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.
Opéra-comique en 3 actes | Reprintausgabe
for: Gesang und Orchester
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1650925
for: Violin, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 615205
for: Eb Saxophone
Buch
Item no.: 912572
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1020700
String Symphony MWV N 9
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685839
for: String orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340242
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189702
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 582825
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 466302
Urtext based on the New Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 432660
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 373749
Klavierkonzert
nach der Henle-Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 341649
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 340298
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 327356
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 429006
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 328285
Urtext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326263
Urtext (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326262
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290080
(Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 290079
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 278499
Version of 1851
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229338
Version of 1851
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229336
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 210420
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189524
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189521
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 185174
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 185169
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 184213
“From the New World”
Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 170074
Overture to the Music to Shakespeare's Comedy
Breitkopf Urtext Edition
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 166975
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 159029
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 154147
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 147310
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 770628
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 622857
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 498864
Entr'actes D 797 Nos. 1, 3a and 5 [from Op. 26]
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 367218
String Symphony MWV N 7
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 350136
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1011298
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 688939
(Reprint)
Item no.: 619050
for: Mixed choir (SSAATBB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 689966
for: 2 pianos
Study score
Item no.: 1541358
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1541070
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1540951
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 1540902
for: Women's choir, organ
Score
Item no.: 1148346
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