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: Organ
Item no.: 248250
for: Male Choir (ttbb/ttb/tb)
Item no.: 1707760
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Stimmen-Set
Item no.: 581167
for: 2 violins, viola, cello (string quartet)
Score, Set of parts
Item no.: 489199
for: Salon orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 645630
for: Concert band
Piano part for conductor, Parts
Item no.: 336438
for: Bassoon, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1031416
for: Tuba, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 1009201
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 478920
for: Violin, piano
Item no.: 478917
for: Cello, piano
Item no.: 478914
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 336590
for: Mixed Choir(satb/sab)
Item no.: 1710240
for: Concert Band
Item no.: 1709921
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 487116
(Elsaß) / "Es tanzt ein Butzemann" (Thüringen) Kanon
for: Frauen- und Kinderchor (SMezA)
Choir score
Item no.: 741719
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1043460
Abendsegen und Traum-Pantomime aus der Oper "Hänsel und Gretel"
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 725350
for: Violin
Single part(n)
Item no.: 138703
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 492577
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 492576
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 492575
Fragment aus Goethes "Harzreise im Winter" (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 157483
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 178980
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676603
Overture to Heinrich Joseph von Collin's Tragedy – Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 431124
nach der Henle-Gesamtausgabe (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 310661
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Violin, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 430550
Triple Concerto
Urtext of the New Complete Edition
for: Violin, cello, piano, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 486385
Urtext based on the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Piano, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 274851
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 176046
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 209355
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 261721
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 330108
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 330109
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 212679
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 185170
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part
Item no.: 429009
for: Symphonic orchestra
Single part
Item no.: 376035
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 294086
A text-critical edition “based on the sources” of this work which was first published by Breitkopf & Härtel in 1885
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 223574
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332522
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 332515
for: Piano, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 687378
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 444195
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 217369
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 578424
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