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.
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1349755
for: Violin, horn, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 133706
Impromptu
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 761499
for: Double bass, piano
Book
Item no.: 164474
for: Tuba [bass trombone]
Music score
Item no.: 101289
(from Préludes, Op. 28, No. 15)
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 741369
for: Voice, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 143758
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 475489
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4071
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2034
Based on the Sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 637573
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Violin, cello, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 472618
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 374531
A text-critical edition “based on the sources” of this work which was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 177713
“From the New World”
Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 186850
Urtext based on the Brahms Complete Edition of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765579
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 113695
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 108677
for: Symphonic orchestra
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 309033
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586545
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296490
for: 2 pianos
Music score
Item no.: 283745
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 672403
for: Organ
Item no.: 314361
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675197
for: 3 bassoons
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614900
Critical Edition of the Orchestral Music, Volume 2
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 176575
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1676675
Edition for Violoncello and Piano
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 331283
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 178117
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 296594
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 617092
authentic alternative flute part (instead of violin) available separately as HN 1297
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Piano score, parts (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 776879
The Best Pieces
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 212602
for: 2 solo voices (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 123406
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 576999
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 160619
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 630406
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 688644
for: 4 horns (quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 273247
pour contrebasse et piano (original pour arpeggione et piano)
Collection Richard Dubugnon
for: Double bass, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 664026
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 390209
for: Clarinet, piano
Music score
Item no.: 743254
for: Mezzo-Soprano or Baritone and Piano
Book
Item no.: 169729
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 624261
for: 4 cellos
Set of parts
Item no.: 190253
for: 2 clarinets
Parts (2)
Item no.: 349088
for: Symphonic orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 487840