“Where the heart does not enter; there can be no music” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What is hidden in the heart of Russian music? Pain and suffering, love and passion, a simple and vulnerable human soul, that never loses its pride and confidence. Browse our sheet music and scores, and explore for yourself the deepest reaches of the romantic Russian composers’ souls today.
As was very prevalent around Europe at the time, a strong national movement emerged in Russia at the beginning of the 19th century. The defeat of the Napoleonic armies in 1812 united the Russian nation, and created a great opportunity for the development of music and culture. The Russian National School was born from the synthesis of Russian folk music, exotic imports, and European musical influences, and was renowned for its profound emotions and its new and progressive harmonic, melodic and rhythmic structures. Michail Iwanowitsch Glinka is deemed by many to be the founder of the Russian National School, and he was closely followed by Alexander Sergejewitsch Dargomyschski.
“The Mighty Handful” or “The Group of Five” (also known as “The Novators” or “The New Russian School”) was an association of five prominent composers, whose aim was to create a specifically Russian style of music, and not to imitate older European models. The group was founded in 1856, and its comprised of Mili Balakirew, César Antonowitsch Cui, Alexander Borodin, Modest Petrovitsch Mussorgsky and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. The Might Handful taught many other great Russian composers, who also took up their style and supported their values, including the romantic composer Alexander Glazunov and the modernists Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The most important Russian composer of the 19th century is without a doubt Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky’s music reflects his profound, melancholy inner world, while embracing Russian folk music, in all its authentic beauty. The Symphonies by Tchaikovsky count amongst some of the best orchestral works of the 19th century, as do his trio of Ballets Sleeping Beauty , Swan Lake and The Nutcracker, with which the composer raised the whole form to a new level.
“Music is no illusion, but rather a revelation. Its triumphant power lies in the fact that it reveals to us beauties we find in no other sphere; and the apprehension of them is not transitory, but a perpetual reconcilement to life.” Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The last of the late Romantic Russian composers are Sergei Rachmaninoff and Alexander Scriabin. While Rachmaninoff generally remains true to the Russian musical legacy of the 19th century, there are many modern elements in Scriabin’s music, particularly in his use of harmony and instrumentation.
for: Piano Trio
Set of parts
Item no.: 198094
for: Symphonic orchestra
Book
Item no.: 169959
Fantasy Overture
Eulenburg Miniature Scores
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 391882
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 215227
für Gesang und Klavier
Ausgabe für Mittlere Stimme
for: Voice (medium), piano
Item no.: 136915
for: Piano
Item no.: 494405
Suite für Sprecher und Schulorchester
Partitur mit Text, Klavierauszug und Stimmen
for: Symphonic school orchestra
Score, Piano reduction, Solo parts
Item no.: 343176
aus "Bilder einer Ausstellung"
for: 4 clarinets (B-flat), bass clarinet (B-flat)
Score, parts (pdf download)
Item no.: 1486
from "Nutcracker"
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 749038
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 776225
Easiest Piano Pieces by P. I. Tchaikovsky
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 759440
für Orchester
Studienpartitur
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 1344019
for: Cello [viola], piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 649837
für Violoncello solo, Violine, Viola und Violoncello
Partitur und Stimmen
for: KAMMERMUSIK STREICHINSTRUMENTE QUARTETTE
Score, Parts
Item no.: 614729
The Monuments of Russian Sacred Music Serie IX, Vol. 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 297337
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 197555
Breitkopf Urtext
for: Violin, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 610155
Miscellaneous Pieces
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 357794
Orientalische Fantasie
for: Piano
Music score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 383272
Duet Arrangements for Intermediate to Late Intermediate Pianists
for: Piano 4 hands
Ensemble score
Item no.: 210258
Partitur und Stimmen (Kopiervorlagen)
for: Youth symphony orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 623099
aus: Kinderalbum, op. 39
for: Piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 2999
for: 3 recorders
Sheet music
Item no.: 1210657
Oper in 3 Akten
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 326421
12 ballet classics
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 624376
for: Violin
Music score
Item no.: 632105
op. 3 no. 2, op. 23, op. 32 (SR 58)
Rachmaninoff Practical Urtext Editions 3
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 676417
op. 3, op. 10, op. 16 (SR 25, SR 33, SR 40)
Rachmaninoff Practical Urtext Editions 2
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 676416
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 635616
für Flöte (Klavierbegleitung als PDF zum Ausdrucken)
for: Flute
Music score, CD
Item no.: 560090
Eulenburg Audio + Score
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score, CD
Item no.: 471793
Music Minus One
for: Violin
Solo part, online audio (playback)
Item no.: 350884
for: Violin, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 162279
for: Cello, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 163426
Gm
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1612508
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 630980
Ab
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1048276
for: 3 clarinets, bass clarinet
Score, Parts
Item no.: 678736
Für die Aufführung werden 2 Hefte benötigt
for: 2 pianos
Ensemble score
Item no.: 223943
for: Symphonic orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 214443
Original Version
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 139912
for: Piano, orchestra
Study score
Item no.: 287082
Piano Large Works
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 395092
Dushkin Transcriptions
for: Violin, piano
Music score
Item no.: 720933
for: Flute, piano
Book
Item no.: 993716
op. 35?W 54
for: Violin, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1544429
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1047063
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 631133
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