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: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 666811
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Score
Item no.: 462675
String Symphony MWV N 11
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685844
for: Voice (baritone), piano
Piano reduction
Item no.: 286185
for Clarinet and Orchestra
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 347100
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 375526
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 376339
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 443182
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 428393
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 457127
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 487691
Tragic Symphony
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 565462
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 188663
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1043651
2. Die Linien des Lebens sind verschieden
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 742769
for: Harp, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 1715726
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 183974
Urtext based on the new Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 183919
Urtext
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 268476
(Urtext)
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 372692
String Symphony MWV N 11
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition
for: String orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685848
The first definitive author's version – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Cello, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 487265
The first definitive author's version – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Cello, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 487271
for: Harp, strings
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 624322
for: Cello solo, 2 violins, viola, cello, double bass (string quintet)
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 332403
for: String quintet
Single part Cello 2
Item no.: 626190
for: String quintet
Single part Cello 1
Item no.: 626073
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 622711
for: Flute, string orchestra
Single part (Flute solo)
Item no.: 430697
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868783
for: Soprano or Tenor Voice and Piano
Book
Item no.: 156628
for: Knabenchor (SA) mit 2 Sopran-Blockflöten, kleinem Schlagzeug und Klavier
Percussion score
Item no.: 354945
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1665565
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 745491
Urtext from the new Brahms Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: Chamber orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 695386
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Piano, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 685918
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 667278
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 667274
for: Symphonic orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 667276
Overture to the Opera
for: Symphonic orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 659072
Overture to the Opera
for: Symphonic orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 659070
for: Clarinet, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663279
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 658007
for: Symphonic orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 608528
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 586521
"The" piano concerto in Urtext – In Cooperation with G. Henle Verlag
for: Piano, orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 561469
violin concert
Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 554886
Urtext from the new Beethoven Complete Edition (G. Henle Verlag)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 695821
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