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: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 356506
for: Cello, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 256532
for: Piano
Music score
Item no.: 486235
for: Voice (high), piano
Score
Item no.: 356150
for: 2–3 recorders
Item no.: 407664
for: Voice, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 1678042
Rhythm Parts
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 919189
GIA Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1151515
O holy Night
for: 4 clarinets (B-flat)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 1631987
for: Voice, organ
Music score
Item no.: 479977
C
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1589671
F
for: Piano
Piano Solo
Item no.: 1045611
für Schulorchester
for: Youth string orchestra
Score, Parts
Item no.: 272350
Musizierstunde~Blaesermusik In Kleinen Gruppen 139
for: BLECH / HBL QUARTETT
Item no.: 161729
for: 4 trumpets, horn, 4 trombones, tuba
Score, Parts
Item no.: 659873
Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht
für flexibles Ensemble (Stimmen als PDF zum Ausdrucken auf DVD)
for: Flexible ensemble
Score, Solo part(s), DVD
Item no.: 662404
"Christkindlmesse"
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts (Strings)
Item no.: 776110
Partitur und sieben Einzelstimmen
Sonderausgabe für Freunde des C-Melody-Saxophons
for: 4 saxophones (SATBar)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 647110
for: 5 Saxophone (SATTB/AATTB)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 469497
for: Voice (soprano), violin, piano
Piano score, parts
Item no.: 639065
for: Saxophone, piano
Music score
Item no.: 490094
Version for choir of equal voices and chamber ensemble
for: Women's choir (1 part), chamber ensemble
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 687452
Blockflöten A 4 Nr. 1
for: 4 recorders (SATB quartet)
Score, Parts
Item no.: 696968
for: Flute [violin], guitar
Ensemble score
Item no.: 373487
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), organ
Item no.: 246287
Eulenburg Studienpartituren
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 1688191
O du Fröhliche für Orgel
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 377095
for: 5 brass winds
Score, Parts
Item no.: 486973
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 1202627
für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel oder für Orgel allein
Nach dem Urtext herausgegeben und mit einer Orgelbegleitung versehen von Albert Kupp
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Set of parts
Item no.: 336058
Die autographen Fassungen und die zeitgenössischen Überlieferungen
Denkmäler der Musik in Salzburg 4
Book (softcover)
Item no.: 246475
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 589044
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SSAATTBB)
Choir score
Item no.: 1653186
for: Voice, organ
Music score
Item no.: 1203521
Blasorchester
for: Mixed choir, concert band
Sheet music
Item no.: 587995
for: Oboe, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291805
for: Descant (soprano) recorder, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291801
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Sheet music
Item no.: 1291796
for: Alto saxophone, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 592973
for: Voice (soprano), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 238048
for: Voice (tenor), orchestra
Piano reduction
Item no.: 238042
Christmas pieces
Volume 2
for: Organ
Music score
Item no.: 610126
Brass Band
for: Brass band
Sheet music
Item no.: 595392
"in nativitate Domini"
Orchestral version
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Study score
Item no.: 610790
Solo für C, Bb, F oder Eb-Instrument mit Blasorchester
Moderne Bearbeitung
for: Melody instrument (C/B-flat/E-flat/F), concert band
Conductors part (C), Parts
Item no.: 487294
Muzika Ensemble Music
for: Flexible Instrumentation
Score, Parts
Item no.: 560829
for: Alto flute, piano
Piano score, solo part
Item no.: 993969
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 684984