678736
für Flöte (Klavierbegleitung als PDF zum Ausdrucken)
for: Flute
Music score, CD
Item no.: 560090
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
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for: Piano, orchestra
Study score, CD
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for: 3 recorders
Sheet music
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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for: Piano
Sheet music
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for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 676416
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
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for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Violin
Solo part, online audio (playback)
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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Original Version
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
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for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
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for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
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for: Violin
Music score
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for: Cello, orchestra
Score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: 2 pianos 8 hands
2 Performance scores
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for: 2 violins, 2 violas, 2 cellos (sextet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 394584
for: 1–2 cellos
Score, Parts
Item no.: 137658
Symphonic Suite
for: Orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 743887
Dushkin Transcriptions
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 720933
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
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for: Clarinet, piano
Sheet music
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for: Cello, piano
Sheet music
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for: Piano, orchestra
Score
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for: Piano
Music score
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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