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: 2 violins, cello
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 3024
Polka
Neuausgabe nach dem Autograph
Kompletter Satz Bläser- und Schlagzeugstimmen
for: Symphonic orchestra
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 677771
for: Harp, piano
Item no.: 558443
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 433112
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Item no.: 129058
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 393457
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582668
für Flöte (Lehrmaterial) (Teaching material)
for: Flute
Item no.: 359797
9 Volumes in a Slipcase
for: Symphonic orchestra
9 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695842
for: Chamber ensemble
13 Study scores (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 695300
for: Flute, violin, guitar
Item no.: 130102
for: 2 classical guitars
Set of parts
Item no.: 694886
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 180175
Overture to the Operetta
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 374447
with marked and unmarked string parts
Henle Urtext Editions
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401516
with Urtext and Bärmann parts
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 333670
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 367054
for: Piano, orchestra
Book
Item no.: 348387
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 661684
for: Violin, organ
Organ score, solo part
Item no.: 367387
for: Flute
Music score
Item no.: 129591
Original version
for: Clarinet (B-flat), violin, viola, cello, piano left hand
Score, Single parts
Item no.: 562762
für zwei Klaviere zu vier Händen
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 662763
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 614666
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, Solo parts
Item no.: 636364
for: Violin, cello, piano (piano trio)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1689
with marked and unmarked string part
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 664646
for: String orchestra
Score
Item no.: 659386
for: Flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 278160
for: Oboe [flute/clarinet (B-flat)/violin], cello [viola/bassoon/clarinet (B-flat)], piano
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 5249
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 273622
for: Viola, piano
Item no.: 613316
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 401460
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 360592
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1582644
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1317297
for: Violin, horn, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 133706
Impromptu
for: Guitar
Music score
Item no.: 761499
for: Voice (medium), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 4071
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2034
“From the New World”
Revised new edition of score and orchestral parts
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 186850
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
for: 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass, piano
Score, Parts
Item no.: 675547
Based on the Sources
Wiener Urtext Edition
for: Clarinet, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 637573
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 586545
for: Clarinet (B-flat), piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 672403
for: Voice, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 143758
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 296490