“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.
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for: Clarinet
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CD-ROM
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for: Clarinet, piano
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Music score
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for: Piano
Music score
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in a simple arrangement for piano
Get to Know Classical Masterpieces
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for: Piano
Score
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édition bon(n)orgue Vol. 28
for: Organ
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from The Sleeping Beauty
for: Concert band
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from the Opera Eugene Onegin
for: Mezzo Soprano and Symphonic Band
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Violoncello und Klavier
Studienpartitur
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICH+TASTEN/BALGINSTR. QUINTETTE
Study score
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from the Opera Jeanne d'Arc
for: Mezzo Soprano and Symphonic Band
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Item no.: 1198562
Fassungen 1 und 2
Repertoire Explorer
for: Symphonic orchestra
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op. 42/3
for: Voice (low), piano
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for: Guitar
Music score
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Une Larme, 2eme Mazurka
for: 2 guitars
Ensemble score
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Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1345180
for Oboe and Military Band
for: Oboe and Symphonic Band
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symphonische Ballade op.78
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for: ORCHESTERWERKE GROSSES ORCHESTER
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Easy Piano Duets
for: Piano
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aus Streichquartett Nr. 1 D-Dur
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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für Orchester
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Revised edition
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für Orchester
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Repertoire Explorer
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Klassik
for: Alto saxophone, piano
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for: Organ
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Gm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
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F
for: Violin, piano
Instrumental Solo & Piano Accompaniment
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for: Piano
Piano Solo
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for: Recorder, piano
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Overture
for: Orchestra
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aus: Der Jahrmarkt von Sorotschinzy (unvollendete Oper
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Dm
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aus: Bilder einer Ausstellung
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from the Opera Mlada
for: Brass quintet
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