“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: 5 clarinets (quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1667301
Original für Klavier
for: 4 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 644401
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963526
Nr. 20 Arie des Fürsten Greminop. 24
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 1539076
sinfonisches Blasorchester
Direktion
for: Concert band
Direktion
Item no.: 890600
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951755
Goodmusic Concert Classics
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 951604
aus "Die Zarenbraut"
for: Voice (high), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 358835
aus dem Streichquartett op. 11CW 348
for: Piano
Item no.: 1356770
Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Orchestra
Taschenpartitur
Item no.: 1356754
for: Violin, guitar
Book
Item no.: 173542
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Study score
Item no.: 164771
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Book
Item no.: 164752
für 2 Violinen, 2 Viola und 2 Violoncelli
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICHINSTRUMENTE SEXTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1344334
for: Accordion orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 292731
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1591221
from "Album für die Jugend"
for: Flute, oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon (wind quintet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1631908
Walzer
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 963726
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988456
Klassik
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 988085
Ein Miesterwerk im Spiegel seiner Zeit
Heft + Medienpaket
Im Fokus (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
Item no.: 614384
op.37b
for: Clarinet, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1204054
for: 4 Bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1345620
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 563849
for: Piano
Item no.: 189220
for: 2 pianos
Item no.: 403763
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 493654
Nr. 8 Romanze Paulinens und russisches Liedop. 68
for: Voice, piano
Item no.: 299060
from "The Nutcracker"
Correlates with Band Expressions 2
for: Winds class [youth concert band]
Score, Parts
Item no.: 744995
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 909304
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 939223
for: Piano
Single edition
Item no.: 888676
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 850186
for: String orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 943504
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 943926
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 129202
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Set of parts
Item no.: 164804
Book
Item no.: 1203634
for: 2 violins, piano
Item no.: 343787
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 562091
for: Piano
Item no.: 610157
for: 3 flutes (trio)
Buch
Item no.: 226519
complete version
for: Brass ensemble (17 parts), percussion
Score
Item no.: 1665174
Band 39c (kritischer Bericht) (Critical Report)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book (critical commentary, hardcover)
Item no.: 149677
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score
Item no.: 963463
for: Concert band
Score
Item no.: 939722
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 945569
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